Carbon 4 Safe Water: Global Water Center’s Carbon Credit Program
A transparent, step-by-step approach to funding rural water systems through carbon finance
Many rural water systems fail due to insufficient funding
Our Carbon Credit Program, Carbon 4 Safe Water, offers an innovative solution to this challenge. We help project developers navigate the carbon markets to generate sustainable funding to maintain and scale safe water systems.
We provide 100% transparency and guide you through every step of the carbon credit process, ensuring that over time, your team can manage the process independently.
How Our Carbon Credit Program Works
Assessment
Evaluate project eligibility and resource adequacy.
Registration & Certification
Navigate carbon credit standards and methodologies (Gold Standard, Verra, etc.).
Audits & Issuance
Support through validation, verification, certification reviews, and credit Issuance
Monetization & Revenue Optimization
Guide developers in selling carbon credits.
Capacity Building
Equip clients with the knowledge to manage the entire process independently over time.
What Sets Us Apart
- 100% Transparency: We provide clear, step-by-step guidance with direct participation by the project developer—no hidden costs or processes.
- End-to-End Support: From initial assessment to credit monetization, we stand by you.
- Long-Term Sustainability: Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job—empowering your team to run the process independently.
- Industry Expertise: Our team has decades of experience in carbon finance and safe water systems.
Scaling Carbon-Financed Water Solutions
Carbon 4 Safe Water is driving impact through partnerships with leading organizations, expanding safe water access while reducing carbon emissions.
Key Partnership Highlights:
- Water Mission – A portfolio of safe drinking water projects in Kenya & Malawi, reaching 200K+ people
- COVA – 1,000 new projects in Central America annually at scale, 3.7M tCO2e reductions by 2033
- Uduma – 700 water points in West Africa, serving 200K users
- Grundfos – Exploring water-utility scale opportunities (e.g. non-revenue water)
- CAP (Carbon Aggregator Platform) program in East Africa – Pioneering initiative to pool resources across small drinking water project developers, technology platforms, business models, and geographic locations to scale safe water projects for small and emerging project developers that otherwise cannot access the Voluntary Carbon Markets for carbon-based financing
Partner Success Stories
Global Water Center’s Carbon Credit Program has the potential to give us the financial stability and visibility to scale our safe water portfolio faster than we could have alone. Their expertise made the process seamless, and we highly recommend them to any organization seeking sustainable funding. This collaboration has been a game-changer for reaching more communities with safe drinking water.
Wes Meier
Co-Founder & CEO
COVA
