I encourage people to offset, but think of offsets as just intentionally paying the costs of externalities from their lifestyle rather than as part of their charity budget.
If you do decide to offset, know that offsets differ greatly in permanence and risk.
You need to buy ~10x the “planting trees” offsets to equal the permanence and risk of a permanent direct air capture and geologic sequestration offset. Use this calculator to compare:
https://carbonplan.org/research/permanence-calculator
My current recommendation for offsets is https://tradewater.us/, which purchases and destroys high global warming potential refrigerants. It’s a permanent counterfactual offset with few displacement/additionality concerns and they are relatively cheap (~$17/ton).
I encourage people to offset, but think of offsets as just intentionally paying the costs of externalities from their lifestyle rather than as part of their charity budget.
If you do decide to offset, know that offsets differ greatly in permanence and risk.
You need to buy ~10x the “planting trees” offsets to equal the permanence and risk of a permanent direct air capture and geologic sequestration offset. Use this calculator to compare: https://carbonplan.org/research/permanence-calculator
My current recommendation for offsets is https://tradewater.us/, which purchases and destroys high global warming potential refrigerants. It’s a permanent counterfactual offset with few displacement/additionality concerns and they are relatively cheap (~$17/ton).
Thank you for your post here.
Do you know how these compare with Clean Air Task Force, Carbon180, Future Cleantech Architects or ITIF?
Why does this comment have so much less karma than the others on this post? It seems reasonable to me, am I missing something?