We Do The Homework —
And You Can Check Our Work
Carbon credits vary widely in quality. OffsetC takes that seriously.
We partner with CNaught to source carbon credits from a diversified portfolio of projects. Before choosing CNaught, we evaluated its approach to project quality, portfolio construction and independent assessment. We examine the projects and evidence behind the credits available through the portfolio.
And we make that information available to you.
What We Look For
Durability
How long will the climate benefit last?
Additionality
Would the emissions reduction or removal have happened without carbon-credit funding?
Verification
Is the project's climate impact measured and verified according to recognized standards?
Environmental & social impact
Does the project contribute to broader sustainable-development goals?
Carbon-market integrity
Does it align with emerging standards such as the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles?
Why a Portfolio?
No single type of carbon project is perfect. Different approaches have different strengths, risks, costs and levels of durability.
CNaught's Impact Portfolio draws from multiple types of carbon projects. This diversification helps spread project-specific risk while supporting both established approaches and newer carbon-removal technologies.
The diversity also allows CNaught to fulfill offsets each month, as any single project may be unavailable in that period.
A blended portfolio also helps keep overall costs down while allowing CNaught to allocate a portion to emerging technical-removal projects that are currently much more expensive. By supporting these technologies today, we hope to incentivize innovation and cost reductions that could allow them to represent a larger share of the portfolio in the future. We view that as important to increasing the amount of carbon you can remove from the atmosphere over time.
See The Full Portfolio
Want to see what's behind the portfolio? Review the complete project list, including project type, location, registry, methodology and independent ratings.
A Closer Look at Our Research
We take a closer look at each project in CNaught's Impact Portfolio. Here are deep dives into several individual projects that show how we evaluate them—what each does, how its carbon credits are generated, what independent rating agencies have said, and the strengths and risks we considered.
These are not projects you select in the OffsetC app. The projects available through CNaught's portfolio change over time, and the credits purchased and retired on your behalf depend on portfolio availability.
Conservation
Long-lived Removal Technology
