Carbon Credits & Offset Projects by the Numbers: Baselines, Buffers, Vintages, Issuance & Cost per Tonne
Follow a carbon credit from the project baseline to its retirement: reductions, deductions, vintages, project cash flow and a buyer's cost per tonne, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you follow carbon credits from a fictional methane-capture project to a buyer's retirement ledger. You turn monitoring data into baseline and project emissions, apply leakage, uncertainty and buffer deductions with ROUNDUP and ROUNDDOWN, and date monitoring periods and issuance with EDATE and WORKDAY. You add up credits by vintage with SUMIFS and DATE, build the project's cash flow, NPV and break-even credit price, and weight a buyer's portfolio by tonnes with SUMPRODUCT. You keep an oldest-vintage-first ledger with SMALL and INDEX/MATCH, stress forward contracts with XLOOKUP and finish with a dashboard chart.
Lessons
- Baselines vs Project Emissions: Reductions in Tonnes of CO2e Pro
- From Reductions to Credits: Leakage, Uncertainty, Buffer & Whole Tonnes Pro
- Monitoring Periods & Vintages: End Dates, Issuance Dates & Credits by Vintage Year Pro
- Project Economics: Cash Flow, NPV & the Break-Even Credit Price Pro
- The Buyer's Portfolio: Avoidance vs Removal, Weighted Prices & Quality Scores Pro
- The Retirement Ledger: Balances by Vintage & Oldest-Vintage-First Pro
- Forward Contracts & Delivery Risk: Shortfalls and Cost per Delivered Tonne Pro
- Portfolio Dashboard: Inventory by Vintage & Cost per Tonne Retired Pro