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Where the 20 comes from.
And why it isn't about your footprint.

One place in ClimateCurrent stops about 20 tonnes a year. To give that number a meaning, here is what it sits next to.

Put it
next to your life.

What most people manage to cut themselvesabout 1 t

A few get to 2 tonnes. Very few, changing everything, reach 3.

The whole footprint of an average Europeanabout 10 t

One place in ClimateCurrentabout 20 t

The world's richest tenth: anyone earning more than about $41,000 a yearabout 32 t

24 tonnes of CO₂ alone. CO₂ is about three-quarters of all greenhouse gases, so with the rest it comes to about 32.

Tonnes a year, per person. Your own cuts: Wynes & Nicholas (2017). Average European: World Inequality Lab (Chancel, 2022). Richest tenth: Oxfam, Climate Equality (2023), 2019 data. Share of CO₂: PBL. These footprints are measured over 100 years, our tonnes over 20, because that is when methane does its damage. Read them side by side, as an indication, never as a sum.

This is not about
offsetting you.

The comparison gives you a sense of scale: for many people who can afford it, one place is in the range of their own footprint. That is all it is for. We don't match your footprint, and we don't sell you a clean conscience.

What matters is that you choose the level you can afford. €19.80 a month is our recommendation, about a coffee a week. Whatever you choose, we make every euro stop as much warming as it can, and we show you what it does.

How a tonne
gets counted.

  1. 01MeasuredGas flow and methane content, continuously on site, corrected for temperature and pressure.
  2. 02BurnedThe flare's efficiency is monitored, so only methane that is actually destroyed counts.
  3. 03DeductedWhat would have happened anyway, and the project's own emissions, come off the total.
  4. 04CheckedAn independent auditor verifies the result. Then each tonne is counted once, for whoever paid for it.

Based on the recognised method for landfill gas projects (ACM0001). The 20 tonnes per place is an estimate; once a site runs, you see its measured figures.

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