Before carbon offsetting, it is important to take action to first reduce your organisation’s carbon emissions. Carbon management will enable your organisation to reduce your carbon emissions as well as significantly reducing your running costs. You should then offset any carbon that you can’t practically reduce.

There are three main ways in which your organisation can reduce its carbon footprint:

1. Direct emissions reduction – This involves implementing cost-effective energy efficiency measures, such as heating and lighting upgrades, using new process technologies and delivering staff training and awareness programmes. In addition, this can include developing low-carbon energy sources such as on-site renewable generation.

2. Indirect emissions reduction – Indirect emissions are emissions that arise from working with organisations across the supply chain. Identifying these presents opportunities to make significant cuts in emissions and energy costs. Carbon Clarity can provide advice and support on reducing emissions through your procurement process and working with your supply chain.

3. Carbon offsetting – After acting on both direct and indirect emissions, the final stage in a carbon management strategy is to offset any remaining unavoidable emissions. Carbon Clarity provides a robust and secure means of acheiving this.

Once your organisation has minimised its carbon emissions, you can offset the remaining unavoidable emissions through Carbon Clarity’s secure and transparent offsetting process.

Our offsets meet the UK Government's proposed Code of Best Practice and, through our investment programme, help UK students reduce their carbon emissions through energy education at school.