Ecologically Sustainable Ecommerce
Google Travel, as well as other travel and hotel search sites, have formulated a way to compare carbon emission variations among similar routes. The impetus is on both the airline and the consumer to choose among the available options with ecological criteria being included.
- EcoCart: Provides a plugin and service that estimates each order’s carbon footprint and allows customers to make their order carbon neutral for a small fee by funding projects like reforestation and renewable energy.
- Carbon Checkout: A service that appears on a store’s checkout page, pooling customer contributions to fund certified carbon offsetting and reforestation projects.
- Carbonfund: Offers a “Carbon-free Shipping Program” for e-commerce, supporting reforestation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy projects.
- ClimatePartner: Provides carbon offset services to e-commerce companies, funding projects such as reforestation and hydropower investments.
What is “carbon offsetting?”
Carbon offsetting is a way to compensate for the carbon dioxide we spew into the atmosphere by funding projects that reduce greenhouse gases or absorb carbon from the air. At cgk.digital, this means investing in renewable energy sources, reforestation efforts, and energy-efficient technologies that help balance out the environmental impact of shipping and packaging.
Stripe Climate is the easiest way to help promising permanent carbon removal technologies launch and scale. cgk.digital has joined a growing group of ambitious businesses that are changing the course of carbon removal.
Carbon Balance Pte. Ltd. is a sustainability platform based in Singapore providing a calculator API to measure the GHG footprint of ecommerce transactions and an Integration Plugin for popular ecommerce enablers such as WooCommerce, EasyStore, Shopify with flexible options to offset footprint by contributing to trustworthy projects.