With this arrangement, Azzera will supply a portfolio of carbon credits rated through Azzera’s Impact Score. The engine manufacturer’s Carbon Offset Service is available to all Pratt & Whitney Canada-powered aircraft including business jets, helicopters and regional and general aviation aircraft. 

“Our collaboration with Pratt & Whitney Canada underscores our shared commitment to driving sustainability in the aviation sector,” said Puja Mahajan (pictured right), CEO and co-founder of Azzera. “The Azzera Impact Score ensures that the carbon credits provided are both high-quality and have verified and significant environmental impact. Working with customers such as Pratt & Whitney Canada, we are making it easier for aircraft operators to not only offset their emissions but also to understand and quantify the positive environmental impact of their contributions.”

The Azzera Impact Score serves as a quality assurance measure for carbon credit projects. It addresses concerns in the voluntary carbon markets regarding the validity and impact of carbon credits, offering a tangible and auditable metric that mitigates the risk of greenwashing.

“We are committed to providing our customers a seamless way of offsetting aviation carbon emissions,” said Irene Makris, vice president, Customer Service, Pratt & Whitney Canada. “Through our arrangement with Azzera, we provide our customers with a means to compensate for their aviation emissions and help them ensure the quality of their sustainability investment. We are focusing exclusively on CORSIA-eligible credits, adding an additional layer of due diligence to our Carbon Offset Service.” 

Azzera will be showcasing its products and services at Booth J37 during this year’s EBACE in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The platform give operators access to voluntary and compliance carbon credit trading, sustainable aviation fuel certificates (SAFc), fleet management software integration and compliance market segregation services. Azzera said it launched the programme in response to the public, stakeholder and regulatory pressure facing aircraft operators to advance to net-zero. 

“Azzera Celeste is a one-stop-shop for total carbon emissions management,” said Puja Mahajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Azzera. “Presently, we are enrolling aircraft operators to participate in our beta testing phase. Participants will have access to our subscription-based platform for one year free of charge. We invite interested parties to visit us online or in-person at EBACE.”

The platform enables users to automatically calculate fleet emissions through fleet management software integration. They can also save hundreds of hours by segregating emissions and extracting reports for various compliance needs, including the EU emissions trading system (ETS) and Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). User can also claim emissions reductions by acquiring SAFc via Azzera’s ‘Book and Claim’ system. 

Mahajan added: “In the last year, Azzera has established ongoing collaborations with industry leaders including Jetcraft, Jetex and Elit’Avia, which validates our mission of helping business aviation on its path to Net-Zero. Sustainability is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our industry and the time for action is now. Reflecting on the last year, we have seen a tremendous growth in the number of companies wanting to take sustainable action. We remain driven by our vision to reset aviation’s climate legacy.”

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*Aircraft owners and operators offered new service to manage compliance programmes, including EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), Swiss ETS and UK ETS

*Puja Mahajan, CEO and co-founder, Azzera: “We launched Azzera because purchasing carbon offsets is complicated but investing in protecting our environment should be easy. Today, there are more than 22,000 business jets operating worldwide and the carbon emissions per passenger are significant”

*Azzera provides direct access to the voluntary carbon offsetting market.

Full release

Montreal, May 17, 2022 – Azzera, an innovative new provider of carbon offsetting and compliance solutions, today introduced services tailor-made for business aviation.

Carbon offsetting is the acquisition of credits that compensate for unavoidable carbon emissions. Credits are generally defined as compliance-based (obligatory) or voluntary. Both markets are highly complex and access can be very bureaucratic.

Azzera works with aircraft owners and operators to manage their participation in compliance programs, including EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), Swiss ETS and UK ETS. Working on behalf of its clients, the Azzera team secures all necessary allowances and ensures that program requirements are met and exceeded.

The company also provides direct access to the voluntary carbon offsetting market. Projects that permit clients to claim carbon neutrality are subject to rigorous due diligence before being selected by Azzera. Examples include ICAO Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)-eligible offsets.

Azzera will soon launch online services to calculate carbon footprints and roll-out a fully-transparent blockchain-based marketplace for trading carbon credits to become the world’s first centralized spot trading carbon market exchange. The company has already secured a technology investor/partner and more than $1 million USD in pre-seed funding.

Founded by Puja Mahajan and Nick Houseman, both 25+year business aviation veterans, the Azzera team have lived the challenges of measuring aircraft emissions and have developed sophisticated understandings of compliance-based and voluntary carbon markets.

“We launched Azzera because purchasing carbon offsets is complicated but investing in protecting our environment should be easy,” says Puja Mahajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Azzera. “Today, there are more than 22,000 business jets operating worldwide and the carbon emissions per passenger are significant. Some larger business aircraft operators have integrated carbon offsetting into their business models. But for small to midsize operators selecting and implementing top-quality offset solutions can be very complicated. This is where we come in – by selecting and facilitating access to the highest quality carbon offset initiatives on the market.”

“We have a bold vision for enabling organizations and individuals to effortlessly fight climate change. Massive investment in carbon avoidance and removal projects is needed. We are facilitating that process. In the first phase, we are targeting business aviation – the industry we know best. In the mid-term, we will apply ourselves to a growing number of sectors. Any industry that generates GHGs is a potential client for Azzera,” adds Nick Houseman, Co-Founder, Azzera.

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