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When humans clear-cut the forests and drain the marshes, the local climate changes.
— Theophrastus, father of ecology, c. 300 BC |
Better to be less wrong now
than conventionally right
— and audited later.
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Theophrastus didn’t wait for a 400-page methodology. He used his eyes. When the textbooks are wrong, you don’t need to be perfect — you need to be less wrong. Since 2011 we stopped asking “is this perfect?” and started asking: is it directionally correct, structurally sound, and actually happening?
Additionality treated as a yes/no gate is logically tidy and frequently wrong. So NEEDC splits the claim — and prices only the part we can stand behind today.
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B2 · Sold now
A pre-compliance forward sale on embodied carbon avoided vs the LETI Band D benchmark. Measured, EPD-verified, priced at a 10% integrity buffer below the gross saving. Zero VAT under HMRC RCB 7.
The part we can price today.
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B1 · Held back
The permanence reserve — the harder, honest part. Unsold until the building’s actual demolition & recycling, verified by drone, GPS and a five-gate chain of custody no single party controls. A Rolling Reduction Credit only once reality has happened.
Paid only when it’s real.
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We’d rather sell you a smaller claim we can defend than a bigger one we’re hoping holds up.
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Amazon Cividate al Piano · real building, real EPD, fully disclosed
57,458 m² GFA |
956 kg/m² vs 1,180 |
10,320 net tradable units |
£49 /t OTC |
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This is probably the last generation of the market that gets to hold inflated numbers and have nobody check. Scope 3 disclosure, ICVCM and CORSIA scrutiny are all tightening — and “logically justifiable” isn’t the same as actually true.
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We’ll walk you through the full Cividate al Piano numbers — real building, real EPD, real ambiguity.
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Best regards,
Alexander Morgan
Director · Circular Clean Wave Ltd · NEEDC
+44 7308 139 770 · [email protected]
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