Carbon negative project sourcing

ClimateHound takes all the guesswork out of your carbon reduction and avoidance strategies.

Your funding supports four
types of climate projects

Renewable Energy
Natural Solutions
Clean Cookstoves
Emerging Technology

Renewable Energy

The food and beverage industry uses fossil fuel energy through production and modification of raw ingredients, manufacture of products and packaging, service supplies, refrigeration, and more. Renewable energy offsets, such as wind and solar farming, mitigate that consumption of fossil fuels.

“The promise and appeal of renewable energy has long been clear: clean, inexhaustible, domestically sourced electricity could lead to enormous environmental, economic, and resiliency benefits.”
– The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Natural Solutions

Forestry management and other conservation practices protect the ecosystems that consume carbon dioxide – like emissions from supplier, distributor, and delivery vehicles – from the atmosphere. Offsets can also address soil health to sequester carbon, which creates an opportunity for growers supplying raw ingredients to practice more climate-friendly farming.

“Older forests store a lot more carbon than young forests and much of it is returned to the atmosphere quickly when harvested and planted with young trees.”
– Beverly Law, professor emeritus of global change biology at Oregon State University

Clean Cookstoves

About a third of the world’s population currently burns solid fuels like wood, charcoal, or animal dung for cooking, and that affects both global emissions and the health of communities, mostly in developing nations. Clean cookstoves use solar power, thermal efficiency, and other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas production and save lives.

“Imagine cooking indoors, on the ground, on a smoky, open fire…This is the reality for families all around the world and it is so dangerous and unhealthy, that globally, more than 4 million people die from health issues caused by unclean cookstoves each year… [and] burning of wood fuels is responsible for around 2% of climate warming CO2 emissions.”
– World Central Kitchen

Emerging Technology

Packaging and food waste in landfills releases methane, a major contributor to greenhouse gases. Using anaerobic digesters to break down the gas also releases electric power and heat to harness in place of fossil fuels for even greater downstream impact. Another exciting technology, direct air carbon capture and storage, scrubs carbon dioxide right off the air, just like plants and trees.

“If you pump a ton of carbon out of the ground, you will need to take a ton out of the air…I’m saying this is a war, and we need to use all the weapons at our disposal.”
– Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University

Offset Markets

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The People Behind the Partnership: ClimateHound and StoveTeam International

The story of an offset with special meaning for the food and beverage industry. “Carbon offsets” can sound abstract, but behind every project, there are experts and entrepreneurs with the passion to create a healthier planet.

by The ClimateHound Team | 4min read

A Beginning and a Baseline: What is Cap and Trade, and How Can We Do Better?

Cap and trade systems have been an important tool in raising corporate and public awareness about measurable ways to address climate impact, but they can also suggest that going carbon neutral is so hard and so expensive for businesses that nothing short of government regulation can make it happen. That’s not the case!

by The ClimateHound Team | 4min read