Find your path to carbon neutrality
Founded: 2008
Status: Nonprofit
Processing Fee: None (12-14% overhead is built into carbon offset pricing)
Website: http://www.ClimatePath.org
In their words:
Of the dozens of ways to tackle climate change, conservation and offsetting can have the most immediate impact. By directly and indirectly reducing your carbon footprint, you can lead the charge in a cleaner, greener, and cooler planet. But we know that not everyone can or wants to become carbon neutral in the same way, and the idea that buying carbon offsets is like buying generic gas at the pump is just plain wrong. Many projects subsidize 'dirty' industries or lack credible standards. Others have health, economic, biodiversity, and other benefits that deserve your support.
Our mission is to let you offset and conserve in the way that is right for you. We commit to bringing you radical transparency for each offset project, so that you can decide where your money goes. We commit to talking about conservation not just in easy tidbits, but presenting deeper objective analysis, and leaving it up to you to figure out how to best minimize your footprint. We want you to be part of the conversation, to proudly talk about what you're doing, and to help solve the problem by enlisting others in the fight.
The bottom line is that you know more about your life and your values than we do. We'll provide a whole host of ideas for making your footprint smaller, and verifiable mission driven projects to offset the rest. You take it from there.
ClimatePath provides web and media services to encourage conservation activities and support for carbon reducing projects worldwide. Moral/ethical obligations aside, supporting these projects is a voluntary and philanthropic activity, and is therefore best accomplished through a non-profit partner organization, called the ClimatePath Ecologic Fund. Your donations to retire carbon offsets are made directly to and through the Fund. The Fund retains a small portion of the donation to cover expenses, and the rest is passed on to the project provider.
