How the estimate works

As a contributing member, you see a single figure: the tonnes of emissions your contributions are expected to help reduce or remove. This page explains how we arrive at that figure, and why we keep it deliberately cautious.

What we support

ClimateCurrent supports projects that reduce or remove greenhouse-gas emissions. We look for projects whose results can be measured and checked, and we report on the projects we support as they get under way.

From the start, we co-finance methane projects that need extra funding to go ahead, together with others who fund them too. At the same time we build towards a first site of our own.

How expected tonnes are set

For each contribution, we set the number of tonnes we expect it to help achieve. We deliberately set this figure on the cautious side, so that it is more likely to be exceeded than missed. The figure in your account is the total for all your contributions.

Looking at the whole picture

Projects deliver at different rates and over different periods, so we assess results across all projects together rather than one by one.

For a project we co-finance with others, we count only our share, in proportion to our part of its funding.

Where your contribution goes

Two things may come off a contribution: payment processing costs, and part of the costs of running ClimateCurrent, such as the platform, our team and independent checks of the work we fund.

Everything else goes to climate projects. The expected tonnes are calculated as if both already came off.

Corrections

We do everything we can to make sure the figure in your account holds. Should results nevertheless fall short, we will correct the figure and explain why.

What the figure means

The figure shows what your support is helping to achieve. It is not an offset of your own emissions and does not make you, or anything you do, "climate neutral" or "carbon neutral".

Work we fund may earn certificates, which ClimateCurrent may sell to fund more methane work. A buyer of a certificate may count its tonnes for itself. The figure in your account stays as it is when that happens, and work funded with what such sales bring in is not added to it.