Now buy voluntary carbon offset certificates on Facebook with your credit card

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 30, 2011 -- Date: June 30, 2011

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: CARBONyatra, India’s leading voluntary carbon market provider of news, information, services and analysis has announced the launch of its carbon offset certificate e-commerce shop on Facebook enabling users to purchase voluntary carbon offsets directly with their credit cards.

“We have integrated our Facebook community page with the e-commerce shop allowing users on Facebook to seamlessly buy carbon offsets to neutralize their carbon footprint from anywhere in the world. We were also the first company to introduce a carbon footprint calculator in India,” said Kishore Butani, Founder, CARBONyatra.com.

Over 200,000 verified carbon offsets are available for sale from various projects in India. The e-commerce tool is the first such portal on Facebook which offers carbon reduction projects from India and is available on Renewable Energy Facebook community page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Renewable-Energy#!/pages/Renewable-Energy/149703108402843

All the carbon offset certificates are targeted at the non-compliance sector and are verified as per the ISO 14064 VER guidelines. Users of Facebook can go directly to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Renewable-Energy/149703108402843?sk=app_138996027389 and begin purchasing the offset certificates.

All the VERs or carbon offsets are registered with the Markit Environmental Registry and have unique serial numbers.

Please email khb@carbonyatra.com for more information.

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