Step Towards a Greener Future Idaho

When you buy carbon credits from Terrapass, your purchase supports emissions reduction projects in communities across North America and the world. These projects include reforestation, renewable energy produced by wind power, and methane capture at dairy farms, landfills, and abandoned coal mines. carbon credits help fund the development and operation of these projects. All Terrapass projects meet the highest quality, monitoring, and independent verification standards. To learn more about the projects in our current portfolio, please visit our Project Portfolio.

We do this in several ways. Before adding a project to our portfolio, we perform due diligence to understand the impact of each project fully. Once in our portfolio, we monitor the projects and verify all of the emissions reductions that are occurring. Finally, all projects in our portfolio must pass the “additionality” test. Additionally, it refers to whether your carbon credit purchase brings about carbon reductions or whether the reductions would have occurred regardless. If the carbon credit purchase is a critical factor in driving the reductions, the reductions are said to be “additional” to the business-as-usual case. By verifying and checking at each step, we remain committed to ensuring our projects are clearing the air. Learn more about Terrapass’ Project Portfolio accountability.

Yes. To ensure maximum transparency and accountability, every Terrapass carbon credit purchase is verified by an accredited and independent third party at the project level when and where the credits are created. In addition, our total carbon credit portfolio is subject to a separate periodic review by a different accredited and independent third party. Read more about our verification practices and standards.

Carbon tax is a form of carbon pricing. It is a pricing surcharge on goods, services, processes, and activities contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. The amount that users are required to pay is determined through carbon pricing. It can be imposed at various levels of government and impact individuals and organizations differently. It is a way to have users of carbon fuels pay for the climate damage caused by burning fossil fuels.

A carbon credit represents a verified reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Your purchase is confirmed through email, and you will receive a certificate. If you are offsetting an event or wedding, we will customize a certificate to display during your event.

Our driving emissions calculator uses fuel economy data from the Environmental Protection Agency to estimate the miles per gallon of your car or truck. By coupling this information with an estimate of the number of miles driven, we can determine how many gallons of gas have been used. From here, converting gallons of gas to pounds of carbon dioxide is a simple calculation. If the final figure seems higher than you expected, remember that gasoline triples in weight when burned and turned into carbon dioxide.

Our home energy emissions calculator asks you to input your ZIP code and average energy bill data. With this, we can accurately estimate your annual energy consumption. We then convert this estimate of your total annual energy consumption into an estimate of carbon dioxide emissions. Although this technique yields a good approximation, you can refine the result by entering more specific data.

Our flight emissions calculator asks you to input the origin and destination for any flights you want to offset. We then calculate the distance of each of these flights. By applying standard factors for fuel consumption during airline flights provided by the World Resource Institute, we can convert your total flight miles into estimated carbon dioxide emissions.