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Every action we take today shapes the world for tomorrow. At ClimateHero, we believe that together, we can leave a legacy of hope, clean air, less emissions and opportunity for future generations.

Climate Projects: A Collective Journey to a Healthy Planet

At ClimateHero, we believe that climate action is more than just an individual effort - it’s about coming together to drive real, measurable change. Offsetting carbon footprints isn’t a substitute for reducing emissions, but it’s a powerful complement. By offsetting with us, you’re contributing to impactful projects that deliver verified environmental and social benefits, all aligned with principles of additionality, permanence, and transparency.

Why Choose ClimateHero to balance emissions you cannot yet reduce?

At ClimateHero, we’re committed to making a real difference in the fight against climate change. Here’s why you can trust us to deliver impactful, sustainable results:

✅ Gold Standard Certification – When choosing to invest in our portfolio of Gold Standard projects, this means projects that meet the stringent UN Gold Standard certification, endorsed by organizations like WWF. These projects have been subject to the toughest auditing requirements regarding verifiable climate benefit and social improvement. Each project undergoes independent third-party verification to ensure tangible climate benefits while engaging local communities.
✅ Portfolio – The investment is done through a diverse portfolio of climate projects to maximize impact while minimizing cost and risk. This spreads risk much like a mutual fund, ensuring greater security and broader social benefits than selecting a single project.
✅ Additionality – Every project we support generates carbon reductions that wouldn’t happen without your contribution. Your support ensures real and measurable climate benefits while avoiding a false sense of achievement.
✅ Transparency You Can Trust – Independent annual audits validate that the carbon offset volumes match user contributions.

How ClimateHero Projects Work

We support a diverse portfolio of Gold Standard-certified projects to spread risk while maximizing impact. Each initiative is carefully chosen to meet the highest standards of sustainability, additionality, and permanence, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All projects contribute to climate action (SDG 13), and by offsetting with ClimateHero, you also support an additional six development goals:

💰 SDG 1: No Poverty
🌍 SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
📚 SDG 4: Quality Education
🔆 SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
💼 SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
🏗 SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
🌱 SDG 13: Climate Action
🤝 SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Our projects

ClimateHero focuses on projects where the climate impact is greatest and the transition is most urgent. By supporting international projects, we ensure that contributions go to regions where they make the biggest difference – both in reducing emissions and promoting sustainable development.

Safe Water Uganda - Expanding access to safe drinking water across communities, reducing reliance on firewood and coal for boiling, preventing deforestation, and lowering CO₂ emissions while improving health and economic opportunities.

Nigeria Cookstoves - Reduced fuel consumption through efficient cookstoves in households and small businesses, lower CO₂ emissions, improved health, and strengthened economic opportunities for thousands of families.

Solar Water Heating India - Installation of solar water heaters on household roofs in India. Inhabitants now get warm water from the sun instead of coal power plants.

Geothermal Energy Turkey - In Turkey's Aydin province, geothermal energy is now utilized. It is a great complement to wind and solar power, as it is not dependent on the weather.

Solar Power India - Installation of solar power across India, replacing electricity supply previously based on fossil fuels.

Methane Digesters China - Biogas digesters that both eliminates the use of coal power and prevents the emission of methane gas from utilized waste.

Wind Power India - Building and installing windmills in India, which is currently heavily dependent on fossil fuels for electricity generation.

Safe Water Uganda – Today, 81% of Uganda’s population lacks access to clean water, forcing families to boil unsafe water with firewood or coal. This leads to deforestation and increased CO₂ emissions. By investing in clean water solutions, we reduce the need for firewood, protect forests, improve health, and create new opportunities for local communities.
Nigeria Cookstoves – Today, many households and small businesses in Nigeria rely on inefficient charcoal stoves, leading to high fuel consumption, increased emissions, and health risks. By distributing energy-efficient cookstoves, the project reduces fuel consumption by up to 50%, lowering CO₂ emissions, improving health, and providing economic savings for thousands of families. The project contributes to reducing poverty, increasing access to cleaner energy, and driving powerful climate action.
Solar Water Heating India – Today, 90% of people living in cities in west India use direct electricity to generate hot water. Since hot water represents 20–30% of the electricity usage, and India’s electricity mix today heavily relies on fossil fuels, this has a significant negative climate impact. Neutech Solar solves this by distributing solar water heaters that are installed on household roofs.
Geothermal Energy Turkey – In Turkey’s Aydin province, geothermal energy is now being harvested. It is a great complement to wind and solar power, as it is not weather-dependent. Turkey has a growing energy demand where the majority of the energy supply is still generated by fossil fuels. The geothermal energy plant helps to phase out coal, oil and natural gas.
Solar Power India – Installation of solar power in across India, replacing electricity supply previously based on fossil fuels. The project helps to accelerate the phase-out of coal, oil and fossil gas.
Methane Digesters China – Installing biogas digesters fueled by pig manure, for local households. This is an extremely effective project since it both eliminates the households’ use of coal and prevents methane gas (which is 30 times more detrimental than CO2) from the pig manure from escaping into the atmosphere. Besides the positive climate impact, the project also enables better air quality and new green jobs.
Wind Power India – The projects builds and installs windmills to generate electricity in western India, which is currently heavily dependent on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Apart from the large climate benefit, it also creates green jobs and a safer method of providing electricity.

Durable Removals (Biochar)

In addition to supporting Gold Standard projects that reduce climate emissions, ClimateHero also funds projects that capture carbon dioxide already present in the atmosphere and store it in stable form in the ground for hundreds of years.

This is achieved through the production of biochar, where residual biomass is converted via pyrolysis into a carbon-rich and highly stable material. When biochar is added to the soil, the carbon is bound long-term while soil quality can also be improved.

The method involves actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making it an important complement to emissions reductions. Biochar is today considered one of the most reliable solutions for long-term carbon capture and storage.

Since this method is more costly, approximately ten times the cost per ton, biochar is not currently included in our standard portfolio for climate action. However, we offer both individuals and businesses the opportunity to purchase carbon credits in biochar via the link below. It is also possible to choose a distribution where a portion funds biochar and a portion funds Gold Standard projects.

👉 Explore how the price of offsetting emissions varies with different proportions of Biochar here.

Audit

ClimateHero uses a third-party auditor to validate our carbon offset practice. The objective of the audit is to ensure that ClimateHero acts in compliance with stipulated policy and ensures that the offset volumes in climate projects match the volumes bought by ClimateHero’s users. The audit is conducted in conjunction with the financial closing of books each fiscal year. The first audit took place in 2018, and annual reports are expected to be published by June of the following year.

Join Us and Make a Difference

The most effective way to fight climate change is through real emission reductions. That's why we believe in this three-step approach:

1️⃣ Calculate your footprint – Understand your climate impact with our easy-to-use carbon calculator.
2️⃣ Commit to reducing emissions – Get personalized tips on how to lower your carbon footprint in your daily life.
3️⃣ Contribute to climate action – Support Gold Standard-certified projects to compensate for the emissions you cannot yet eliminate.

Every step counts – and together, we can build a sustainable future.

👉 Calculate your individual footprint here or balance a general footprint of 10 tonnes CO₂e here.

👉 Are you a company or an organisation? Contact us and we'll help you calculate your emissions.