Apologies for cross postings. OCTO is hosting a webinar onVerra’s standards for sustainability, resilience, and carbon on March 16, and one of the topic’s will be Verra’s standard for plastic waste reduction. Please join us for this webinar and circulate to others that may be interested. OCTO’s other upcoming webinars (marine conservation and management-focused) are listed below, and if you’re interested in receiving webinar notifications for all of our webinars, you can sign up athttps://octogroup.org/programs/octo-webinars-and-updates/.
Presented by: Sinclair Vincent, Anna Mortimer, and Kristen Linscott of Verra
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 16, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC
Description: Verra is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides standards that drive investment toward high-impact activities addressing environmental and social challenges across the globe. The rigorous process to meet Verra’s standards include independent verification and issuance of claims and credits. Verra’s standards are employed by a broad variety of governments, corporations and other private actors, and NGOs around the world. This webinar will present Verra’s programs in climate and sustainability focusing on standards in Blue Carbon to sequester carbon dioxide, Coastal Resilience to improve protection of human and environmental assets, and Plastic Waste Reduction to reduce waste ending up in the environment and incentivize recycling.
Sponsor: OCTO
Register:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Gq6dg48SSi8ygd860g9dA
Best wishes,
Sarah Carr
