What is Carbon Offsetting?

"Our everyday actions consume energy and produce carbon dioxide emissions, for example, driving a car, heating a home or flying. Offsetting is a way of compensating for the emissions produced with an equivalent carbon dioxide saving" (DEFRA).

Carbon offsetting is not a cure but what it does do is help reduce the impact of our actions.

Plant Trees

Planting trees is one of the easiest ways to offset your carbon footprint and become carbon neutral. Trees absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and wood as part of the process of photosynthesis, which allows them to grow.

Through this process CO₂ is converted into stored carbon, thereby removing it from the atmosphere and offsetting our polluting lifestyles.

It is estimated that each tree planted 'offsets' your environmental impact by 'breathing' in about 730kg CO₂ emissions over its lifetime. If the average person needs to save about 7000kg of CO₂ per year, then planting just 10 trees each year will go some way to helping you become carbon neutral.

With your help we will plant 50,000 trees, which in our estimates, will offset 36,500,000kg of carbon dioxide.