Carbon Offsets for Events
Meetings and events can come with a hefty environmental footprint. Carbon offsets offer a way to take action on those emissions today while supporting broader climate solutions. Whether you’re hosting a trade show, company party, or concert, our solutions make it simple to incorporate carbon offsetting into your next event. Paired with efforts to reduce emissions through event design and operations, offsets can help you move toward lower-impact events over time.
Ways to Offset Your Event’s Emissions
Choose the approach that fits your event, from offsetting 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 emissions for your next event. Determine how much to offset and identify opportunities to reduce future events.
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 offset their impact.
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.
Meet the Demand for Climate-Friendly 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.
