ProFile: Ben Vitale

BV: The biggest aspect that I brought to Conservation International was in the carbon-financing area. [The Climate Trust purchases exclusive rights to metric tons of carbon dioxide that are reduced as a result of new projects that reduce energy usage, process carbon emissions, or sequester carbon in forests and soils. In order to fund a project, we must determine that carbon financing is essential to a project's implementation. By making a project financially viable, we claim credit for generated offsets, which would not have occurred without carbon financing.]