Warner Bros. Discovery AB 1305 Disclosure Statement (2025)
Warner Bros. Discovery ("WBD,""we," or "our") provides this disclosure regarding its purchase of voluntary carbon offsets pursuant to California's Assembly Bill 1305, the Voluntary Carbon Markets Disclosure Act. For additional information regarding WBD's sustainability- and climate-related activities, please refer to our Impact website.
In 2025, we purchased the following offsets:
Project Name | Seller Organization | Registry | Project ID | Project Type | Protocol/Methodology | Country | Verifier |
Afognak Forest Carbon Project | Cool Effect, Inc | VERRA | VCS 872 | Carbon removal and avoided emissions | Improved Forest Management in Temperate and Boreal Forests | United States | Rainforest Alliance |
Macaúbas Landfill Gas Project - CER Conversion | Ecologi | VERRA | VCS 3010 | Waste handling and disposal | ACM0001: Large-scale Consolidated Methodology- "Flaring or use of landfill gas" Version 19.0 | Brazil | Colombian Institute for Technical Standards and Certification |
Australian Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Project | Ecologi | Gold Standard | GS3039 | Carbon Removal | Afforestation/Reforestation GHG Emissions Reduction & Sequestration Methodology (v1) | Australia | Rainforest Alliance |
Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project | Conservation International | VERRA | VCS 1408 | REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) | Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) VM009, with the Climate, Community, & Biodiversity Standards (CCB) | Kenya | SCS Global Services & Aster Global Environmental Solutions, Inc. |
Ciudad Juarez Landfill Gas to Energy Project | Cool Effect, Inc | Climate Action Reserve | CAR1696 | Waste Handling and Disposal, Landfill Gas Destruction Emission Reduction | Climate Action Reserve Landfill Mexico Landfill Protocol, Version 2.0 (5 October 2022) | Mexico | SCS Global Services |
Comunidad El Tarahumar y Bajíos del Tarahumar | Cool Effect, Inc | Climate Action Reserve | CAR1648 | Carbon Removal | Mexico Forest Protocol v3.0 | Mexico | Asociación de Normalización y Certificación S.A. de C.V |
Delta Blue Carbon, Pakistan | Ecologi | VCS | VCS 2250 | Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use | VM0033 | Pakistan | SCS Global Services/ Colombian Institute for Technical Standards and Certification |
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme-VPA1 | Ecologi | Gold Standard | GS10967 | Energy Efficiency - Domestic | GS TPDDTEC v3.1 (v3.1)/ Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC), Version 03.1 | Uganda | SustainCERT/ Carbon Check |
May Ranch Avoided Grassland Conversion | Cool Effect, Inc | Climate Action Reserve | CAR1261 | Grasslands: Nature-Based Reduction | U.S. Grassland Protocol Version 2.1 | United States | Aster Global Environmental Solutions, Inc. |
Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project | Ecologi | VCS | VCS 1477 | Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use | VM0007 | Indonesia | SCS Global Services/ERM CVS |
Carbon Hill | Ecologi | Puro Earth | 712033 | Carbon Removal | Biochar, 2022 | Wales | bio.inspecta |
Corazón Verde Del Chaco Project | Ecologi | VCS | VCS 2611 | Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use | VM0007 | Paraguay | Aster Global Environmental Solutions, Inc./AENOR |
Resguardo Indígena Unificado- Selva de Mataven | Ecologi | VCS | VCS 1566 | Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use | VM0007 | Colombia | Colombian Institute for Technical Standards and Certification/ SGS Global Services |
Reforestation and Restoration of Degraded Mangrove Lands, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Community Development in Myanmar | Cool Effect, Inc | VERRA | VCS 1764 | Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation; Carbon Removal | CDM Methodology: AR-AM0014 Afforestation and Reforestation of Degraded Mangrove Habitats, Version 03.0 | Myanmar | RINA S.p.A. |
Regenerating Agricultural Land to Remove Carbon1 | Ecologi | Pending Regen Registry Certification | Not Available | Carbon Removal | Not Available | Czech Republic | Not Available |
Solar DC Programme in Off-grid Regions in India | Cool Effect, Inc | Gold Standard | GS7467 | Solar Electricity; Avoided Emissions | Small Scale Methodology Integrated methodology for Electrification of Communities | India | Carbon Check |
Tradewater - Saudi Arabia 1 | Cool Effect, Inc | ACR | ACR793 | Ozone Depleting Substances; Avoided Emissions | Destruction of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) from International Sources | Saudi Arabia | TÜV SÜD |
Landfill Gas Extraction and Electricity Generation Project - Istanbul, Turkey | Ecologi | Gold Standard | GS707 | Landfill Gas (LFG); Carbon Avoidance | ACM0001 "Consolidated baseline and monitoring methodology for landfill gas project activities" Version 11.0.0 | Turkey | TÜV NORD/TÜV SÜD |
Uberlândia Landfills I and II | Cool Effect, Inc | Gold Standard | GS3434 | Biogas - Electricity | ACM0001 Flaring or Use of Landfill Gas | Brazil | TÜV NORD |
Wakefield Brunswick Biochar | Ecologi | Puro Earth | 244045 | Carbon Removal | Biochar, 2022 | United States | Accend AS |
1 Ecologi, the selling organization of offsets for this Regenerating Agricultural Land to Remove Carbon project, provides limited information about the project and the offsets related thereto. We have provided here information relevant to our AB 1305 disclosure to the extent it is available. Additional information can be found at the Ecologi Carbon Marketplace website, linked to here: https://ecologi.com/impact/projects/regenerating-agricultural-land-to-remove-carbon