Bigfoot only offers projects that work with highly-regarded international carbon registries to verify their climate impact.
All of these registries work with accredited auditors to check that the projects comply with their verification standards and to confirm the climate impact that the projects have. More information on the registries, verification standards, and audits can be found on each project's page.
Only removing previously emitted CO2 is not enough; it must also be stored in a stable location. That’s why our primary quality metric for carbon removal projects is permanence—the duration for which the removed carbon is securely stored without leaking back into the atmosphere.
While natural solutions like trees and soils are effective at removing CO2, they do not provide stable storage and can release CO2 back into the atmosphere after a short period.
Projects must demonstrate that carbon removal credits sales are required to implement a project and that the project is not simply taking credit for an existing activity that would have taken place anyway.
This concept is known as additionality. If the emission removals would have happened anyway, without the additional income from selling the carbon removal credits, then the project does not provide a true climate benefit.
We understand that you want to know where your money goes, so we're showing you the money. The exact percentages can differ a bit for each project due to rounding, so if every 0.1% counts, you should check the project pages or follow the link below.
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Check this out!We’re Sébastien & Marnix—just two friends living our (not-so-climate-friendly) lives when it hit us: climate change is a big deal, and, well, we were part of the problem.
Sure, we knew we should be living more eco-friendly and to a certain extent that's what we did, but let’s be honest, there’s only so much you can do. And we weren’t exactly ready to ditch everything and go live in a tent, surviving off berries in the woods.
Then we stumbled upon carbon offsetting and carbon removal. It seemed like we’d found a solution! But pretty quickly, we realized that nothing out there really worked for us. It was all too focused on businesses, with a lot of low-quality options thrown in.
So, we decided to fix that. That’s how Bigfoot was born—to make carbon removal available for everyone, in a way that’s easy, transparent, and hopefully, a little entertaining.