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2 Today s consumers are more environmentally minded. Is your brand keeping up? Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility is an all-consuming challenge. We have solutions. For companies seeking to offset their environmental footprint, InfiniteEARTH offers a wide range of carbon credits and biodiversity offset solutions that add an active environmental component to your brand story. Our programs are backed by the world s largest avoided deforestation conservation initiative, measured by total emissions offsets. Our Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve project emissions of over 130 million tonnes the equivalent of removing over one million cars from the world s highways every year for the next 30 years. 93% The percentage of consumers who say they have a responsibility to protect the planet.* InfiniteEARTH can tailor carbon credit or environmental offset programs that drive brand loyalty and help defray program costs. Through our rewards programs, consumers can directly engage in InfiniteEARTH s wildlife conservation, forest preservation and social development efforts. *NBC Universal, 2011

3 We are borrowing from our children s futures. Consumers want solutions. We consume today at a rate 1.5 times greater than the Earth s capacity to regenerate the resources we use. By the year 2050, we will need the equivalent of two Earths to support our insatiable demand for natural resources. In an industrialized nation, the carbon footprint of one person can exceed 19 tonnes per year. Putting that into perspective the United States will be responsible for emitting more carbon than a person living in Tanzania will in an entire lifetime. Our efforts to reduce consumption will never completely eliminate the heavy demands we place on the planet. But we can compensate through replacement with environmental offset initiatives. That s where InfiniteEARTH s expertise and leadership can help. Our solutions empower consumers and increase long-term brand relevance through consumer-funded customer loyalty programs at a time when consumers are more mindful that individual choices can have a collective environmental impact. Let us remember, always, that we are the consumers. By exercising free choice, by choosing what to buy, what not to buy, we have the power, collectively, to change the ethics of the business of industry. We have the potential to exert immense power for good we each carry it with us, in our purses, cheque books, and credit cards. -Jane Goodall, A Reason for Hope

4 RUNNING A COMPUTER FOR 41 YEARS 1 YEAR of the AVERAGE AMERICAN CONSUMER S EMISSIONS is equivalent to: 1.87 BILLION TEXT MESSAGES 11,650 LOADS OF LAUNDRY 9,060 STEAK DINNERS 19 Tonnes of C0 2 * 1,750 ROOM NIGHTS AT A FIVE-STAR HOTEL 875 PAIRS OF JEANS 3,137 GALLONS OF GASOLINE 2,427 PAIRS OF SHOES 132 FLIGHTS from NEW YORK to MIAMI 528,300 CUPS OF COFFEE * GE CO2 Usage Data 2013

5 Sustainability Solutions with a powerful PLUS InfiniteEARTH s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve was the first forest carbon project in the world to receive triple-gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard (CCBA), by demonstrating exceptionality in three distinct areas: climate community biodiversity In fact, we set the standard for REDD+ by developing the industry s first independently certified forest carbon accounting methodology and then delivered the world s first independently validated REDD+ project under the Voluntary Carbon Standard. We offer a wide range of programs including: Carbon-offset co-branded credit cards Corporate social environmental responsibility programs Consumer-involvement loyalty points programs Special offset and credit programs for palm-oil users and producers And coming soon -- the world s first multi-brand rewards platform where consumer purchases earn rewards points redeemable for consumer involvement in a variety of social development and conservation projects. REDD+ TRIPLE GOLD

6 Vanishing species are nature s reminder Your carbon offset or biodiversity offset purchase will help support Bornean Orangutan. The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation focuses its efforts in the 64,000 hectares (160,000 acres) Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve in Indonesia, which InfiniteEARTH developed and manages. Rimba Raya s ecosystem forms a critical buffer zone to the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to the world famous Camp Leakey Orangutan Research Center and one of the world s largest and last wild populations of endangered orangutans. InfiniteEARTH and the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation are working closely to protect and preserve this iconic endangered species through their ongoing financial support of Orangutan Foundation International funding made possible by the sale of InfiniteEARTH carbon credits and environmental offsets. 19 SPECIES disappear from the planet every day. * Orangutan Foundation International *UN Environment Programme

7 Carbon Credit or Biodiversity Offset Program to Match Your Needs. Wholesale Credit & Offset Programs InfiniteEARTH markets triple-gold certified REDD+ carbon credits on a wholesale basis for organizations seeking to address their carbon emissions footprint with a world-class and highly accredited offset initiative. Credit & Offset Programs For marketers facing carbon and biodiversity footprint challenges unique to their industry, InfiniteEARTH markets wholesale offsets and credits to mitigate special issues such as deforestation and associated biodiversity loss related to palm oil and paper & packaging industries. Co-Branded Credit & Offset Credit Cards Cardholders will receive a co-branded corporate credit card. Purchases earn reward points redeemable for planting trees; for the adoption, feed and care of orangutans; and for providing local forestdependent communities benefits such as health, education and more. The Multi-Brand Platform The world s first multi-brand rewards platform where consumer purchases earn rewards points redeemable for consumer involvement in a variety of social development and conservation projects.

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10 REDD+ Five principles we live by. Carbon neutral and sustainability are simply not enough. The future generations of this planet deserve more. Your customers demand more. Our current global population of 7 billion will double to 13 billion by the year 2090, all in the span of one person s lifetime. And, with nearly 4 billion people in the developing world moving from subsistence to mass consumerism, it is unrealistic to think we can slow the rate of global consumption, let alone reduce it. While we agree wholeheartedly with reduction efforts, we believe that, in the absence of immediate viable solutions, we should at least attempt to offset what we cannot reduce. To that end, we ve challenged ourselves to focus on solutions that replace more than we have taken and that produce immediate results TODAY. Sustainable Forest Management REDD+ projects pursue long-term strategies for addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and degradation. Such long-term programs include providing fuel efficient cook-stoves, development of bio-efficient farming systems and other strategies for the sustainable management of existing forest stocks. Enhancement of Native Carbon Stocks Programs to maximize carbon preservation levels include reforestation of degraded areas with native cash crop species and other strategies aimed at enhancing existing natural forest stocks and its sustainable use and management by local communities. Community Development InfiniteEARTH s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation funds a number of programs, many staffed by local villagers, including delivering access to clean water, health-for-conservation exchanges, early childhood education, a community staffed Park & Fire Ranger Service and micro-credit programs. Wildlife Conservation The Tropical Peat Swamp Forests of Borneo are one of the few remaining natural habitats of the endangered orangutan, which is listed on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Endangered Species. The Rimba Raya Reserve provides the largest privately managed reserve in the world for the release of wild born, previously captive orangutans back into their natural habitat.

11 Flagship Source for REDD+ Carbon Credits. Global deforestation continues at the alarming rate of 1 acre per minute. While there may still be skeptics about global warming, nobody denies that mass deforestation of our tropical rainforests is happening on a global scale and at an unprecedented rate. Every year, the world loses 15 million hectares/150,000 km2 (37 million acres/58,000 square miles) of forest lands. This loss contributes to over 1 billion tonnes of carbon output, the single largest contributor of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases. 37m acres are deforested every year across the globe.* The ancient Tropical Peat Swamp Forests of Borneo not only store the world s highest densities of carbon but also host some of the world s most biodiverse habitats, with as many as 1,000 plant and animal species per square kilometer. The Rimba Raya Reserve protects 640 square kilometers (250 square miles) of these rare forests and provides a patrolled buffer zone between the Tanjung Puting National Park and the encroaching palm oil industry. *UN FAO

12 Special Offset Solutions for Palm Oil Users and Producers 98% of Indonesian forests will be cleared by 2022 for palm oil plantations.* InfiniteEARTH s BeyondSustainable Palm Oil Offset Certificates provide carbon replacement offsets to the environmental footprint associated with the production of palm oil. How the program works: One BeyondSustainable Palm Oil Offset Certificate offsets the environmental footprint of 1 tonne of palm oil. The environmental footprint is calculated in terms of carbon emissions related to deforestation and other environmental impacts related to the area of natural forest lost due to conversion. Carbon calculations are based on an average of 60 tonnes of CO2e per hectare ( tonnes of CO2e per acre) per year divided by an average production rate of 4 tonnes of palm oil per hectare per year. This amounts to a total of 15 tonnes of CO2e per tonne of palm oil produced. Forest area loss calculations are based on 1 hectare per 4 tonnes of palm oil production per year. Therefore, one BeyondSustainable Palm Oil Offset Certificate offsets 1 tonne of palm oil and pays for the conservation of 2,500 m2 (1/4 hectare or nearly 2/3 acre) of biodiverse tropical forest for one year and for the emissions avoidance of 15 tonnes of CO2e. *UNEP 2007

13 Biodiversity Offset Programs InfiniteEARTH s Biodiversity Offsets underwrite the conservation efforts of 1 hectare (2.54 acres) of biodiverse tropical forest containing over 100 endangered, threatened or at-risk species, including the highly endangered Bornean Orangutan. Habitat loss is the primary cause of species extinction. Orangutans are particularly vulnerable. As an arboreal species, they rely of a vast network of forest canopy in order to search for jungle fruit. Many are now isolated on fragmented island forests surrounded by a sea of palm oil. Many will starve to death while fruiting trees lie just beyond their reach. InfiniteEARTH only receives carbon credits from part of the 64,000 hectares (158,150 acres) that constitutes the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve. A large portion of the reserve lies outside the official carbon accounting area, which means we subsidize the conservation of that additional area. Your purchase of InfiniteEARTH Biodiversity Offsets ensures that this iconic species has a safe habitat into which some three hundred wild born orphaned orangutans at the Orangutan Foundation International Care Center can eventually be released back into the wild. Rimba Raya is one of the most important Orangutan conservation projects in the world. It represents nothing less than the promise of survival for the endangered Orangutan. -Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas. 50% Percentage decline in the wild orangutan population in less than 20 years.* *Orangutan Foundation International

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