Through the Genesis Forest Project, Hyundai Motor America is supporting the conservation and creation of forests through a variety of channels by implementing one of the most unique and comprehensive carbon offset programs in the world.

• Offsetting the carbon emissions of every new 2009 Genesis sold for its first full year on the road by supporting a reforestation and avoided deforestation project located in Brazil.
• Enabling members of the Hyundai community, as well as interested individuals to calculate their carbon footprint and offset it by planting trees in the Genesis Forest Project.
• Financially supporting the work of the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance in its mission to develop rigorous standards to validate projects with positive climate, community, and biodiversity impacts.
• Sponsoring the Hyundai Climate Grants program to award three $35,000 grants to project developers to create new forestry carbon-offset projects designed to meet the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Standards.

The Genesis Forest Project is one of the first voluntary carbon offset purchases that aids an avoided deforestation project, allows consumers to contribute to the expansion of a specific project, and is the only program to offer grants to create new projects that will enable other corporations to more easily follow Hyundai’s lead.