Carbon compensation is a powerful concept that allows you to take responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions you produce. Whenever you travel by car, plane, or even use electricity, you release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. This can contribute to global warming and climate change.
Carbon compensation lets you balance out those emissions by supporting projects that actively reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere (reforestation, regenerative agriculture, mangroves protection…). You offset the emissions you can't avoid, making a positive impact on the environment.
At the company level, carbon compensation plays a key role for companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint:
🔥 Climate Change: Compensating carbon emissions reduces greenhouse gases and mitigates climate change impacts.
🌿 Environmental Responsibility: Offset your emissions to show commitment to sustainable practices and responsible resource management.
🤝 Social Impact: carbon compensation isn't just about reducing emissions. Many compensation projects prioritize social and economic benefits for local communities.
⚖️ Conservation & Balance: Offset projects support biodiversity preservation and sustainable development alongside emissions reduction.
📝 Policy Compliance: Compensating emissions helps meet regulations, targets, and industry standards.
NooS supports companies in their climate protection initiatives by enabling them to offset their carbon emissions via certified climate action projects (also known as compensation projects).
Supporting these projects is equivalent to buying carbon credits. When a company donates to certified climate action projects through any of our products, we make sure to purchase the corresponding credits.
Even so, we understand that compensating CO₂ emissions is the last step of a comprehensive climate protection strategy. Therefore, we team up with environmental services organizations to encourage our clients to assess their carbon footprint (1st step) and develop an emissions reduction plan (2nd step).
We are not against carbon compensation (3rd step). On the contrary, we understand it is indeed necessary to achieve global climate goals as it enables financing projects that positively impact the Planet and our society, that is they reduce or avoid carbon emissions.
In short, we don't question the effectiveness of carbon credits but we are careful in selecting the climate action projects that issue them.
NooS climate solutions focus on two main aspects:
Our clients: we go beyond CO₂ emissions compensation. We encourage companies to transition to low-carbon business models by encouraging them to assess their carbon footprint and develop a reduction strategy. We partner with climate action experts for this purpose.
Our projects: At NooS, we are experts in vetting truly impactful social and environmental projects. Our Impact Team puts great emphasis on selecting climate action projects that:
🌱enlarge the ecosystem's capacity to sequestrate CO₂ from the environment (i.e. reforestation or regenerative agriculture) and avoid CO₂ emissions (i.e. generation of renewable energy). This means our approach is based on emissions reduction.
🌏 have a lasting social, economic, and environmental impact on local communities where our clients operate (i.e. France) and abroad. Projects are in line with the SDGs.
✅ are certified by Governments (i.e. the French Label bas-carbone) or Carbon Certification Standards (e.g Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, etc.)
In addition, NooS partners with certified environmental services organizations that directly implement, assess, or certify climate action projects.
Climate action projects found in the NooS portfolio are certified by: Gold Standard, Social Carbon, and soon Label bas-carbone.
<aside> 💡 International carbon projects: the world is interdependent and our actions generate impact -positive or negative- not only at a local but also at a global level (i.e. climate change). Thus, we offer the possibility to support projects in different locations. Remember that populations in developing countries are the most affected by the consequences of climate change (floods, droughts, cyclones, etc), even when they have done little to cause it.
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Companies interested in supporting climate action projects and obtaining a compensation certificate are offered first the possibility to assess their corporate carbon footprint (if they haven’t done it yet).