# ClimateCurrent

> ClimateCurrent brings people and companies together to fund climate work, and lets you follow what your part sets in motion. It is run by ClimateCurrent OÜ (commercial register code 17585921). Companies, and the colleagues they invite, can take part now; joining for yourself opens in November. To start, ClimateCurrent will co-finance methane projects that can't go ahead without extra funding, with a partner it is choosing now. At the same time it is building towards its own first site, financed with a lender.

Taglines: "Your spark starts a current.", "For the current climate. Despite the current climate." and "Think locally, act globally."

## Key facts
- Legal entity: ClimateCurrent OÜ, commercial register code 17585921, first registered 28 August 2026.
- Management board: Frank Ewout Cochius. Contact: contact@climatecurrent.eco.
- Started on 24 October 2026, the International Day of Climate Action, because this is about action you can take yourself.
- Companies: a company pays for a place for each of its people. They join for free, in their own name, if they want to. Suggested price €19.80 per person a month; €49.50 and €9.90 are also possible. Prices are before VAT. Pay monthly, or once for 12 months. Details: https://climatecurrent.eco/for-companies/
- Founding companies: the first 999 companies that pay at least €99 a month, before VAT, become founding companies, numbered in the order that payment arrives.
- People: keep your place or sign up for the weekly newsletter. Companies can take part now. Details: https://climatecurrent.eco/how-giving-works/
- How we choose work (an aim and a method, never a guarantee): Does our money make it happen? Does it work in time? How much warming does it avoid per euro?
- Tonnes are always estimated tonnes, a cautious estimate, and always tonnes your support helped make possible, never a company's or a person's own reductions. Taking part does not offset emissions and makes nothing climate-neutral.
- Certificates from the work ClimateCurrent funds belong to ClimateCurrent, which may sell them; what a sale brings in goes back into methane work. Companies receive the tonnes they help make possible, not certificates.
- Follow the projects ClimateCurrent co-finances and its first site. ClimateCurrent will publish what the work achieves, with its method and sources. Scientific figures on the site come from named public sources (IPCC, UNEP, IEA, US EPA, European Commission) and describe the world, not ClimateCurrent results.
- Focus on methane: about 80 times the warming effect of CO₂ over 20 years, mass for mass, and roughly a decade in the atmosphere, so cuts slow warming within years.
- Thesis: people did not stop caring; they stopped believing their part adds up to anything. ClimateCurrent exists to break that cycle.

## How it works
1. Start with your company. Companies can take part now. Your company pays for a place for each of your people. Even if it's just you, your company can start a current.
2. Your people decide. Each of them decides whether to join, in their own name, and what they share. Joining for yourself opens in November.
3. The money goes to work. To start, we'll co-finance methane projects that can't go ahead without extra funding. At the same time we're building towards our own first site.
4. Follow every step. The projects we co-finance, the site we choose, who helps finance it, and what it does once it runs. The tonnes you see are a cautious estimate of what your support helped make possible.
5. Share your own link. Introduce the people around you with your own link. Whether they take part is their decision alone.

## Pages
- [Home](https://climatecurrent.eco/): what ClimateCurrent is, where the money goes, how a current forms, why methane, and the newsletter. Keep your place: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/choose. The weekly newsletter: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/notify. Companies taking part: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/boards/companies
- [For companies](https://climatecurrent.eco/for-companies/): what a company gets and pays, and founding companies. To start: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/for-companies/start. Not ready yet: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/for-companies/interest
- [The first site](https://climatecurrent.eco/first-site/): co-financing first, and our own first site with a lender. Know a lender: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/lender-introduction
- [The short version](https://climatecurrent.eco/spark/): the same story in three shorter pages, with [For companies](https://climatecurrent.eco/spark/for-companies/) and [The first site](https://climatecurrent.eco/spark/first-site/).
- [Learn more](https://climatecurrent.eco/learn-more/): every other page of the site, from the journal and the glossary to questions, news and contact.
- [Our story: why ClimateCurrent exists](https://climatecurrent.eco/our-story/): ClimateCurrent exists to close the distance between caring about the climate and seeing what your part adds up to. The story, the gap and the company behind it.
- [Why methane: the shorter clock on climate](https://climatecurrent.eco/why-methane/): Methane traps about 80 times more heat than CO₂ over 20 years and fades in roughly a decade. Why cutting it now slows warming within our lifetimes, with sources.
- [For people: still care? Good.](https://climatecurrent.eco/for-people/): Joining ClimateCurrent for yourself opens in November. Until then, the weekly newsletter tells the story one part at a time, and we email you on the day it opens.
- [Evidence: check our working](https://climatecurrent.eco/evidence/): How ClimateCurrent handles evidence: every scientific figure is sourced, every claim gets its boundary, the artwork is labelled and corrections are dated.
- [Questions](https://climatecurrent.eco/faq/): answers on taking part, paying, where the money goes, claims and data.
- [News](https://climatecurrent.eco/news/): dated, confirmed updates.
- [Contact](https://climatecurrent.eco/contact/): contact and company details.
- [How giving works](https://climatecurrent.eco/how-giving-works/): keep your place, follow the weekly newsletter, or take part with your company.
- [Cookies](https://climatecurrent.eco/cookies/): what the website keeps in your browser, and the measurement and advertising it asks consent for.
- Terms, company terms, privacy and legal information live in the app: https://app.climatecurrent.eco/terms, https://app.climatecurrent.eco/company-terms, https://app.climatecurrent.eco/privacy, https://app.climatecurrent.eco/legal

## Journal (13 articles)
- [Why people stop taking climate action: the doubt loop](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/the-loop-nobody-voted-for/): A visible shared record can break the climate participation loop, in which doubt cuts effort, the total shrinks and the smaller result seems to prove it. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Is a climate contribution an offset? Why a gift is not one](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/a-gift-not-an-offset/): Companies pay for places under the company terms. Their support funds climate work and makes no claim to cancel their emissions. People can keep their place. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Does a small monthly climate contribution make a difference?](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/the-maths-of-many/): How support adds up across companies and their people, and why a shared effort matters. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Why climate action feels pointless, and what helps](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/the-cost-of-caring/): Climate action feels pointless when effort and outcome never visibly connect. Why personal virtue is the wrong yardstick, and what an honest invitation needs. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Why cut methane now? The 20-year warming clock](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/why-methane-now/): Methane has about 80 times the warming effect of CO₂ over 20 years, mass for mass, and lasts roughly a decade. That short clock makes cutting it urgent now. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Is methane reduction cheap? What “no net cost” means](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/is-methane-reduction-cheap/): Methane reduction is sometimes cheap. The IEA finds about 30% of fossil fuel methane avoidable at no net cost, yet a sector estimate is no price per tonne. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [What do EU green claims rules ban from 27 September 2026?](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/green-claims-september-2026/): EU green claims rules under Directive (EU) 2024/825 apply from 27 September 2026, covering generic claims, sustainability labels and offset-based neutrality. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [How to verify an emission reduction claim](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/proof-has-a-paper-trail/): To verify an emission reduction claim, check the baseline, additionality, operating records and verification scope. A photo of equipment proves none of it. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [What happens at a landfill: how landfill gas is captured](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/what-happens-at-a-landfill/): Landfill gas forms when organic waste breaks down without oxygen, producing methane and CO₂. Wells, pipes and flares capture part of it, and some escapes. Updated 2026-10-21.
- [Is your carbon footprint the whole picture?](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/a-footprint-is-not-the-whole-picture/): A carbon footprint measures emissions inside an accounting boundary. Your climate influence also runs through work, votes and the groups you organise. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [How to run employee climate action that works](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/climate-action-at-work/): Employee climate action works when joining is voluntary, shift workers can take part and participation, reductions and inventory stay three separate claims. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [What makes a climate claim credible?](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/the-words-we-will-have-to-earn/): Climate claims such as transparent or measurable need visible support beside them: a time horizon, a price basis, a baseline and an easy route to corrections. Updated 2026-10-23.
- [Why ClimateCurrent exists: the first chapter](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/why-we-start-with-why/): ClimateCurrent starts with why: a question about climate participation, a journal that shows the thinking and a newsletter that tells you the day joining opens. Updated 2026-10-23.

## Glossary
- [Climate glossary](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/): 200 plain-English definitions with examples, cautions and sources.
- [Carbon accounting](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/carbon-accounting/)
- [Climate action](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/climate-action/)
- [Climate finance](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/climate-finance/)
- [Climate policy](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/climate-policy/)
- [Climate science](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/climate-science/)
- [Energy](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/energy/)
- [Methane](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/methane/)
- [Nature](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/nature/)
- [People & participation](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/people-and-participation/)
- [Trust & evidence](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/trust-and-evidence/)
- [Waste & capture](https://climatecurrent.eco/glossary/topic/waste-and-capture/)

## Optional
- [Full text](https://climatecurrent.eco/llms-full.txt): plain-text copy of the public pages, questions, articles and definitions, with sources.
- [Journal feed](https://climatecurrent.eco/journal/feed.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://climatecurrent.eco/sitemap.xml)