Please be advised that, effective March 31, 2026, we have discontinued our Carbon Credits offerings.
A carbon credit offset, or carbon offset, is one tool you can use to help "offset" your carbon footprint. Your carbon footprint is a broad way to describe how much GHG, or Greenhouse Gas emissions are produced by your day-to-day activities, like driving to work, cooking dinner, or turning on the lights. Many of our seemingly benign actions generate these emissions.
A carbon credit is certified by governments or other credible organizations to represent an emission reduction of one metric ton of CO2 or the equivalent amount of other GHGs as the result of certain emission reducing or offsetting projects. The buyer of the carbon credit can "retire" the credit to offset their own carbon emissions, making the complete transaction a "carbon credit offset." The Carbon Offset tool in the IMPACT app combines both the purchase step and the retirement step for you in one easy to use interface. The IMPACT app does not permit purchasing carbon credits without retiring them.
You can use the Carbon Offsets feature in the IMPACT app to offset some of the more popular GHG-emitting activities related to household, transportation, and food. Simply select an activity to offset, pick a quantity (for example two years of electricity usage) or enter a quantity in dollars or tons, then submit the order to purchase the carbon offset.