LiveNeutral purchases emissions reduction credits from Greenhouse Gas Services LLC because of the demonstrated effectiveness and credibility of its projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These reduction credits are part of a growing voluntary and pre-compliance market designed to help make environmentally beneficial projects and clean technologies cost-effective and even profitable for businesses. Furthermore, LiveNeutral donates $0.25 for every ton we sell to the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute’s Scholarship Fund to help people in developing countries afford the training they need to effectively manage and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in their country.
Read beneath the graphics for a more in-depth description of how we use the market to offset your personal emissions. Or take a look at our Q&A section further down.
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Everyone has a carbon footprint. Carbon Dioxide (‘Carbon’) is the main greenhouse gas behind climate change. Your carbon footprint is unique to you. How you travel, use electricity, and even how you eat are all factors. Companies also have a carbon footprint. Their footprints can be quite a bit larger.
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Like you, many companies want to make their footprints smaller. Carbon markets were created to help them do this. These markets often set emissions reduction targets, and participants track their progress in reaching these goals. Companies who exceed their goals can trade carbon credits with those who fall short. Companies who fall short, can buy credits from other companies who didn’t need all of theirs, or they can support clean technology and sustainability projects like the ones LiveNeutral offers. In the big picture, as companies reach their goals and support sustainable projects and technologies, carbon emissions drop each year.
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With LiveNeutral, you can vote with your dollars to drive greater emission reductions. First, you calculate your carbon footprint. Then, you buy and retire credits for that amount. This active market gives companies a reason to make their footprints even smaller by implementing clean technology and other sustainability initiatives.
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The result? Fewer greenhouse gases. Responsible companies, responsible people. And a healthy and sustainable planet for everyone.
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LiveNeutral gives everyone the power to stop climate change. From individuals to businesses to nonprofits to schools, we help you calculate and then neutralize your carbon emissions. By no means do we consider offsets The Answer to global warming. But its one of the best ways we know of to start reducing the threat of global warming today.
Pollution is pollution. How is it possible to neutralize emissions?
You neutralize your emissions by helping to fund certifiable emissions reductions that are taking place elsewhere in amounts equal to the emissions you generate. Example projects include ones that capture and destroy methane from landfill sites, generate renewable energy and protect native forests. For example, if your car emitted 12,000 lbs. of CO2 last year, your contribution would support 12,000 lbs. pounds of verified, CO2 reductions today.
Those 12,000 lbs are equal to about 620 gallons of gas. When you offset them it is the same as taking one car off the road for a year, thereby making your driving for one year carbon neutral. You can play with more equivalencies at this site
Where do these carbon reductions come from?
When you buy a carbon-neutral certification from LiveNeutral, we buy third-party-verified emissions reduction credits on your behalf through Greenhouse Gas Services LLC. These reduction credits then function as an offset for your emissions. These credits represent the highest-quality, third-party-verified, emissions reductions credits available today.
How exactly are emissions reduction credits generated?
We work exclusively with Greenhouse Gas Services, LLC (GHGS). GHGS invests in and develops projects that reduce or prevent emissions of some of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases. These projects, in turn, produce high-quality greenhouse gas (GHG) credits. Projects include those that capture and destroy methane, a gas 21 times as potent as carbon dioxide, from landfill and agricultural sites, waste water treatment plants and coal mines. Greenhouse Gas Services is also exploring opportunities from precision farming and energy efficiency as future sources of emission reductions.
What is Greenhouse Gas Services LLC
Greenhouse Gas Services, LLC invests in and develops a diverse range of projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and supplies U.S. companies with real, independently verified GHG credits.
Companies can use these GHG credits to offset their own greenhouse gas emissions or to offset emissions created in connection with consumer products and services. Companies that purchase GHG credits from Greenhouse Gas Services can be certain that what they are doing is truly helping to reduce greenhouse gases. Here’s why:
High-quality solutions
Greenhouse Gas Services invests in and develops a diverse range of emissions reduction projects. Each GHG credit is verified by an independent third party and certified by Greenhouse Gas Services to an appropriate Standard of Practice.
A source you can trust
GHGS is a venture formed by GE Energy Financial Services and the AES Corporation, and has the carbon market expertise, project development skills and financing credentials to provide companies with high-quality GHG credits they can trust.
Why would a major corporation voluntarily reduce its emissions?
Believe it or not, many companies sincerely want to do the right thing. There’s also a financial incentive. In addition, it has become increasingly apparent that climate legislation is looming in the U.S. Congress and major corporations are likely to be affected. Thus companies who are building expertise in the carbon markets now could have an advantage if future legislation takes the form of a cap-and-trade market to address carbon emissions.
Can I buy credits directly from Greenhouse Gas Services LLC?
Typically, GHGS does not sell small amount of credits, such as those needed to offset a family, event, or even a small corporation. Through a special relationship forged by LiveNeutral, with assistance from ClimateCHECK, we have engaged GHGS successfully in helping make these high quality carbon credits available to a wider base of people interested in taking action on climate change.
We like to think of it as an experiment in democracy, opening the market to public participation. Not only does your participation neutralize emissions, but it also matures and develops a cutting-edge market in pollution reduction. When governmental policy eventually catches up to the markets (and it will), you’ll already be a part of the solution
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