carbon-connect Partners With Marussia F1™ Team

ZURICH, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

carbon-connect GmbH, a Switzerland-based carbon-offsetter and supplier, is pleased to announce that it has agreed a long-term partnership with the UK-based Marussia F1™ Team. The relationship represents a small but meaningful step in the Team's progression towards an improved environmental positioning as it will facilitate the offsetting of all its carbon emissions.

Offsetting carbon involves companies financing or part-financing projects that save the equivalent amount of carbon generated by the company. The Marussia F1™ Team elected to partner with carbon-connect GmbH (http://www.carbon-connect.ch) due to their high-quality projects and unique infrastructure solutions for carbon credit offsetters and investors.

Andy Webb, Chief Executive Officer, Marussia F1™ Team

"As a small team reacting to a variety of business challenges, it would be easy to overlook the little things we can be doing to improve our operational performance at the same time as improving our on-track performance. Partnering with carbon-connect is a further step in the right direction. We attach great importance to selecting and working with market leaders, particularly in this instance, as we wanted to achieve a partnership which will make a meaningful contribution and for the long-term."

Pascal Freudenreich, Head of Swiss Operations, carbon-connect GmbH

"We are very pleased to be working with the Marussia F1™ Team which, through the provision of our carbon credits, will be carbon neutral for the next three years. carbon-connect is very proud that the Team has recognised our company's market leading credentials. The Team has shown great promise in testing and we are looking forward to observing an exciting season ahead."

carbon-connect GmbH (http://www.carbon-connect.ch) aims to become the world's largest provider of voluntary carbon credits and provides carbon management services for carbon offsetters.

carbon-connect has a diverse portfolio of Voluntary Carbon Offsets ranging from wind farms in Asia to its more recent project of 195,000 hectares of forestry in Africa, where it is inviting mining and Fortune 500 companies to become stakeholders and participate in one of the world's most important environmental projects to date.

carbon-connect have just been selected as the exclusive supplier to investment firm Swiss Private Broker AG (http://www.swissprivatebroker.ch) who offer a wide range of trading solutions and growth funds involving environmental products to qualified investors.

carbon-connect has already had a busy start to 2013 and is looking forward to a successful future which may involve a Stock Exchange listing.

carbon-connect GmbH - Pascal Freudenreich, Managing Partner - +41(0)44-377-80-80, info@carbon-connect.ch.

http://www.carbon-connect.ch: if you would like to talk with an advisor on how carbon-connect can help your company become carbon neutral or on project development please call carbon-connect on +49(0)69-907-577-15 or e-mail: enquiries@carbon-connect.ch; if you would like to talk with an advisor about carbon trading solutions then please call +41(0)44-377-80-80.

SOURCE carbon-connect GmbH