Carbon Offsets for Events
Make climate action part of your next event. Carbon offsets give you a way to support climate projects like forest protection and clean energy while you continue reducing your event’s emissions through more sustainable event design and operations. Whether you’re hosting a conference, company event, or concert, we make it simple to take climate action beyond your event’s footprint.
Ways to Incorporate Carbon Offsets Into Your Event
Choose the approach that fits your event, from measuring your full footprint to integrating contributions into ticket sales or engaging attendees directly. Our solutions make offsets easy, so you can focus on what you do best: planning a successful event.
Measure Your Event Footprint
Use our Event Footprint Tool to estimate your event’s emissions, then contribute an equivalent amount to climate projects.
Add a Contribution Per Attendee
Add a small climate contribution per attendee, such as 1% of the ticket price, to fund carbon offsets. It's a simple way to take action right away.
Engage Attendees in Climate Action
Embed our travel emissions calculator on your event website so attendees can estimate the footprint of getting to your event and buy carbon offsets.
You're in Good Company
From conferences to festivals, event organizers of all shapes and sizes trust Sustainable Travel International.
Offsets That Drive Climate Action at Scale
Even with steps like choosing climate-conscious venues, designing thoughtful menus, and reducing waste, events still generate emissions. Offsets help fund climate solutions that go beyond what can be achieved on-site at your event. They expand the positive impact of your event by supporting large-scale efforts to transform energy systems, protect vast landscapes, and advance emerging climate solutions. Our Climate Impact Portfolio includes:
Protecting and restoring forests that store carbon and provide wildlife habitats.
Supporting innovative climate technologies that help remove greenhouse gases.
Handpicked to Maximize Your Impact
We carefully vet every offset project that we include in our portfolio to ensure they create real, measurable emissions reductions and meaningful impacts.
Third-Party Verified
All projects are independently verified by stringent carbon standards, such as the gold standard and verified carbon standard. These standards ensure emissions reductions are achieved by evaluating criteria such as additionality, permanence, and leakage.
Our Due Diligence
We go beyond the baseline requirements, vetting each project via our own due diligence process to ensure its credibility. This includes verifying that the project is in good standing, reviewing its reputation in the press, and obtaining evidence of impact.
Benefits for Nature & People
We seek out projects that provide added social and environmental benefits that go beyond CO2 reduction and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For instance, protecting biodiversity, strengthening indigenous land rights, improving sanitation, or creating local jobs.
Why Climate Action Matters for Events
81%
of consumers feel that companies have a role to play in improving the environment.
59%
of North American event professionals are taking steps to improve their event’s environmental impact
80%
of people are willing to make some changes to their lives to reduce the effects of climate change.
Climate-Friendly Event Planning Checklist
Explore effective ways to lower your event’s carbon footprint with actionable tips on venue selection, catering, and more.
