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·Carbon offsetting for more sustainable entrepreneurship
Do you want to make your organization more sustainable? Ecommit offers a solution. We provide customized services to help (partly) offset your company's carbon emissions.
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Expert in carbon: numbers, legislation, and offsetting
Ecommit is a specialist in carbon offsetting. Whether you need insights into your emissions, want to stay updated on the latest laws and regulations, or wish to purchase carbon credits, we have what you need.
Carbon emissions
There are many ways to reduce your company's carbon footprint. How much carbon are you actually emitting? What options do you have? With our information, you can make informed decisions.
Legislation and regulations
Carbon legislation is complex and constantly evolving. What regulations do you need to comply with? We keep track of developments and explain what the current and upcoming laws mean for your business.
Carbon offsetting
We collaborate with projects that offset carbon emissions. Are you looking for a way to make your business more sustainable? Contribute to one of these sustainability projects and receive carbon credits as proof.
Carbon emissions
What is the problem with carbon emissions?
CO2, or carbon, is a greenhouse gas that naturally occurs in the atmosphere. Along with other greenhouse gases, CO2 helps retain the sun's heat, making life on earth possible. However, scientists have determined that the amount of CO2 in the air is increasing. This rise is mainly due to the burning of oil and gas and the production of fertilizers. Higher carbon emissions contribute to global warming.
Carbon credits
What are carbon credits?
Nature offers various ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Plants, trees, and oceans can all store carbon. Additionally, there are technological solutions, such as machines that capture carbon from the air. If your company financially supports a project that either removes carbon from the atmosphere or prevents additional carbon from being released, you receive a certificate for it. This is known as a carbon credit. One carbon credit represents one tonne (1,000 kg) of carbon emissions removed or prevented.
Projects
What are sustainability projects?
Sustainability projects contribute to a better living environment. Ecommit collaborates with sustainability projects both domestically and internationally that offset carbon emissions. These projects use technology, agriculture, reforestation, and other innovative methods to remove carbon from the air. Before we invest in a project, we conduct thorough research. The project must be certified, and the carbon credits must be registered. This ensures that we provide your company with a reliable and effective way to offset carbon emissions.
Sustainability
What are the benefits of more sustainable business practices?
A sustainability policy offers your organization numerous advantages. First and foremost, you contribute to solutions for climate issues. There are already many environmental standards and regulations, and these will only increase in the future. Suppliers and partners increasingly expect companies to commit to sustainability. Responsible business practices also lead to engaged employees and attract new talent. Additionally, a strong corporate reputation helps you attract and retain customers.
What does offsetting offer your business?
More attractive to partners
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to partners and suppliers. By purchasing carbon credits of projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere, you demonstrate that your company is actively engaged in sustainability.
Employee engagement
Employees often feel more connected to a sustainable employer. Carbon offsetting also attracts new, talented individuals who resonate with your company's values and principles.
Appealing to customers
Businesses and individuals are becoming more conscious and prefer companies committed to sustainability. Many customers are willing to pay a premium for sustainable products and services.
Added value for products
Carbon credits help you stand out from the competition. Making sustainability a key part of your business adds value to your products or services and gives you an edge in bidding processes.
Crucial for financing
For banks and other financiers, a sustainability plan is highly valuable. Efforts to avoid, reduce, and offset carbon emissions are often a requirement for funding.
Future-oriented image
Sustainable business practices positively impact both the climate and your brand. By purchasing carbon credits, you show that your company is committed to leading and adapting to new developments.
Projects ecommit collaborates with
When you purchase carbon credits through ecommit, you contribute to significant sustainability projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere or that ensure that carbon is not released into the air. The projects we work with are located both in the Netherlands and abroad. Here are some of the various projects:
Naturevest
This ambitious project in Croatia focuses on the Anna Paulowna tree (Paulownia), a species known for its exceptional carbon absorption capabilities.
Scolel’te
In the Mayan language Tzeltal, Scolel’te means 'the tree that grows'. This wonderful project in Mexico utilizes reforestation and agroforestry.
Paulownia Deest
This innovative project in Deest, Netherlands, uses Paulownia trees, which are known for their exceptional carbon absorption capabilities.
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Blijvend Grasland
Blijvend Grasland is a collection of excellent projects in the Netherlands. These projects use grasslands to store carbon in the soil.
GreenTrees ACRE
GreenTrees encourages individual landowners to plant forests. The trees remove carbon from the air and are a source of income for the owners.
Carbono Rancho Victoria
Where trees were once illegally logged, pines, eucalyptus, and acacias now remove carbon dioxide from the air.
How do you want to offset your company's carbon emissions?
There are various ways to offset your carbon emissions. Choose the option that suits your company best.
Choose your amount
Choose the amount for which you want to buy carbon credits. This way you always know exactly what your costs will be.
Choose the amount of carbon
Choose the amount of carbon you want to buy carbon credits for. This way you always know exactly how much carbon you are offsetting.
Choose a surcharge
By imposing a sustainability surcharge on your product or service, you can offset carbon. We will gladly help find the way that best suits your business.
Choose one-off
You can offset the emissions of a specific business activity, event or business unit. Choose the amount of carbon you want to offset as a one-off.
Buy your carbon
credits now
Do you want to offset your company's carbon emissions? Purchase carbon credits to support essential sustainability projects and help reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
Reliable
The carbon credits come from certified, registered projects that guarantee carbon offsetting.
Quick and easy
Buying carbon credits is simple and quick, allowing you to start offsetting your emissions immediately.
Affordable
You decide the amount of carbon you want to offset, making carbon offsetting accessible for any budget.
Customizable
Choose the offsetting method that fits your company best: offset for a certain amount or quantity of carbon, per product or service sold, or per activity or event.
Stay informed with our blogs
In our blogs, you will find everything you need to know about carbon offsetting. We keep up with legislation, provide the latest news, summarize research findings, and share whitepapers.
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·Frequently asked questions about sustainable business
Sustainable business, or corporate social responsibility, revolves around balancing people, planet, and profit. By integrating social responsibility into your policies, your company takes responsibility. Conscious use of natural resources contributes to a cleaner planet for future generations, benefiting your business as well. Customers and employees appreciate companies that take a stand and create positive impacts.
You can gradually make your business more sustainable by setting clear goals, such as reducing carbon emissions, minimizing waste, or using sustainable materials. Embed sustainability in your company culture. Encourage employees to be mindful of water, electricity, food, and waste, involving them in developing sustainable initiatives. Work with sustainable partners, setting criteria like maximum carbon emissions, use of renewable energy, or fair labor conditions.
A sustainable business prioritizes people and the environment alongside profit. When sustainability is integral to corporate policy, employees feel engaged and proud. Customers also favor brands that take a stand and create positive impacts. By consciously using natural resources, a sustainable business contributes to a cleaner planet for future generations.
You can make your business more sustainable by reducing carbon emissions, minimizing waste, switching to green energy sources, or using sustainable materials. Essentially, you can consider a more sustainable approach for every activity and process in your organization, starting small and expanding over time.
Sustainability projects, or climate protection projects, either remove carbon from the air or prevent additional carbon emissions. This includes agriculture, agroforestry, or reforestation. Projects must meet stringent criteria, validated and verified by independent organizations according to internationally recognized standards. Only after verification can carbon credits be issued by the project organization. Projects are monitored during their duration to ensure goals are met and carbon absorption occurs as planned.
Ecommit conducts thorough research before investing in sustainability projects. Our procurement team assesses the effectiveness of each project's carbon offsetting approach and evaluates reliability. We consider factors such as project location, organization credibility, certifications, and numerous other criteria. Whenever possible, we visit projects to observe operations and meet stakeholders. Once all criteria are met, we finalize legal matters and buy a large quantity of carbon credits.
The sustainability transition, also known as the energy transition, involves shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable and renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower, and geothermal energy. This transition is crucial for reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change, ensuring a sustainable environment for current and future generations. It aims to protect our planet and secure livability for ourselves and future generations alike.
What our clients say
Ecommit is here for established names, start-ups, large and small businesses, producers, and service providers. Every company can choose the approach that best suits their organization.
As an oil trader, we are naturally one of the bigger polluters in the world. Therefore, it is extra important to take our responsibility.
Aers Energy B.V.
Jackij Aers
ecommit came in with a good and watertight story that fit well with what we had in mind. Together we came up with the construction to add a percentage to every customer bill. We invest this in projects that help offset carbon emissions.
Eeterij Iets Anders
Ineke Hengsdijk
Ecommit offers a convenient way to offset carbon and you contribute directly to a better world.
Fidendum-IT
Benno Faase
Ecommit offers a very easy solution to go green. And it also makes you feel good, for yourself, your company and your environment.
Lance Free B.V.
Oscar Meijerink
Normally those certificates are really something for big players, but through ecommit you can also buy a smaller piece, because they divide the certificates into small packages. That's a strong feature.
Laveto B.V.
Bart Jansen
Everyone will have to take responsibility for their emissions. I think that, as a progressive law firm, we can set a good example. And offsetting through ecommit is very accessible.
LAWFOX Advocaten B.V.
Wouter Dammers
I would like to continue to make the company more sustainable, for the company itself, but especially for the environment. I also notice that this is important to our customers.
Mia’s Restaurant & Lounge B.V.
Mia Dieleman
That's what's so great about ecommit, they create opportunities to offset carbon, in addition to what you can do to reduce emissons.
Nachtje in de Kerk
Ineke Dominicus
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When I heard about the possibilities to offset carbon at ecommit, I was keen to take advantage of them. Everything is well organised and I can always see the current status of our offsetting.
Omniboost B.V.
Kees Zorge
Clean water is important, for the future and the next generation. Reducing plastic use is part of this. Within our team, plastic bags or bottles are really a no-go. We offset our air travel and the use of motorboats during races through ecommit.
PR Sailing B.V.
Anita van Oeveren
Ecommit inspired me to completely offset carbon emissions of all of our company's projects.
Ingenieursbureau Walhout Civil B.V.
Korné Walhout
The ecommit team has ambition, exudes power and is pioneering. This suits me and that makes carbon offsetting even better.
Health by Nature B.V.
Tom Willaert
A special, new player that exudes confidence. I like to move with the times and eventually would like to be carbon neutral.
Overbeeke B.V.
Marton Overbeeke
Ecommit offers an accessible service that allows companies to cover their emissions. After all, there are emissions you cannot avoid. I really believe in the transparency of ecommit: you can see exactly which projects your investment goes to.
Dapper Rhinos B.V.
Tycho Luijten
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We offset the carbon emissions of every bottle that leaves our sanctuary through a fixed contribution. But it doesn't stop there; we offset a fixed amount monthly for every litre that leaves our church.
The Holy Spiritus B.V.
Tom en Goderic
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During our GetUnlocked event we offset the carbon emissions of all 190 visitors via ecommit.
Stichting Dockwize
Marlon Baarends-Schroevers
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Ecommit supported us in introducing carbon offsetting to our customers.
32 Eten & Drinken V.O.F.
Foort
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As a young company, we believe it is important to think about how we can make a positive impact on the climate.
DDE - Video Agency
Stijn Langedijk
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At Impuls Zeeland we strive not only to make things as sustainable as possible, but also to clean up our remaining carbon emissions.
NV Economische Impuls Zeeland
Dick ten Voorde
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Even as a small business owner it is possible to offset carbon and make an impact.
9to9 officemanagement
Marjolein Gernler - van Westen
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Ecommit makes your investment in certified sustainability projects transparent.
Villa Viva Partner B.V.
Diana de Koeijer
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Reducing my emissions is key, but I am also keen to explore how our other products, such as spectacle cases, can be sourced more sustainably.
Kijk! Bij Hanneke B.V.
Hanneke Boone
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Lubo International strives for an industrial world that is sustainable, efficient and future-proof. Ecommit keeps me up to date with the latest developments around regulation and legislation when it comes to carbon emissions.
Lubo International B.V.
Peter de Bruine
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We are aware that we cannot (yet) make our operations sufficiently sustainable and that is why we offset our carbon emissions via ecommit.
Schoudee Horeca B.V.
Andrea Dekker - Pieterse
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We want to reduce our footprint and by offsetting our carbon emissions we make faster progress.
Hotel & Brasserie Katoen
Vivian en Ron Diephout
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Sustainable entrepreneurship is a dynamic process that changes along with your company. The great thing about ecommit is that it moves with you during this process. Ecommit offers customized solutions at every stage.
CoPower4U
Mirjam Koole
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We are working with ecommit on a project for sustainable mussel farming in the Zeeland North Sea and on a new reforestation project in Brazil.
OOS International B.V.
Léon Overdulve
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CEO Holding OOS-International Group B.V.
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We are always looking at how we can become more sustainable as a company. Our surveillance vehicles are now hybrid, we recycle electronics and company clothing, and we have started carbon offsetting through ecommit.
Reaction Security B.V.
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We process large quantities of paper, use digital systems that continuously consume energy and receive clients in the office on a daily basis. All these processes generate carbon emissions. Besides being conscious of our energy consumption, we take responsibility by investing in carbon offsetting.
Axent Notarissen
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