The Carbon Offset Guide is designed to provide potential buyers with a simple understanding of offsets, what to buy or not to buy, where to buy them, how to calculate them and much more.

With Carbon Zero and Carbon Neutral all the rage how can these 21st century environmental status symbols be achieved without emissions reduction to zero? Offset is how, the purchase-based solution to climate change prevention. Offsets and carbon trading may have an important role to play but this is a complex and confused debate, especially for first time buyers of offsets.

With so many providers and so many complicated and exotic products it is often hard to make an informed choice. By using some of the information we have provided we hope you will be better able to assess how offsets actually work and whether or what to buy. The information in this site is independently collated and you cannot buy offsets from this site, although it will lead you to many websites that do.

None of the providers contained in the searchable directory are endorsed by us and the information contained is solely for the purpose of helping you make a choice, which may be not to purchase at all. The ratings provided for companies are based only upon the ease of use and clarity of information delivery from their websites and should not be used as an indicator of product quality.

The online guide was created by The Carbon Consultancy, a leading emissions management company, that supports companies and individuals to report, manage and reduce their emissions. In the course of its work The Carbon Consultancy is continually confronted by questions on offsets and the Guide is a response to this.