How Does Carbon Offsetting Really Work:

Whether you are a business or an individual you can offset all or part of your energy emissions (carbon footprint) and receive a certification for doing so!

Step One:

Calculate your carbon footprint yourself (via our carbon calculation solution – see “services for citizens”) or Grove Carbon can do that for you especially if you are a business – we are certified GHG Organizational and Accounting Auditors.

Step Two:

Offset as much of your carbon footprint as you wish – either an annual amount or less.

Your carbon footprint is measured in tonnes and you buy carbon credits by the tonne – so you will always know how much of your annual footprint you are offsetting when you purchase your credits.

Step Three:

The carbon credits you purchase are created through carbon emission savings provided via projects in other parts of the world such as:

  • Supporting efficient cookstove installations in the developing world – these cookstoves emit one third of the carbon emissions that cooking on open fires do.
  • Supporting solutions to provide clean, safe water to poorer communities so that citizens do not need to boil water on open fires – thus, cutting down on carbon emissions from boiling water on cookstoves or fires.

Step Four:

You and/or your business will have supported programs that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere and so you literally “offset” your own carbon footprint by contributing to carbon emission savings elsewhere on the planet.

Not only that, you’re helping, along with others, to significantly improve the quality of thousands peoples’ lives.

Check out Grove Carbon’s projects!

More Details on Carbon Offsetting

Often referred to as a “hierarchy” or “cycle”, carbon offsetting is a way for organizations or individuals to offset the energy they use by way of supporting projects that are aimed at reducing GHG emissions elsewhere; furthermore, such initiatives also allow companies and individuals to measure and monitor their GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions in a way that may uncover wastage and allow for a reduction in energy usage over-time, creating a winning solution on a number of levels.

Most carbon offsetting projects are based in developing countries and may include:

  • Provision of accessible safe drinking water thus reducing the need to boil water which reduces CO2 emissions and drastically improves the lives of impoverished citizens in developing countries.
  • Provision of efficient cookstoves so that less emissions are created than cooking on open fires and, our personal favorite, empowering and freeing up women to take on other duties and tasks as they no longer need to tend to stoves all day long.

Organizations may be required to offset their GHG emissions such as oil and gas conglomerates and energy/utility companies and others may do so voluntarily as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ethos. Plus, more and more individual citizens are taking up carbon offsetting initiatives either ongoing or on an ad hoc basis just because it’s simply the right thing to do!

Offset your Carbon Footprint today!