FAQ's

We are building a platform to empower individuals and businesses to calculate their carbon emissions and offset them. We work with carefully selected partners to ensure that sustainability and social integrity are ingrained in our approach from the start.

We have now launched our flight offsets, business offsets and are in open beta for our carbon offset subscriptions. You can help shape our product by becoming a beta user today.

Collective action only works at scale, and it requires every one of us. That includes you. Taking steps to offset your carbon is one of the biggest measures you can take toward becoming carbon negative.

We all possess the capability to make lifestyle choices which define our relationship with the planet. When made collectively, these decisions can have profound effects, and their impact is amplified. Simply put, if we all make a change today, our impact as a group will be huge. This is the power of collective action.

At its core, an offset is a mechanism that seeks to balance the scales on pollution. We do this by channeling funds into projects that actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This means you can remove the carbon dioxide you have produced. This is carbon offsetting. However, we want to stress it is still better to reduce your carbon footprint in the first place than offset and live an emission heavy lifestyle. But we also acknowledge this cannot always be done. This is where our offsetting schemes come into play.

You can commit to a carbon-neutral lifestyle via our offset subscriptions or you can opt simply to offset flights on an ad-hoc basis. Why flights? Because they are one of the biggest discrete contributors to our emissions.

We collect subscription payments each month, making payment to our partners in the subsequent calendar month. Your contributions are always ring-fenced in our account until they are sent to the projects you support.

We only work with partners who can verify their offsets. As such, for each tonne you pay to offset, we receive retire a carbon credit which is assigned to us. This provides a widely accepted mechanism which confirms that offsets actually take place.

We carry out our offsets using a portfolio approach. This has several benefits, ensuring we can support a wide breadth of forestry-based action, reducing risks to our offsets, and protecting ourselves from sudden changes in price from the projects we support. As such, we aim to give a good mix of projects, supporting a little of everything.

Ensuring we work with appropriate partners to offset your carbon is crucial. We will only support projects which offset carbon in a truly sustainable manner, with partners who have social integrity ingrained into their business model.

Additionality - the carbon savings would not go ahead without the money we invest. Permanence - carbon savings will be sustained over time, ensuring their longevity. Verifiability - there are robust processes to ensure carbon is offset as described.

We believe the climate crisis has been the elephant in the room for too long. There's a huge amount of space for government and corporations to play their part, but there's also a need to act collectively, as individuals. We are building this platform to enable this, and the sooner we can spread the word, the better.

Not satisfied with our above answers? Feel free to email us at support@settleup.earth