What is carbon compensation?

Carbon Compensation is an alternative to traditional carbon offsetting initiatives developed by Renewable World. The scheme is a positive way for individuals and companies who accept their activities contribute to climate change and wish to address the impact of their actions, to invest in a poverty reduction project in a country vulnerable to the effects of climate change

Why carbon compensation?

Many people are uncomfortable with the concept of carbon offsettting but accept that their activities contribute to climate change and wish to address the impact of their actions.

Carbon compensation successfully addresses many of the concerns about the effectiveness of voluntary carbon trading schemes in delivering real and sustainable development benefits . 

Unlike many traditional offsetting schemes, we guarantee that 100% of your money will go directly to our projects which help communities affected by climate change and you will be able to track the progress of our projects and see the difference your money is making through our website and our quarterly magazine - New Energy.

How does carbon compensation work?

By compensating for your carbon emissions by funding a Renewable World project you will help a community to develop in a sustainable way and improve their access to health, education and employment opportunities. Renewable World projects replace dirty and unhealthy traditional fuels such as paraffin and wood with low carbon energy systems which are better for both the environment and people's health. 

What does carbon compensation cost?

Carbon compensation is based on the Social Cost of Carbon, which is the estimated value of the damage caused by one tonne of carbon dioxide, calculated independantly by the UK government's Stern Report.

How can you get involved?

You can use our carbon calculator to work out your individual carbon footprint or that of your company or organisation, or you can work out the emissions for a particular journey you have carried out.

Our calculator will then tell you how much you need to donate to our renewable energy poverty alleviation projects in order to compensate for your carbon emissions.You will then be able to make a secure donation using our online payment system.