Why Carbon Offset Now

The Case for Carbon Offsetting: Taking Responsibility for Our Climate Impact

Climate change demands immediate and decisive action. While reducing our direct carbon footprint is essential, carbon offsetting provides a vital mechanism to address the emissions we can't yet eliminate. It's a powerful way to take responsibility for our environmental impact and actively contribute to a more sustainable future.

Understanding Carbon Offsetting

Carbon offsetting means funding certified projects elsewhere that prevent, reduce, or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. Think reforestation, renewable energy deployment, or capturing industrial gases. Each offset credit typically represents one tonne of CO₂ (or equivalent greenhouse gas) removed or avoided.

Did You Know?

An annual average individual (UK) has a carbon footprint of 5.6 tonnes CO2 (14 tonnes in US) 

Offset Your Carbon Footprint Now

Key Reasons to Offset Your Carbon Footprint:

  • Accountability for Impact: Offsetting allows individuals and organisations to take direct financial responsibility for the unavoidable emissions generated by their activities, travel, or operations. It acknowledges our part in the climate challenge.
  • Accelerate Global Climate Solutions: Your offsetting contribution directly funds projects that might not otherwise happen, speeding up the transition to a low-carbon economy and deploying vital climate solutions globally.
  • Go Beyond Your Own Reductions: While reducing your own footprint is paramount, offsetting enables you to compensate for emissions that are currently difficult or impossible to cut, achieving carbon neutrality sooner.
  • Support Wider Sustainable Development: High-quality offset projects often deliver significant co-benefits beyond carbon reduction, such as protecting biodiversity, creating local jobs, improving air and water quality, and empowering communities.
  • Meet Stakeholder Expectations: Increasingly, customers, investors, employees, and regulators expect organisations to demonstrate climate responsibility. Offsetting (as part of a wider climate strategy) is a recognised way to do this.

Make this your year for impactful climate action! Develop a consistent annual plan and commit to making a real difference.

  • Measure your Carbon Footprint – know what your impact is, identify the actions that you must change
    Pledge 5 Things That will Reduce your Impact – post it on your social media and stick to it
    Offset your Carbon Emissions – you are responsible for the damage – you must fix it
    Collaborate & Communicate – Tell your friends (and anyone else who will listen) what you are doing – this is the global issue and needs global effort
 

Why Offset with Carbon Footprint Ltd? 

Carbon Footprint Ltd is a leading carbon offset provider, with access to over 1,000 projects worldwide, all verified again leading international standards. We ourselves are audited on an annual basis as part of the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for carbon offsetting. We also provide you with a class leading carbon project rating system called the Carbon Offset Insight Platform (CRISP), that rates each project against key carbon offsetting criteria, giving you valuable insights to support your decisions making. 

In addition, for each tonne of CO2 that you offset we will contribute 5% (at no extra cost to you) to the Freedom Flight Prize – The Global Challenge for True Zero Carbon Emission Aviation – in this way you are also supporting the development of cutting edge low carbon technology.

And for every 10 tonnes CO2 offset, we plant 1 tree in our Kenya project in the Great Rift Valley – supporting developing communities, biodiversity and environmental education.

In this way Carbon Footprint's offsetting not only reduces climate impact but also accelerates zero-carbon aviation technology and brings community & biodiversity benefits in Kenya.

How to Offset and Support Global Net Zero

More details in the links below
 How Carbon Offsetting Works, Climate Change, Deforestation