2020 in review: 6.5 Million pounds CO2 reduced, expanding our positive impact on people and planet
The summer of 2018 brought unprecedented wildfire destruction fueled by climate change. This had a direct impact on us and dozens of families we knew personally. The silver lining was the birth of Offset Alliance, making it convenient for people to help credibly lower global CO2 levels in ways that benefit communities locally and abroad.
This has been a grassroots movement, growing through commitments from our community of concerned individuals and business owners. We’ve accelerated our collective impact even through a year that was challenging in so many ways, and we are incredibly grateful to all of our supporters for helping Offset Alliance get off the ground. We’ve established the foundation we need to have an even bigger impact in 2021 and beyond. Happy 2021!
Measured CO2 reductions
This is our key performance indicator, helping drive our positive impact on communities both locally and globally. Every pound of CO2 reduced through our verified carbon offset projects delivers benefits in-line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. *This number does not include CO2 reductions made by Offset Climate Certified businesses.
Our expanding footprint
Our growing community of small businesses, individuals and non-profits committed to taking measurable, meaningful climate action is fast expanding to cities across the US. The reality is that CO2 emissions have a global impact, and so do the CO2 reductions made through our verified carbon offset projects.
Community and market alignment
While our impact is global, we’re fully committed to helping drive positive change in our local community. We’re also committed to ensuring our members’ climate action is transparent.
Business for Good San Diego
Climate action is most effective when it’s sustainable, and that’s only possible through social equality and opportunity. We joined Business for Good to play an active role in our community in addressing important issues unique to our region, and others that are universal-like homelessness, immigration and environmental health.
Verra
To date our carbon offsets portfolio spans across the world’s leading public registries, including Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry and Verra. With our focus narrowing to projects throughout the Americas, and to ensure that our Offset Climate Certification program meets global best practices for transparency, we have become a Verra market member. All Offset Climate Certified businesses have carbon offsets retired in their name on the Verra public registry. Example
San Diego Regional Green Business Network
More than 330 businesses have joined the San Diego Regional Green Business Network, as part of their commitment to making their operations more efficient, less wasteful and cleaner. We joined as a resource for regional businesses to partner with when they’re ready to make a Net Zero 2030 commitment and start making measurable and credible CO2 reductions.
Planting the very best trees
There’s plenty of tree planting initiatives out there, but very few can match the positive social impact and biodiversity benefits of our Trees for Bees program in southern Nicaragua. Each tree planted helps fund a Junior Rangers program that’s been developing tomorrow’s nature stewards since 2012.
Reforesting projects typically plant 455+ trees per acre, and in many cases use a mono–cropping approach for maximum tree cover. The priority with Trees for Bees is biodiversity regeneration–so a max of 285 (indigenous) trees are planted per acre and closely monitored and maintained for at least five years to ensure a healthy foundation for future growth.
More about the Junior Rangers Program
Nicaragua’s unique biodiversity and landscapes were significantly damaged during its revolutionary war in the 1980’s and recovery in the 1990’s. Our non-profit partner Paso Pacífico (a 501(c)(3) certified organization) is dedicated to regenerating biodiversity in southwest Nicaragua, and at the center of these efforts is a unique Junior Ranger program-instilling the passion and knowledge that younger generations need to safeguard conservation gains and strengthen their communities for life. To date more than 400 Junior Rangers have been graduated from this program.