Compensators
Support for an approach to financing climate change mitigation measures: Compensators aims to contribute to climate protection through the acquisition and retirement of emission allowances.
Join researchers who believe that no one on the market has the right to pollute
Compensators defines itself as "the smart way to offset your carbon footprint. Together we're buying emission allowance and decommission it." Compensators was founded in 2006 as a non-profit association powered by volunteers. Its goal is to cancel excess emission allowances in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The fewer emission allowances on the market, the lower CO₂ emissions have to be. Compensators also provides educational courses and sessions about the ETS, which is Europe’s main tool for fighting climate change.
Hendrik Schuldt and David List, Compensators directors
Compensators takes a market-based approach to climate action
Compensators is striving to achieve important Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to environmental protection, namely clean energy (SDG 7) and climate protection measures (SDG 13). What we like most about Compensators though is their indirect approach. By buying up emission allowances and taking them off the market, Compensators is ensuring that it will be more expensive to pollute in the future. Smart, isn’t it? willbe likes smart.
Our focus on long-term impact is smart too. In the short term, your CO₂ balance may fall short of the benchmark.
