Offset your remaining carbon emissions
You’ve made big changes and reduced your carbon emissions, but you’re still not at net-zero. Tariff.com will get you there with the right offset project that takes your business towards full net zero.
What are carbon credits and carbon offsets?
Despite their greatest efforts, it’s often hard for businesses to operate without relying on fossil fuels for at least some of their operations. While this remains the case, achieving the goal of net-zero remains impossible.
Carbon credits and carbon offsets are a means of compensating for any greenhouse gas emissions a business produces by allowing them to invest in projects that remove the equivalent carbon from the atmosphere.
How do carbon credits work?
Each carbon credit represents either the permanent removal of one tonne of CO2 from the atmosphere or the prevention of it ever getting there. This is achieved in one of two ways:
CO2 removal: This involves investing in a project that removes carbon from the atmosphere such as large-scale tree-planting. As they grow, trees convert atmospheric CO2 into solid carbon and store it in their trunks and roots.
CO2 avoidance: Here, a business makes changes in how they use land or generate power to prevent CO2 being produced in the first place. This could include the restoration of peatlands, which release large volumes of greenhouse gases when left to degrade.
Net-Zero Business Benefits
Net-Zero Business Benefits
Establish and achieve a realistic net-zero target for your business.
Reduce your business carbon footprint
Switch to a renewable energy tariff and further shrink your carbon footprint.
Boost your reputation
Impress brand stakeholders with powerful eco-credentials.
Support Net-Zero UK
Contribute to the UK goal of being a net-zero country by 2050.
Where Does Tariff Source Its Carbon Credits?
As one of the UK’s foremost providers of bespoke energy switching services, we’re committed to providing a comprehensive overview of the process we undertake on behalf of your business. With dedicated sites UK-wide, we’ve got more than enough scope to accommodate your energy usage.
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How can your business offset carbon emissions?
To offset your business’ carbon emissions, you must invest in projects that demonstrably remove or prevent any emissions that your activity otherwise releases into the atmosphere. So, if a woodland plantation or peatland restoration project would have begun without income from your investment, no emissions have been offset.
By supporting verifiable projects that remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through Tariff.com, your business offsets its emissions and receives the information and support needed for taking ownership of your carbon footprint going forwards.
Green Credentials
As more and more businesses take steps to reduce their carbon emissions, demonstrating ‘green credentials’ begins to lose its impact with stakeholders. However, those businesses able to present themselves as fully net-zero stand out as pioneers in their respective fields.
Offset your residual emissions with Tariff.com and move towards a greener, cleaner, and brighter future.
Carbon Credits Frequently Asked Questions
If your business has already taken meaningful steps to reduce its carbon emissions, such as switching to a green energy supplier or installing a carbon management system, but still produces some emissions, carbon credits allow you to offset this remainder.
In effect, it is the final piece of the jigsaw to achieving net-zero status.
Upon your purchase, you’ll receive a certificate detailing how many tonnes of greenhouse gases your investment has either compensated for or removed from the atmosphere.
Carbon credits are generated from business projects around the world that pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Each project should reduce one metric tonne of greenhouse gas to gain one carbon credit.
Although the terms ‘carbon offset’ and ‘carbon credit’ are often used interchangeably they are slightly different.
- A carbon offset is a mechanism that allows organisations to nullify unavoidable carbon emissions and is achieved by activity that prevents, reduces, or removes the release of these emissions into the atmosphere. Offsetting is used by organisations to achieve net zero status where they cannot reduce their emissions further without disrupting operations.
- A carbon credit is a tradable permit or certificate that’s issued for every tonne of CO2 a verified project manages to absorb, avoid, or otherwise reduce. It essentially confers the holder of the credit the right to emit one tonne of CO2 or other greenhouse gas equivalent without damaging the environment.
So that our customers can purchase their carbon credits with confidence, Tariff.com ensure all our green partners are fully vetted and 100% genuine. You can be sure that your credits are verifiable and will deliver the benefits to the environment and planet as promised.
It is estimated that around 200 billion trees will need to be planted across the world to offset all carbon dioxide.
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Unless we act now global temperatures could increase by 2.7°C this century, causing regular and catastrophic flooding, droughts, wildfires, and extinctions.
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