Offset Your Lifestyle Emissions

Once you have reduced your lifestyle emissions as much as possible, you can re-calculate your new carbon footprint using our calculators and offset those emissions which cannot be avoided through WLT’s Carbon Balanced forest conservation projects.

If you are not in a position to calculate your carbon footprint but still wish to offset, visit our fixed offsets page where you can donate to offset an emissions volume of your choosing or the average greenhouse gas emissions generated by an individual, couple, family or event.

Every supporter who donates £10.00 and above has the option of receiving a personalised Carbon Balanced certificate stating the emissions they have offset.

Carbon Balanced offsets are allocated to the most recently developed project, or that under development at the time of your donation, located in one of regions in which we work. The transfer of your donation to the project usually occurs within three months.

To enable us to make best use of donations in addressing urgent threats and opportunities, the WLT does not commit to allocating funds to any specific projects in advance. Once allocated, however, WLT can state exactly where and how each offset payment has been used.

All WLT Carbon Balanced offset projects are designed according to stringent international standards. To find out more about this, visit our project design page.

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