Carbon Offsetting

Carbon offsetting is about balancing your impact on climate change.

Everyday actions like driving a car, flying and even using your computer consume energy and produce greenhouse gas emissions - such as carbon dioxide - which contribute to climate change.

You and your company can compensate for your unavoidable emissions by paying someone to make an equivalent greenhouse gas saving. This is called ‘carbon offsetting’.

Should you offset your emissions?
Everybody has a responsibility to reduce their carbon footprint - for example by using public transport more often or turning down thermostats.

There are many ways of reducing your carbon emissions. The Reuse Recycle Carbon Offset Scheme is a way of offsetting some of your unavoidable emissions.

Is this a ‘cure’ for climate change?
No – offsetting won’t reverse the effects already caused by greenhouse gases.

The environmental harm caused by these emissions cannot be undone. By saving an equivalent amount of greenhouse gas elsewhere, however, we can help to minimise current and future global emissions.

Small steps can make a big difference.