Carbon emissions and climate change concerns are rising.
In response to the urgency of climate change and rising greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets offer a proven method to reduce the amount of carbon emissions in our atmosphere. Carbon offset projects are part of an established environmental solution with growing innovation in the ways carbon can be captured or avoided.
What are carbon offset projects?
Since greenhouse gas emissions affect every community, carbon offset projects vary widely in location and scientific methodology. These projects are designed to cancel out emissions by capturing or destroying them—or even preventing emissions from being released in the first place. Carbon offsets are used to measure that cancellation, and each offset represents the reduction, destruction, or capture of one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emission (CO2e).
HOW IT WORKS
Carbon offset projects are funded by purchasing carbon credits.
We purchase carbon credits on behalf of our clients to offset or neutralize their carbon footprints. By investing in carbon offset projects, we mitigate the impact of our clients’ emissions while supporting effective, sustainable innovation.
Carbon offset projects generate carbon credits, each with their own unique serial number. Think of carbon credits like gift cards—each one has a monetary value and can only be redeemed once.
PROJECT METHODOLOGIES
Think it’s all about planting trees?
Think again. Carbon offsets apply to several greenhouse gases, and remediation can take place in many ways. (Yes, one of those ways includes replanting trees in deforested areas.)
Reforestation
Tree plantings and sustainable forestry practices increase the natural storage of carbon.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Companies with significant shipping or packaging components, retail fuel, fleet managers, auto manufacturers.
Landfill Gas Capture
As decomposing material releases methane gas into the air, the gas is captured and destroyed.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Companies that produce significant material waste that ends up in landfills like consumer goods and packaging, and retailers.
Alternative Energy
Investment in alternative energy technology decreases reliance on traditional emission-heavy methods.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Institutions that use coal plants to power their campuses and buildings, technology companies that power offices, processes and servers.
Methane Reduction
Methane gas emissions from many sources are captured and eliminated.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Organizations that emit methane, like oil and gas companies, coal mining, food and beverage companies, or restaurants.
Industrial Process
Investment in new or alternative manufacturing processes with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Transportation companies looking for ways to reduce their environmental impact, cruise ships, air travel companies and consumer goods manufacturing.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
Make a bigger impact with certified projects.
You might be putting off sustainability initiatives because you don’t know where to start. We partner with you to get you on track, and keep you there. And you can rest assured in our investments—they all meet standard industry requirements, as well as these six qualifications:
Quantifiable
We must be able to account for every metric ton of CO2 equivalent captured, destroyed, or prevented.
Verifiable
We must be able to prove CO2 equivalent reduction has occurred as a result of the project.
Auditable
We must be able to review validation reports delivered by third-party verifiers.
Registered
Each project must be publicly registered, and carbon offsets must be serialized and retired on a registry.
Permanent
The project’s environmental impact must be durable and lasting.
Additional
The project’s reduction of emissions must be dependent on the funding of carbon offsets.
THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION
Carbon Offset Tracking & Verification
Our third-party-verified investments all meet standards developed and maintained by the following organizations:
INTERNATIONAL CARBON STANDARDS
Once you’ve purchased carbon offsets, you’ll be added to public registries maintained by these organizations:
CARBON PROJECT REGISTRIES
Jari Pará REDD+
The Jari Pará REDD+ Project promotes forest conservation and reduces potential greenhouse gas emissions based on a model of local economic development that values the “standing forest” through the integration of Sustainable Forest Management activities and the commercialization of environmental services. The region serves as a home for many rural families and as an ecological corridor. It has a very rich biodiversity; its vegetation includes ten forest and non-forest formations and species of extreme ecological and social importance. Read More...
