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WILL’S SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: YOUR COMMUNITY-ORIENTED AND MONETIZABLE SOLUTION FOR YOUR CORPORATE ECORESPONSIBILITY

The Will Solutions Sustainable Community (SC) is an innovation, a methodology, a community and an umbrella project. It is a community and circular-oriented solution for reducing the carbon emissions of SMEs, organizations and collectivities. On the one hand, it stimulates hundreds of thousands of carbon reduction projects from small GHG emitters. On the other hand, it converts the tons of CO₂e reduced at the source into carbon credits, and thus allows other stakeholders to get financially involved in the fight against climate change. Finally, Solutions Will donates 80% of sales in money and services to the microprojects leaders, thus creating a virtuous circle for positive change.

Activate voluntary carbon markets to power B2B carbon mitigation.

Your Benefits by joining Will’s Sustainable Community

Obtain an inventory and a carbon reference year using a relevant, recognized and standardized methodology.

Benefit from additional
strategic visibility,
sustainability knowledge,
and improved

operational efficiency.

Identify greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction opportunities which are relevant to your organization, and reach your decarbonization goals.

FREE Sustainable Community Membership

MONETIZATION of your
carbon reductions

Other benefits:

✅ Regulations anticipation
✅ Competitive advantage
✅ Brand image and ESG values
✅ Circular and sharing economy
✅ Networking and business opportunities
✅ Long-term eco-responsibility plan
✅ Employer brand boost

150+ Sustainable Community members trust us

Groupe Crête - Communauté Durable
Desjardins Caisse de l'Ouest de la Mauricie - Communauté Durable
Coopérative Agriscar - Communauté Durable
Planchers PG - Communauté Durable
Complexe Environnemental de la Rouge
Ateliers Mon Choix - Communauté Durable

THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY AS A BUSINESS MODEL

The Sustainable Community’s business model supports the carbon marketplace. This allows to:

  • Exercise responsible stewardship;
  • Democratize access to the carbon market;
  • Group together your GHG efforts;
  • Convert efforts into revenues.  

THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY AS A CLUSTER PROJECT

Our Sustainable Community has been specially designed to reduce GHG emissions originating from low emitters, all industrial, commercial and institutional sectors taken into account and for which reductions are unaffordable for most of them. Will Solutions offers low emitters the possibility of trading off their GHG emissions reduction efforts by stimulating and accounting for their common efforts and selling them on the carbon market. On these markets, the carbon reductions, converted into carbon credits, are then sold to buyers who make a financial commitment to support climate action.  

TARGET CUSTOMERS

Will’s Sustainable Community solution specifically targets small B2B sites/buildings – industrial, commercial, institutional, agricultural –  emitting less than 25 000 tons of CO2e per year or those which are not under-regulated markets.  There can be several projects for the same site/installation. 

THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY AS A METHODOLOGY

 VCS Certification Program
Our Sustainable Community has been designed in accordance with the VM0018 methodology principle of the VCS certification standard, validated by Verra. This standard is the most important certification standard on the worldwide voluntary market. This methodology is unique since it covers a vast number of small GHG reduction projects under the following groups: Energy Demand (group 3) and Waste Management and Landfill (group 13). A third group (group 7) involving transport will be added subsequently. Verra, our third party verifier and certifier, is an independent organization recognized for its rigor, its quality requirements and its status as a pioneer on the voluntary carbon markets. 

THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY AS A COMMUNITY

A FEW EXAMPLES OF GHG REDUCTION PROJECTS FROM OUR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Club d'encadrement technique en acériculture de l'Est

The Club d’encadrement technique d’acériculture de l’Est is an NPO that has completed several projects, including:

  • As an alternative to oil and firewood, electric wood pellet evaporators have been introduced.
  • The suppliers of wood pellets are selected according to their environmental responsibility.

 

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Recyc PHP

Recyc PHP specializes in the valorization of industrial waste of hygiene products. Through their innovations, they transform these residual materials into raw materials.

Recyc PHP then resells these raw materials to companies specialized in the manufacturing of plastic parts. Thus, the company reduces the GHG emissions related to landfill.

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780 Brewster

The major restoration of the 780 Brewster building, including the conversion from oil-fired heating to natural gas and the optimization of its HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) systems.

As a result, the building received LEED® Silver certification.

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Boisaco

Boisaco has replaced its butane/propane dryers with a biomass boiler, which allows wood residues to be reused rather than sent to landfill.

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PG Flooring

PG Flooring is a SME that makes hardwood floors and has more than 5000 products in its range. Among its reduction projects:

  • Energy conversion from natural gas to biomass
  • Recovery of heat produced by factory dust collectors to heat buildings in winter.
  • Revalorization of waste transformed into shavings by using them for heating (detour from landfill)


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Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce

The municipality converted from oil to electricity by installing a solar wall and a geothermal system. It also replaced the refrigeration and heat recovery system.

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