Carbon offsetting in your company's sustainability plan

You can mitigate, reduce, and/or offset the carbon emissions of your company. Mitigation and reduction involve choosing not to perform certain activities in your business, altering them, or limiting them. These changes require adjustments, investments, and time. Compensating involves paying to remove (part of) the carbon you have emitted from the atmosphere. This action can be initiated promptly.

Ecommit can advise your company on any questions regarding carbon emissions. We only sell carbon credits from certified and registered projects. This ensures that a project effectively contributes to carbon offsetting and that carbon credits cannot be double-sold. Ecommit neutralizes the carbon credits and provides your company with all necessary documents for accounting and reporting. Our entire process from purchase to sale is publicly traceable on the blockchain.

Carbon offsetting involves removing CO2, or carbon dioxide, from the air that you (currently) cannot avoid or reduce. Sustainability projects aim to either capture carbon from the air or reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.

Carbon offsetting is absolutely meaningful. In fact, it is essential for achieving the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, as outlined in the Paris Agreement. Research* indicates that solely avoiding and reducing carbon emissions will only achieve about fifty percent of the necessary reduction level. Carbon offsetting is seen as the only way to bridge that gap.
* Source: The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal (2023)

Every person, every company emits carbon. Driving cars, using electricity, sending emails - almost all our actions result in emissions. Scientists have determined that carbon levels in the atmosphere are increasing, leading to global warming. To mitigate this warming, many initiatives have been developed to remove carbon from the air. These include projects that harness the potential of plants, trees, and oceans to store carbon. There are also machines designed to capture carbon directly from the atmosphere. However, these projects require investment to operate. Issuing carbon credits is a way to finance these initiatives.

Ecommit collaborates with sustainability projects both domestically and internationally that offset carbon. Before investing in any project, thorough research is conducted. The project must be certified, and its carbon credits registered. Subsequently, ecommit offers carbon credits in any desired quantity. Your company can offset carbon through a fixed amount, a specific quantity of carbon, or via your product or service.

A sustainability project removes carbon from the air. Nature provides various opportunities for this, including plants, trees, and oceans storing carbon. There are also technological solutions, such as machines that capture carbon from the air or water. To implement these groundbreaking initiatives, funding is required. Ecommit invests in diverse sustainability projects carefully selected based on rigorous criteria. Your company can purchase carbon credits from one of these projects. This way, you offset carbon emissions and promote sustainability within your business.

Reducing or even preventing emissions is the best course of action. However, this is not something that can be achieved overnight. Your company needs to explore feasible alternatives, which involves significant investments and adjustments to business processes. To achieve climate goals, Oxford University advocates for companies to start offsetting emissions now. By reducing emissions, the reliance on offsetting can be gradually reduced in the future. However, there will always be residual emissions, necessitating ongoing carbon offsetting efforts.

Yes. Carbon offsetting and carbon removal both mean removing emitted carbon from the atmosphere. Other terms that also mean the same thing are: carbon capture, CDR or carbon dioxide removal, and CO2 capture.