National/Federal

Risks and challenges

Climate change will significantly affect all countries and economies. They are all vulnerable to the physical consequences of extreme weather events brought about by climate change, such as droughts, coastal flooding, fire, food security and an increase in insect-borne disease. National/federal governments have a vital role to play in mitigating climate change’s impact on their country and ensuring that international greenhouse gas reduction targets are met, through the regulation of industry emissions. This can be done through a mandatory, cap-and-trade programme across the entire economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

What can GCX do for you?

Advising on policy
GCX can help you develop your greenhouse gas policy, involving international negotiations on carbon-emission reduction targets and amounts. We also offer services to frame national reduction legislation to ensure that it stimulates, rather than stifles, industry.

Adaptation: Climate-change response strategies
Adaptation involves the adjustment of systems in order to respond to actual or expected weather events or their physical manifestation. These adjustments mitigate the harm or exploit the beneficial opportunities that arise from these events. GCX will work with your government to assess the effect that climate change will have on your territory, including reports detailing the impact on your country. Working with you, we will set goals and implement solutions to minimise the effects of these severe weather events on your country’s infrastructure and service-delivery mechanisms and thus the health of the population.

Carbon footprinting/Greenhouse gas inventory assessment:
GCX will determine your carbon footprint by undertaking a full greenhouse gas inventory of your country. Consequently, you will have a comprehensive understanding of your country’s emissions, which will enable you to develop the most effective strategy to reduce them.

Efficiency:
Through determining your carbon footprint and a business-case energy efficiency audit, GXC will assess your country’s carbon emissions and help you to determine what steps your government needs to take to reduce energy costs and increase productivity. GCX will then work with you to set targets and budgets, and implement reductions and achieve your cost-cutting goals, which include education campaigns to engrain climate-change awareness in your country’s culture and to ensure that employees support internal initiatives. GCX will also undertake to monitor your emissions on a continuous basis. The journey towards becoming a low-carbon country also offers significant PR and marketing opportunities that can be harnessed to differentiate your country as a climate-change leader.

Developing carbon projects:
GCX specialises in finding and creating greenhouse gas emission-reduction projects. It also trades in emissions credits in both voluntary and mandatory markets. With highly skilled and specialised international staff, GCX offers project owners end-to-end services throughout the emissions-reduction process. These services include initial investigations into project feasibility and the development of comprehensive project documentation, as well as guidance through the approval process. GCX is also able to offer integrated project financing.

GCX has established, specialist knowledge in the following sectors:

Generating renewable energy

• Biomass plants
• Mini-hydro
• Solar farms
• Waste-to-energy
• Wind power

Carbon sequestration

• Avoided deforestation
• Improving forest management
• Reforestation
• Soil carbon capture

Reducing industrial emissions

• Coal-mine methane
• Efficient energy usage
• Fuel switch projects

Methane capture projects

• Animal manure
• Landfills
• Sewage