Positive Change through Grassroots Initiatives
Smart Innovations (SMI) is a Canadian development company actively engaged since 1976 in strengthening the capability of urban and rural communities in Africa, Southeast Asia and more recently in South America and China.
SMI works on the premise that the financial and material aspects of assistance should not overshadow the inherent capacity of the people themselves to produce positive change through grassroots initiatives and evolutionary growth to channel the talents and energies of individuals in service to humanity.
SMI and Climate Change
Climate change has become a pressing global issue caused by non sustainable economies and lifestyles. SMI believes that the drive to sustainability cannot be successfully achieved without effective environmental stewardship, the main foundation of which is transformative grass-root initiatives by self-empowered communities.
Information about SMI past experience and capabilities
SMI establishes EquiCarbon - The Equitable Carbon Management Consortium
To facilitate community-based environmental stewardship, SMI has established with a group of companies, organizations and consultants active in leading edge development initiatives on 4 continents, a consortium of professionals sharing a common vision on how communities can move to a more sustainable principle-based development model.
Through its world-wide network of associates, affiliates and consultants, EquiCarbon identifies a growing number of carbon offset projects and is moving them to the Project Idea Note stage and beyond with the intention of advancing them, in collaboration with project participants and its partners, to Project Design Document stage ready for submission to hard (regulated) and soft (voluntary) carbon credit buyers.
View EquiCarbon's CDM portfolio
