Clear guides to understanding your carbon footprint and climate impact
Practical, plain-language explanations to help you understand carbon footprints, offsetting, and how ClimeOne works — without jargon or overclaims.
Start with the basicsGetting Started Guides
Foundational guides to help you understand carbon footprints, carbon offsetting, and how to get started with ClimeOne.
Offset & Project Guides
Guides explaining how carbon offset projects work, how they are verified, and how ClimeOne selects and supports them.
Lifestyle & Household Guides
Practical guides covering how everyday activities like travel, home energy use, and diet affect your carbon footprint.
Offset Anything & Practical Action Guides
Step-by-step guides for offsetting specific purchases, trips, events, or one-time activities.
Common Questions & Misconceptions
Clear, honest explanations that address common questions, concerns, and misconceptions about carbon offsetting and climate impact.
Getting Started Guides
Foundational guides to help you understand carbon footprints, carbon offsetting, and how to get started with ClimeOne.
How to Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
Learn what a carbon footprint is, what factors matter most, and how ClimeOne estimates your impact.
What Is a Carbon Footprint?
A plain-language explanation of carbon footprints and why they are estimates, not exact measurements.
What Carbon Offsetting Does — and Does Not Do
Understand the role carbon offsetting plays, its limits, and how it fits into broader climate action.
How ClimeOne Estimates Carbon Impact
A transparent overview of how ClimeOne uses publicly available data to estimate carbon impact.
What Happens After You Offset Carbon
Learn what happens behind the scenes after you make an offset contribution through ClimeOne.
Offset & Project Guides
Guides explaining how carbon offset projects work, how they are verified, and how ClimeOne selects and supports them.
How Carbon Offset Projects Work
Learn the basics of carbon offset projects and how they create environmental impact.
Carbon Removal vs Emissions Reduction: What’s the Difference?
A clear explanation of two major categories of carbon projects and their roles.
How Carbon Projects Are Verified
Understand how independent verification helps ensure project credibility.
What Additionality Means (Without the Jargon)
Learn what additionality means and why it matters for offset credibility.
Why ClimeOne Uses a Portfolio of Projects
Learn why supporting multiple projects helps balance impact and risk.
Lifestyle & Household Guides
Practical guides covering how everyday activities like travel, home energy use, and diet affect your carbon footprint.
The Biggest Sources of Household Carbon Emissions
A breakdown of the major contributors to household carbon footprints.
How Transportation Affects Your Carbon Footprint
Understand how different transportation choices influence emissions.
Flying and Carbon Emissions Explained
Learn why flying contributes significantly to carbon footprints and how emissions are estimated.
How Diet Impacts Carbon Emissions
A practical look at how food choices influence carbon footprints.
Home Energy Use and Carbon Impact Explained
Learn how home energy consumption contributes to carbon footprints.
Offset Anything & Practical Action Guides
Step-by-step guides for offsetting specific purchases, trips, events, or one-time activities.
How to Offset a Flight
Learn how to estimate and offset the carbon impact of a flight.
How to Offset a Large Purchase
Understand how to estimate and offset emissions from major purchases.
Can You Offset a Wedding or Event?
Learn how to think about carbon impact for large gatherings and events.
What Does It Mean to Offset a Product?
A clear explanation of what it means to offset the emissions associated with a product.
How to Estimate Carbon for One-Time Activities
Learn how ClimeOne estimates emissions for custom activities.
Common Questions & Misconceptions
Clear, honest explanations that address common questions, concerns, and misconceptions about carbon offsetting and climate impact.
Does Carbon Offsetting Actually Work?
An honest look at the effectiveness and limitations of carbon offsetting.
Is Carbon Offsetting a Scam?
Understand why skepticism exists and how credible offsetting works.
Why Carbon Calculations Are Estimates
Learn why exact carbon measurements are not possible.
Can You Be Truly Carbon Neutral?
A realistic explanation of carbon neutrality for individuals.
What Carbon Offsetting Can't Do
An honest discussion of the limits of carbon offsetting.
Built for clarity, not confusion
ClimeOne's guides are designed to explain how carbon footprints and offsetting work — including their limits. We focus on transparency, reasonable estimates, and clear explanations so you can make informed decisions without pressure.
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