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Carbon Retirement is the best way to offset your carbon footprint. We allow you to directly influence industrial carbon emissions in Europe.

Carbon Retirement uses your money to purchase carbon allowances out of the EU Emission Trading Scheme. This is the EU's central tool for cutting carbon emissions. It works by giving heavy industry a fixed number of allowances to emit greenhouse gases.

Each time we buy an allowance, we retire it. Retiring permanently removes allowances from the market so they are unavailable to the industries that would otherwise use them as rights to pollute. You buy emissions out of the system.

Use Carbon Retirement to offset unavoidable parts of your carbon footprint. Or you could retire more carbon for fun — and for the sake of the planet.

This approach is better than other types of offsetting, because:

Traditional offsetting		Carbon Retirement
	The actual volume of the reduction is difficult to measure.		Emissions in the EU Emission Trading Scheme are clearly measured and audited.
	It's hard to know whether your money has achieved something that wouldn't have happened otherwise.		All Carbon Retirement emission reductions are additional to existing plans.
	Reductions are made in the developing world, while emissions at home remain high.		All reductions are made within the European Union.
	The reduction may be reversed in the future.		All emissions are permanently removed from the market.

Read more about the differences between Carbon Retirement and traditional offsetting.

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