A carbon credit is a unit of measurement used when carbon offsetting. It represents the avoidance or removal of one metric ton of CO₂ from the atmosphere.

Once a climate project is developed, monitored, verified and certified as a legitimate carbon offset project by a recognised standard such as the Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), carbon credits can be issued and sold. The price of carbon credits can vary depending on factors such as the project type and market demand. The revenue generated from the sale of carbon credits is used to finance and support these projects. It helps cover the costs of implementing and maintaining them. The funds go towards project development, operational expenses, or community initiatives associated with the project.

The purchase of carbon credits is a financial incentive for the continuation and expansion of these projects, allowing them to make a tangible and measurable impact on the environment.

All CarbonClick credits have been permanently retired and cannot be reused, ensuring a real, positive impact on the climate today.

Carbon offsetting is a form of climate action that is used to compensate or ‘give back’ for emissions that can’t yet be avoided. This is done by making a positive impact on the environment elsewhere, by investing in climate projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere or avoid emissions.

First, the amount of carbon that is emitted by a business, individual or activity is calculated. The result of this is called a carbon footprint. Once you know your footprint, you can purchase the equivalent amount of carbon credits. These credits represent avoidance or removal of greenhouse gases equal to your footprint.

The money from buying credits goes to projects that help tackle the climate crisis. These projects can be renewable energy initiatives, forest conservation, reforestation and others.

Our flight emissions calculator tool uses datasets of the Travel Impact Model which was developed by Google. The Travel Impact Model (TIM) has emerged as a leading standard for flight emission calculations and has been adopted by industry leaders like Google Flights, Skyscanner, Booking.com, Expedia, Sabre and Amadeus. The model combines flight origin and destination, aircraft type, cabin class and seat configuration, load factors and average aircraft utilisation to estimate CO2e emissions for each flight (per seat/passenger). For further information, read more.

CarbonClick enables businesses and their customers to take meaningful climate action through high-quality, fully transparent carbon offsetting. CarbonClick has developed a rigorous auditing process to select the best climate projects and offers instant traceability to any contribution received. CarbonClick is a certified B Corporation, meeting the highest standards of social and environmental impact.

The money paid to CarbonClick for carbon credits goes towards certified carbon offset projects that have met high quality standards and passed their 7-Point Impact Check. The funds are distributed amongst carbon offset suppliers carrying out the projects and CarbonClick takes a small margin on the carbon credits for sourcing projects, quality assurance, administration and transaction fees.

CarbonClick is committed to making carbon offsetting tangible and transparent. We do this by providing full transparency on how we select our projects, our methodologies and the positive impact that is being made. Anyone offsetting with CarbonClick can instantly trace every transaction to the projects it supports. You can even see the retirement certificates for every kg of CO₂ offset. Relevant links to the retirement certificates of the projects are provided in purchase confirmation screens and pages, as well as our website.

SailGP adopts a climate positive approach to compensating for the carbon emissions emitted within the organisation's direct operational control. This means that SailGP adopts a reduction-first approach to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions – ensuring measurement across all material scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. SailGP works to reduce emissions as far as possible - with a target to reduce absolute carbon emissions by 55% by 2025 - using our first season (2019) as a base year. Where emissions remain, SailGP has developed a verified offsetting strategy meaning that for unavoidable emissions, SailGP compensates for at least 10% more than remains.

Firstly we try to reduce our travel footprint as much as possible - it’s not easy being based so far away from many of the iconic global cities in which we race, but we limit the number of support team members that travel with our team, and we all fly economy class which has the least impact of all the classes. The unavoidable emissions from our team flights are included in SailGP’s verified offsetting strategy, where SailGP compensates for at least 10% more than remains.