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with Infinite POSSIBILITIES

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Today’s consumers are moreenvironmentally minded. Is your brand keeping up?

93% The percentage of

consumers who say they

have a responsibility to

protect the planet.*

*NBC Universal, 2011

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.

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.

Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility is an all-consuming challenge. We have solutions.

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We are borrowing from our children’s futures.Consumers want solutions.

“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”

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.

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1 YEARof the AVERAGE AMERICAN

CONSUMER’S EMISSIONS

is equivalent to:

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RUNNING A COMPUTER FOR

41YEARS

2,427PAIRS

OF SHOES

132FLIGHTS

fromNEW YORK

to MIAMI

3,137GALLONSOF GASOLINE

11,650LOADS

OF LAUNDRY

528,300CUPS

OF COFFEE

9,060STEAKDINNERS

875PAIRS OF

JEANS

* GE CO2 Usage Data 2013

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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:

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.

climate community biodiversity

Sustainability Solutions with a powerful PLUS

TRIPLEGOLDREDD+

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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.

Vanishing species are nature’s reminder

Your carbon offset or biodiversity offset purchase will help support

Bornean Orangutan.

19SPECIESdisappear from the planet…every day. *

*UN Environment Programme

Orangutan Foundation International

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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.

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.

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 forest-

dependent communities benefits such as health, education and more.

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.

Carbon Credit or Biodiversity Offset Program to Match Your Needs.

Wholesale Credit & Offset

Programs

Credit & Offset Programs

Co-Branded Credit & Offset

Credit Cards

The

Multi-Brand

Platform

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36/F Tower Two, Times Square

1 Matheson Street

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

+852-2682-6321

www.infinite-earth.com

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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 StocksPrograms 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 DevelopmentInfiniteEARTH’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 educa-

tion, a community staffed Park & Fire Ranger Service and micro-credit programs.

Wildlife ConservationThe 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 En-

dangered 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.

Five principles we live by. REDD+

Carbon neutral and sustainability are simply not enough. The future generations of this planet deserve more. Your customers demand more.

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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.

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.

37m acres are deforested every

year across the globe.*

Flagship Source for REDD+Carbon Credits.Global deforestation continues at the alarmingrate of 1 acre per minute.

*UN FAO

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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 (148.26

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.

98% of Indonesian forests will be

cleared by 2022 for palm oil

plantations.*

Special Offset Solutions for Palm Oil Users and Producers

*UNEP 2007

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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.

Biodiversity Offset Programs

50%Percentage decline in the

wild orangutan population

in less than 20 years.*

“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.

*Orangutan Foundation International

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36/F Tower Two, Times Square

1 Matheson Street

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

+852-2682-6321

www.infinite-earth.com