Increased educational attainment among marginalized girls in low-income countries strengthens life-course agency, including delayed marriage, informed family planning, and expanded economic participation. This transformation systematically affects future GHG emissions through two countervailing pathways:

1. Emission Reduction Drivers

• Reduced maternal and child mortality → Lower under-5 mortality and fewer high-risk pregnancies

• Improved child health outcomes → Higher nutritional adequacy and survival rates past age five

• Delayed family formation → Later first births and smaller completed family sizes

2. Emission Increase Drivers

• Elevated individual consumption → Increased energy and resource use associated with higher incomes

• Urban livelihood shifts → Migration to cities with intensified economic activity

• Extended lifespan → Modest rise in lifetime emissions from longer life expectancy

The multi-generational emission reductions from smaller descendant cohorts demonstrably outweigh individual-level increases. Katla Carbon quantifies this net effect while adhering to ethical imperatives.

No. Ensuring the education of girls provides knowledge and awareness of rights, which leads to girls’ empowerment and increased agency to determine the course of their own lives. That includes increased ability to make informed decisions about their own sexual and reproductive health.

Girls who are excluded from education often become victims of early and forced child marriage which often denies girls autonomy over their bodies and futures.

We stand firm in our conviction that the number of children a woman has is her decision.

Yes, it is much lower. Especially in marginalized, rural communities where people live in extreme poverty. They are the ones who have contributed the least to climate change, but bear the brunt of the negative impacts.

First and foremost, we have to lower emissions in high-income countries. That should not, however, minimise the importance of supporting climate solutions in low-income countries. Especially solutions that increase the resilience of vulnerable communities to tackle the negative effects of the climate crisis.

Channeling climate finance to low-income countries is foundational for climate justice and at the heart of the Katla Carbon model.

Carbon credits must never replace real climate action—they should only complement genuine emissions reductions. When used as a substitute, they risk exacerbating climate change. Organizations must achieve aggressive, measurable reductions in their own emissions and, in addition, support high-impact climate action beyond their value chain to address both residual and historic emissions.

Our rigorous project standards ensure integrity:
Upon completion, all Katla Carbon projects go through a verification process by ISO 14065:2013-accredited bodies and are audited against:

·       ISO 14064-2:2019 requirements, and in addition

·       Enhanced criteria, including additionality, permanence, and safeguards against leakage

Unlike reductions within an organization’s own operations, carbon credits offer a unique opportunity for an organization to collaborate on climate action with impact that extends far beyond emissions. When carefully selected, carbon credits can:

·       Accelerate measurable progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, against the UN’s specific set of SDG 169 targets and 230 indicators.

·       Uphold human rights through ethical partnerships with local organizations and communities on projects that advance human rights through tangible means.

·       Increase adaptation and build resilience for those most marginalized, least responsible, yet hardest hit by the climate crises.

If an organization chooses to compensate its residual or historic emissions, why settle for anything less than credits that deliver this depth of positive change?

The project period reflects the number of years it takes to acquire a primary and/or secondary education. The emission reductions are quantified over a 50 year period, starting once girls complete their educational attainment. The climate impact continues growing, well beyond the quantified period.

While many climate solutions face fundamental challenges in proving additionality, guaranteeing permanence, and preventing leakage, girls' education delivers inherent, built-in climate integrity:

✓ Automatic additionality - Every year of schooling creates measurable, new reductions that wouldn't exist otherwise
✓ Built-in permanence - The intergenerational impact of educated women continues compounding across decades
✓ Systemic leakage prevention - By transforming entire communities rather than shifting emissions elsewhere

This is climate action that grows more powerful with time.

Katla Carbon’s in-country partners are civil society organizations (CSOs) with decades experience in running programs that ensure girls’ access to the educational system in their respective communities.

They are experts at implementing. Katla Carbon is an expert at quantfying. Together we acellerate this necessary and wonderful climate solution.