Carbonfund.org is a leading environmental group that gets a lot of attention for offering carbon offsets to companies and individuals, as well as for its public climate change educational campaign. But what exactly are carbon offsets? How do they work? What does Carbonfund.org do? Ivan Chan, Carbonfund.org’s communications director, spoke with IzzitGreen:
IzzitGreen: How did Carbonfund.org start? What was the inspiration behind it?
Ivan Chan, Carbonfund.org’s communications director: Carbonfund.org started in 2003 by Eric and Lesley Carlson. Seeing little government action on climate change, the Carlsons saw Carbonfund.org as a way for many individuals and companies to donate toward making market transformation happen, from reliance on fossil fuels like coal to supporting clean energy, energy efficiency and forest-based projects that are reducing emissions. Carbonfund.org has grown to over 600,000 supporters and has worked with over 1,800 businesses to fight climate change. Together we are reducing over 5 billion pounds of carbon emissions worldwide — that’s more than the carbon footprint of some developing countries.
