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TACS our background information
Trans Africa Carbon Solutions (TACS) is one of the leading carbon
advisory firms in Southern Africa.
We are a network of professionals with expertise in CDM, Technology and
Finance. We manage a portfolio of more than 75 million carbon credits
(125+ projects; 23 already CDM registered in over 10 countries)
TACS works across a number of sectors such as renewable energy
(biomass, hydro and wind), waste to energy, and prevention of gases such
as methane, HFC-23, PFC, energy efficiency, waste heat recovery,
transportation and plantation etc,
We strive to provide sustainable solutions for the environment.
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Who we are
TACS is an integrated climate and clean energy company. This means we
work across the spectrum of climate change and carbon markets, renewable
energy and sustainable development at large. TACS was founded in 2004 to
help find ways to devise market based solutions to environmental problems.
Less than three years later, this received its first private equity investment
from IDFC Private Equity. IDFC or the Infrastructure Development Finance
Corporation, is Southern African’s largest infrastructure asset management
firm, dedicated to explore a means to transition to a lower carbon economy.
Since then, TACS has been working continually to further its mission – of
finding ways to combine finance with low carbon technology to bring about
solutions that mitigate climate change. We continue to work aggressively with
industry, the financial sector, with government bodies and multilateral
agencies to help pursue our mission.
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Who we are
TACS works with its clients to develop sustainable solutions for a better
tomorrow. This means creating business models that ensure profitability as
well as take environmental and social considerations into account. Just as we
are entrepreneurs, we work with other entrepreneurs to help demonstrate that
sustainable development can be profitable. But because the field is nascent, a
lot of policy changes need to be made – which is where we work with
governments and policy makers to help shape the regulatory environment.
New markets need constant innovation.
Many of our approaches have not been tried before, and to that extent TACS
is continually pushing risk mitigation agendas and traditional constructs
around clean energy and environmental markets.
TACS’s team is international – in location as well as experience, who actively
help shape the international debate on climate change and business.
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Value Proposition
To leverage resources, to assist in developing & deliver effective investments
by providing strategic vision, intellectual leadership & operational guidance in
3 areas
1. Defining& implementing a strategy for accumulating carbon credits for our
clients
2. Mobilising external resources in support of clean energy generation
3. Developing partnerships with donors ,knowledge centres and other
stakeholders for the benefit of our clients
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What we do
Compliance Market
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What we do
Voluntary Market
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Offerings
Investments
Facilitation for CDM
registration, carbon neutrality,
carbon foot-printing, CER/VER
trading, carbon assets
management
Carbon
Advisory
Investment from our strategic
partners – we also do the EPC &
manage the assets; provide
options to exchange equity for
equity in the holding company
prior to liquidity
TACS
Carbon
Finance &
Technology
Solutions
Combination of EPC
Contract (Technology),
provision of up to 50%
of equity as quasi equity
(Finance), and O&M, if
needed by the client
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The Founders
Gama Mutemeri
Works as a climate change consultant in the Southern Africa region. He has worked in the
energy sector for 15 years, starting as a researcher, project manager and currently consultant.
His deep knowledge of the economics and policy of the energy covers all subsectors including oil and gas, coal,biomass, all forms of renewables as well as the impact of
energy on the climate.
Gama's first degree, in business was obtained from The University of Westminster in the UK.
He further studied for a master's in Energy Policy and Planning from the University of Cape
Town in South Africa. He in addition, attended the University of Oslo to study Energy and
Environment.
Reginald Mugwara
Has over twenty years experience in dealing with international development cooperating
partners at multilateral, bilateral and NGO levels in support of national and regional projects
and programmes. He has over fifteen years extensive experience in dealing with all aspects
of development, policy analysis, trade and institutional development, and capacity building in
the SADC region.
In the financial services sector, Reginald was the founding director and shareholder of the
Leasing Company of Zimbabwe, director of Century Holdings and also a director of The
Discount Company of Zimbabwe.
He holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics (Hons.) and an M.A. in Political Economy
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Contact Information
Trans Africa Carbon Solutions
Tel: +27 11 440 6519
Fax: +27 86 542 2492
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.tacs-carbon.com
Physical Address
3 Lymington Avenue,
Winston Ridge 2196,
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Postal Address
P. Bag X1,
Melrose Arch, 2076
Johannesburg,
South Africa
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