Combating climate change starts at home, and reducing your household’s emissions is a powerful way to safeguard the planet for future generations. By offsetting your emissions with the Climate Change Institute, you contribute to impactful carbon removal projects. These initiatives encompass a variety of solutions, including wind and solar energy developments, sustainable biomass projects, forest restoration efforts, and other innovative methods that effectively remove or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
You can either use our carbon footprint calculator to work out your exact emissions or use the Global Average Carbon Footprint of 12 Tonnes per year for people living in industrial economies. To give you some idea, a University of Michigan study found that the food we eat accounts for close to two tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that a typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
By offsetting this amount with the Climate Change Institute, you’re supporting verified carbon removal and reduction projects, including renewable energy like wind and solar, biomass energy, and reforestation efforts. These initiatives not only reduce greenhouse gases but also drive the transition to a sustainable and resilient planet.
Now is the time to act. You can go Carbon Neutral right away based on EPA carbon footprint averages and support vitally needed projects that eliminate carbon from the atmosphere. Offset your household’s emissions with the Climate Change Institute and PayPal. Together, we can create a greener, more sustainable world—one household at a time.
The Institute also offers Carbon Neutral Subscriptions which are paid monthly, with no long contracts, so you can cancel anytime. You will receive an Offset Certificate issued in your name each month, with a unique serial number listed on the Verra VCS Carbon Registry, which shows that you are financing UN endorsed carbon removal projects and actively doing something to fight climate change.
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Each metric tonne of C02 that is removed from the atmosphere by an an offset certificate, is enough to fill up 500 fire extinguishers, or 8 swimming pools, and have the same weight as 400 bricks.
For a one-person household, this means offsetting 12 metric tonnes of CO₂-e per year, which is no small amount. To put this into perspective it is estimated that this much CO₂ equals the amount of gas contained in about 6,000 standard fire extinguishers. It also weighs as much as approximately 4,800 standard bricks, with each brick weighing around 2.5–3 kg.
You can also pay monthly with a Carbon Neutral Subscription, you will and receive a one tonne offset certificate every month. This allows you to go carbon neutral based on EPA estimates of 12 tonnes per year for an average person living in a modern economy.
Carbon reduction projects are buying the world the needed to make the transition to low carbon economies.
Verified carbon reduction projects produce Carbon Offset Certificates which are recorded in International Carbon Registries.
They finance activates which remove and reduce greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.
They are rigorously scrutinized through an international monitoring and verification process.
Carbon Offset Certificates for verified projects are issued by the Verra, Gold or CDM Registry administered by the United Nations Secretariat. Verified projects earn Certified Emission Reduction units equivalent to one tonne of CO2-e and each has a unique serial number recorded in the UN Registry and displayed on the certificate. Carbon offset certificates finance certified projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere in other parts of the world and are rigorously scrutinized through an international monitoring and verification process. Each certificate represents one metric tonne of C02.
Certificates support a range of projects that include wind, solar, hydro, biomass energy recovery, geothermal and GHG abatement. They not only reduce emissions but also but also drive sustainable development and improved living conditions.
The Climate Change Institute is committed to finding solutions by supporting UN carbon reduction projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions whilst supporting sustainable development and providing resources to help individuals and organizations take action to lower their carbon footprint.
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