This Earth Day, Give One Back - Tradewater

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give one back by offsetting emissions with Tradewater

Give One Day Week Month Back To The Planet

Here at Tradewater, we’re playing our part to fight climate change by tackling an urgent issue that few others are focused on: Non-CO2 emissions. Our mission is to permanently prevent the world’s most potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases from releasing into the atmosphere and provide high quality, verified carbon offsets.

There are many ways to get involved, and every bit will help us in our fight to mitigate non-CO2 emissions. Choose to give one back to the planet by offsetting one day, one week, or one month worth of emissions.

Offset One Day
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Offset One Week
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Offset One Month
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Offset One Day
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Offset One Week
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Offset One Month
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Based on average household emissions

Together, we can prevent catastrophic climate change

There's no time to waste.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released their latest report, and it’s not good news.

They previously determined that we must limit global warming to no more than 1.5o C above pre-industrial times to prevent catastrophic climate change, and the latest report finds that we will surpass that number by 2030.

It’s clearer now than ever that if we want to save our planet, it’s going to take everyone. Governments, businesses, global policy makers, NGOs and even individuals all have a role to play in giving our planet a fighting chance.

Did you know?

Once non-CO2 gases are released into the atmosphere, they quickly do their damage and cannot be removed through nature-based solutions or other technologies.

This is why every scenario for achieving the 1.5o C target requires an immediate reduction of non-CO2 gases.

Stopping the release of these gases buys more time for longer-term strategies focused on CO2 reductions and removals to be developed, adopted, and implemented globally.

But there’s another problem. There isn’t nearly enough funding to tackle this issue—not even close.

Thankfully, we’ve identified a solution—one that everyone can play a role in.

Non-CO2 gases account for nearly half of all global warming from human activity since 1970.

Did you know?

Once non-CO2 gases are released into the atmosphere, they quickly do their damage and cannot be removed through nature-based solutions or other technologies.

This is why every scenario for achieving the 1.5o C target requires an immediate reduction of non-CO2 gases.

Stopping the release of these gases buys more time for longer-term strategies focused on CO2 reductions and removals to be developed, adopted, and implemented globally.

But there’s another problem. There isn’t nearly enough funding to tackle this issue—not even close.

Thankfully, we’ve identified a solution—one that everyone can play a role in.

Non-CO2 gases account for nearly half of all global warming from human activity since 1970.

Offset your carbon emissions with Tradewater

Interested in giving more to the planet?

Customize your climate commitment by entering your desired budget or total emissions here. 

Contribute to the planet every month by subscribing monthly or choose to offset your emissions in a one-time payment.

Enter your desired budget
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Populate your climate commitment budget (USD) or the total emissions (CO2e) you would like to offset by entering in your custom amount above.

Offset your carbon emissions with Tradewater

Interested in giving more to the planet?

Customize your climate commitment by entering your desired budget or total emissions here. 

Enter your desired budget
$ USD
Offsets
CO2e
tons for one year.

*Populate your climate commitment budget (USD) or the total emissions (CO2e) you would like to offset by entering in your custom amount above.

Contribute to the planet every month by subscribing monthly or choose to offset your emissions in a one-time payment.

The Criteria for High Quality Credits

Carbon offset credits are not all created equal. If you have carbon neutral goals and want your climate investment to play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, you should purchase high-quality, verified carbon offsets that support high-impact carbon offset projects – those with the highest degree of additionality, accuracy, and permanence.

Tradewater works to permanently prevent the world’s most potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases from releasing into the atmosphere and provides high quality, verified carbon offsets.

Additional

It is a basic requirement of all carbon offset projects that the underlying project activities are additional. “Additional” means that the projects would not happen in the absence of a carbon market.

Accurate

High quality carbon offset credits come from projects in which the resulting credits are “accurate” or not overestimated. All of our project types are scientifically and definitively measured and verified.

Permanent

Emission reductions are considered permanent if they are not reversible. This is not the case with all carbon project types. Our projects result in permanent emissions reduction.

The Criteria for High Quality Credits

Carbon offset credits are not all created equal. If you have carbon neutral goals and want your climate investment to play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, you should purchase high-quality, verified carbon offsets that support high-impact carbon offset projects – those with the highest degree of additionality, accuracy, and permanence.

Tradewater works to permanently prevent the world’s most potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases from releasing into the atmosphere and provides high quality, verified carbon offsets.

Additional

It is a basic requirement of all carbon offset projects that the underlying project activities are additional. “Additional” means that the projects would not happen in the absence of a carbon market.

Accurate

High quality carbon offset credits come from projects in which the resulting credits are “accurate” or not overestimated. All of our project types are scientifically and definitively measured and verified.

Permanent

Emission reductions are considered permanent if they are not reversible. This is not the case with all carbon project types. Our projects result in permanent emissions reduction.

Do You Understand Your Carbon Footprint?

Use our free carbon calculator to easily discover your emissions and learn how you can achieve carbon neutrality.

Beyond our calculator and offsetting options, we have solutions for businesses of all sizes to reduce their emissions and multiply their climate impact. Visit our partnership page to learn more.

Calculate Your Carbon Footprint​

Household

Calculate the everyday emissions associated with your lifestyle and household.

Business

Calculate your business's carbon footprint and become a Carbon Neutral Business.

Travel

Calculate the emissions from your business and personal trips or vacations.

Event

Calculate the emissions from your events, like a wedding or conference.

Do You Understand Your Carbon Footprint?

Use our free carbon calculator to easily discover your emissions and learn how you can achieve carbon neutrality.

Beyond our calculator and offsetting options, we have solutions for businesses of all sizes to reduce their emissions and multiply their climate impact. Visit our partnership page to learn more.

Calculate Your Carbon Footprint​

Household

Calculate the everyday emissions associated with your lifestyle and household.

Business

Calculate your business's carbon footprint and become a Carbon Neutral Business.

Travel

Calculate the emissions from your business and personal trips or vacations.

Event

Calculate the emissions from your events, like a wedding or conference.

Tradewater generates carbon offset credits by collecting and permanently destroying harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the form of refrigerant gases through a safe, verifiable process. If not destroyed, these GHGs would eventually be released into the atmosphere.

Permanence

Emission reductions are considered permanent if they are not reversible. In some projects, such as forestry or soil preservation, carbon offset credits are issued based upon the volume of CO2 that will be sequestered over future decades—but human actions and natural processes such as forest fires, disease, and soil tillage can disrupt those projects. When that happens, the emission reductions claimed by the project are reversed.

The destruction of halocarbon does not carry this risk. All destruction activities in Tradewater’s projects are conducted pursuant to the Montreal Protocol , which requires “a destruction process” that “results in the permanent transformation, or decomposition of all or a significant portion of such substances.” Specifically, the destruction facilities Tradewater uses must meet or exceed the recommendations of the UN Technology & Economic Assessment Panel , which approves certain technologies to destroy halocarbons, including the requirement that the technology achieve a 99.99% or higher “destruction and removal efficiency.” Simply put, this means that Tradewater’s technologies ensure that over 99.99% of the chemicals are permanently destroyed. During the destruction process, a continuous emission monitoring system is used to ensure full destruction of the ODS collected.

Accuracy

Some carbon offset projects necessarily rely on estimations or assumptions when calculating the emission reductions from project activities. Forestry projects, where developers make assumptions about the carbon that will be sequestered over future decades if trees are conserved, are a perfect example. Such projects sometimes result in an overestimation of the environmental benefit of the project.

Tradewater’s halocarbon projects avoid the issue of overestimation by consistently conducting extremely precise testing and measurement of the amount of refrigerant destroyed in each project.

  • Every container of ODS that Tradewater destroys is weighed by a third-party using regularly calibrated scales. The ODS is then sampled by a third-party and analyzed by an accredited refrigerant laboratory to determine its species and purity. These two steps combine to ensure that credits are issued only for the precise volume and type of refrigerant destroyed.
  • The destruction facilities that Tradewater uses continuously monitor the incineration process during destruction events to ensure that over 99.99% of the ODS is destroyed. This monitoring is mandated by regulatory protocols and is part of the verification process to which projects are subjected.
  • Tradewater accounts for the project emissions created during the collection, transport, and destruction of ODS, and the number of offsets issued is reduced by a corresponding amount. The protocols that we use also build in other reductions to account for substitute chemicals that will be used to replace the destroyed refrigerants. Tradewater publishes this information in the documentation for all its ODS destruction projects. These documents outline how the material was obtained, the project emissions calculations, the test results, and the amount and type of ODS chemicals destroyed, among other information.
  • Additionality

    It is a basic requirement of all carbon offset projects that the underlying project activities are additional. “Additional” means that the projects would not happen in the absence of a carbon market. Tradewater’s halocarbon projects simply would not happen – and the gases would be left to escape into the atmosphere – without the sale of the resulting carbon offset credits. This is because there is no mandate to collect and destroy these gases. It is still permissible to buy, sell, and use halocarbons that were produced before the ban. There are other reasons halocarbon destruction projects are additional:

    • There are no incentives or financial mechanisms to encourage halocarbon destruction. According to the International Energy Agency and United Nations Environment Program, “there is rarely funding nor incentive” to recover and destroy ozone depleting substances in storage tanks and discarded equipment. And collecting, transporting, and destroying halocarbons is time-intensive and expensive. The burden to collect and destroy these gases therefore remains prohibitive outside of carbon offset markets—meaning that if organizations like Tradewater do not do this work, nobody else will.
    • Countries are not focused on the need to collect and destroy halocarbons. The Montreal Protocol has been celebrated as a success because of its production ban. This success, however, ignores the legacy gases produced before the ban and is a blind spot for government regulators. In the U.S., for example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed a Vintaging Model in the 1990s to estimate the quantify of ozone depleting substances left in circulation. Based on the inputs and assumptions put into the model, the EPA predicted that no CFCs would be available for recovery beyond 2020 in the United States. But this prediction did not prove accurate. Tradewater has collected and destroyed more than 1.5 million pounds of CFCs globally in recent years and continues to identify thousands of pounds per week.
    • International carbon accounting standards do not require corporations to measure or track emissions tied to halocarbons, and refrigerants are specifically excluded from Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) commitments. These commitments derive from emissions reporting under the GHG Protocol, which requires companies to report on emissions only from new generation refrigerants, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), but does not establish any obligation to report inventories or emissions of refrigerants still in use, such as CFCs and HCFCs. All these factors combine to make Tradewater’s carbon offset projects highly additional. As Giving Green, an initiative of IDinsight, concluded: “Tradewater would not exist without the offset market, so this element of additionality is clearly achieved.” The case for additionality is not so clear for some other project types, such as forestry and landfill gas carbon projects. For example, some forests are already being conserved for their beauty, or for use as parks, and generate carbon offset credits only because those conservation efforts do not yet have full formal protection in place to avoid deforestation in the future. Similarly, methane from landfills can be used to make electricity or captured as compressed natural gas, thereby creating additional revenue streams to support the activities, beyond the sale of carbon credits.