Carbon offsetting is an internationally recognised way to take responsibility for unavoidable carbon emissions. In simple terms, offsetting one ton of carbon means there will be one less ton of CO2 in the atmosphere than there would otherwise have been. When you buy Carbon Credits from Relief International, you lessen your personal impact on the environment and help bring us closer to a carbon-neutral world.

Relief International will send you a certificate with a unique number, recognising your carbon offsetting, and a receipt for your payment. We then contact Gold Standard and they permanently retire the credit(s) so they can't be reused. Finally, we reinvest your funds with the fragile communities with who we work across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, to help them build resilience in the face of climate change.

No. Because your transaction enables the purchase of goods, it is not currently tax deductible.

Relief International’s Gyapa™ Cookstove Project provides clean, efficient cookstoves to families in Ghana. Each efficient stove uses about half the fuel of traditional alternatives, which not only cuts carbon emissions and reduces pressure on local deforestation, but also saves families money. The project has cut five million tonnes of CO2e over the past 12 years with over 20,000 stoves being produced monthly and 1.9 million stoves sold in total. Overall, the project supports more than 600 local manufacturing and retail jobs. In addition to providing employment and income, the project invests in local producers training and skills and to improve working conditions for those in the stove manufacturing process.

We are proud to have our Carbon Credits program independently verified by the Gold Standard. Third-party monitoring in coordination with the CO2 emissions experts at ClimateCare ensures our project is providing a real reduction in carbon. To put it simply, it’s verified impact.