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
1
Assessment
Evaluate project eligibility and resource adequacy
2
Registration &
Certification
Navigate carbon credit standards and methodologies
3
Audits &
Issuance
Support through validation, verification, certification reviews, and credit Issuance
4
Capacity
Building
Equip clients with the knowledge and tools to manage the carbon credit process independently
5
Monetization &
Revenue
Optimization
Guide developers in selling carbon credits
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
