11 September 2018
Why do companies buy carbon offsets voluntarily?
ZeroMission has ten years’ experience of working with over 150 companies of all sizes and types. Our customers express their reasons for offsetting in different ways but essentially they do it for two reasons:
to follow the ”polluter pays” principle
to drive their business
The polluter pays principle is enshrined in law, both nationally and at EU level, for environmental impacts such as toxic waste. The scope of the regulations is gradually being extended, for instance to include the costs of recycling packaging and taking back products at the end of their useful life.
Companies that pay for their climate pollution are contributing on behalf of all of us to reducing the risk of...