Company Information
Carbon Credited Farming PLC (CCF PLC) evolved from a previous private company in 2005 and targeted the development of agroforestry assets, leading with a nursery programme to cultivate a sufficient stock of green oil trees to supply large plantations. In March 2009 CCF PLC was established due to the broadening of opportunities for investment in green oils and other sources of renewable energy. CCF PLC is building on its established global relationships in the renewable energy sector to develop an integrated bio-energy company based primarily on green oil plantations. The conservation of vulnerable and important ecosystems is another objective of CCF, both for environmental and financial reasons – as the world becomes more attuned to the need for “offset credits” such as carbon credits the market for agrobusiness resources is developing.
CCF PLC operates entirely in ‘Green’, environmentally responsible markets, developing renewable energy sources. The main focus to date has been on Green Oil from Jatropha due to its promising capacity to provide a non-food oil capable of use as a source of renewable energy. CCF is also actively developing other high- yielding green energy sources, such as pongamia, sorghum, and palm. Based on recognition of the long-term financial and economic benefits of renewable resources, CCF has taken considerable care to target crops that do not compete with food producers or which through integration and technology transfer enhance food and cash crop production but ultimately focusing on financially lucrative green oils that generate sufficient energy to justify large scale production.
The renewable energy sector is poised for growth and CCF will participate through its active involvement in the production of essential biofuels. Established relationships in regions with optimal conditions for developing alternative biofuels present the opportunity to play a meaningful role in profitably developing the biofuels market and simultaneously conserving other biological assets. It is an elemental principle of CCF that investment in sustainable and renewable resources, and the associated recognition of fair market value and value-added processes, is wholly consistent with attractive financial returns. Private sector involvement in the development of renewable resources is the only basis on which significant advances toward economic sustainability can be achieved. Accordingly, CCF PLC is operating along the full length of the renewable energy value chain.
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mportantly, CCF has adopted a corporate social responsibility ethic that involves bringing environment-based carbon credits (and other “offset” credits) to market in such a way that benefits a charitable foundation whose purpose is to help rural communities worldwide through fair and sustainable commerce alongside the development of critical infrastructure facilitating their integration into the global economy. The adoption of an inclusive model for value creation contributes directly to CCF’s ability to operate effectively in countries that will play a major role in supplying the world’s green oil requirements. The firm’s management and operational expertise is based primarily in the equatorial and sub-equatorial countries that will be critical to expanded production of biofuel feedstocks.
CCF’s extensive commercial relationships throughout the world focused on the production and distribution of renewable energy, especially biofuels, mean that the company’s operational activities embrace several key agribusiness disciplines, such as plant genetics, organic fertilisers and pesticides, low impact irrigation, and farming best practices. Additional areas of expertise include transportation logistics, marketing, distribution, financial management, and community relations. As an integrated global green energy business CCF’s global management team, local networks, asset base, expertise, and investment philosophy present it with the opportunity to participate and to profit from expanding global biofuel production, an acknowledged economic imperative.
