Climate Action Cannot Wait

Whether you’re a startup or a Fortune 500 company, you can make a real impact on your carbon footprint with the help of verified carbon credits.

Climate action is a global business imperative.

 
  • Just getting started? Start by powering your business with renewable energy. Even if it’s not available in your area, the request itself drives demand and accelerates adoption. From there, Cool Effect can help you map next steps.
  • Account for your yearly travel: Travel emissions are growing as our society increasingly moves around. Decarbonization strategies are in motion, but they’ll take years to reach full potential. In the meantime, a high quality carbon credit funds climate mitigation directly, and we can help you easily calculate and offset your corporate travel footprint.
  • Be part of the solution: Whether your business has a detailed record of carbon accounting or is just starting with scopes 1 and 2, consider how you can reduce emissions first and offset what’s unavoidable. The supply of high quality carbon projects is limited and pricing is complicated in the voluntary carbon market. So if you’re considering climate action, the time to start is now.
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Building Trust with The Seller’s Pledge

We understand putting resources toward sustainability matters for your business, and we want to build trust with our valued partners. Our Seller’s Pledge is a legal commitment to transparency: 0 hidden fees, ever. More than 90% of every donation goes directly to the project, plus our small administrative fee of just 9.87%. That’s it. If there’s a registry fee, a wire fee, or any other type of fee, we’ll tell you upfront.

It’s part of Carbon Done Correctly, our methodology for finding and funding only the highest quality carbon projects.

 
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Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

Our calculators provide a simple way to offset your carbon emissions.

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How Your Business Can Help the Environment

There are many ways you can make a difference, and we offer a range of helpful tools, including educational materials, advice on calculating your footprint and sustainable business practices. Learn how to make your business more environmentally friendly.

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Success Stories

Take a look at some of our recent programs and see how we’re helping companies of all sizes make a positive impact.

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Large Buyer? This guide can help.

Check out the new comprehensive carbon offsets guide for corporate-sized companies. This extensive report provides important insights on carbon offset programs, common criticisms, and what makes a high-quality carbon offset for large-scale businesses.

Projects That Help the World

Cool Effect provides businesses a unique and transparent way to help people and heal the planet. Take a look at our certified projects available in any quantity for purchase. We offer volume discounts for large quantities. Contact us to get started today.
Honduras

Breath of Fresh Air

This project constructs cookstoves in rural homes that provide clean air and health benefits to poor, rural families in Central America.
Myanmar

Sea of Change

This Blue Carbon project works to plant mangroves which saves the shorelines and removes carbon while helping the locals thrive.
Alaska

A Bearadise

These important old growth forests will reduce about 1.5 million tonnes of carbon in 30 years. This project ensures the survival of these trees, providing a safe home for the animals and clean air for Earth.

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We Are an Approved Nonprofit Partner

Cool Effect is a nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, an organization designed to help businesses of all sizes realize and act on their responsibility to protect our planet. A 1% for the Planet seal indicates that a business donates 1% of its annual sales to environmental nonprofits, and we’re proud to be a part of such a passionate, action-oriented global movement. 1% for the Planet does not have a special process for payments. Make your purchase with Cool Effect and mention 1% for the Planet.

Our Approach

Our approach allows businesses to confidently support amazing projects, whatever their shape and size. Since launching at the 2015 Paris climate conference, the Cool Effect community has channeled more than $85 million directly to high quality carbon projects, adding up to over 10 million tonnes of carbon emissions reduced.

Unlike other providers, we add another layer of scrutiny to project documentation and personally visit projects on-site. In the past year alone, our team has visited more than 20 carbon projects around the globe. Because we are a nonprofit, our fee structure is transparent to both buyer and seller, with 0 hidden fees and more than 90% of every donation going directly to the project.

Programs That Are Scientifically Proven, Transparent, and Successful

Our range of programs is stable, sound, and allows companies and employees to make a difference. With total transparency, we offer companies many ways to take action and see results: going completely carbon neutral, offsetting business and conference travel, calculating carbon footprints, or educating team members. Every program we offer is good for the planet AND its people. Our experience has helped brands of all sizes take action by supporting amazing projects.

We Let You See Everything

We share both the benefits and challenges of each project, along with the pertinent scientific documentation approved and accepted by international standards such as the Gold Standard, the Verified Carbon Standard, Plan Vivo, and the Climate Action Reserve. We are clear about our fees: 0 hidden fees, and a 9.87% administrative fee added to the cost per tonne negotiated with the project. That’s it.

A Nonprofit Without Bias

Cool Effect is a unique nonprofit that works with businesses and organizations of all sizes. We believe that every tonne counts, and that’s why we work hand-in-hand with companies to figure out the best projects and donations to fit their budgets and goals.

We Carefully Analyze Every Project

Our range of global projects is scientifically verified, carefully selected, and meticulously analyzed by a United Nations Designated Operational Entity or other qualified verifier to ensure they reduce carbon emissions. All of our projects must meet the toughest requirements of the world’s major carbon standards before we’ll consider them for our platform. We also conduct on-site visits to confirm projects are doing what they claim. In the past year alone, our team has visited more than 20 carbon projects around the globe.

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