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# Retiring Credits

If looking for `Transfer and retire` see [here](/documentation/carbonregistry.com/registry-user-guide/project-proponents-and-developers/credits/transferring-credits.md#transfer-and-retire).

Start by going to your organization's dashboard and navigate to the `inventory` tab. 

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There you can see your whole credit inventory. Find the project and vintage that you want to retire credits from and press the `actions` menu button as displayed in the image 👆From the actions menu dropdown choose `Retire` .

This will take you to the `Retirement credit` flow.

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There you need to insert information for this retirement action.

1. Credit: the credit to retire - which defaults on the credit-row from your inventory that you pressed on.
2. Total credits to retire: the amount of credits, in tCO2, to retire
3. Retirement reason: an optional comment for the retirement.

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Then you can press continue and review the retirement action.

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If all the information is correct you can confirm the retirement and confirm again on the popup window.

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After the retirement, which can take up to \~1 minute, has completed you can navigate to the Transactions tab on your organization's dashboard where you can see the status of the retirement and download a receipt for the transaction.

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You can also navigate to the `Retirements` tab to see the retirement and download the certificate.

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