Wipe Out Your Carbon Footprint - For One Year

Make your next trip #OceanPositive and wipe out your carbon footprint from flying. 

Take this #OceanPositive action and we'll plant mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya, and protect a REDD+, VERRA and CCBA certified, "ridge to reef" watershed project in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia or along the Pacific coast of Colombia.

For each ton of CO2 created by your flight, your purchase:

• Sequester one ton of CO2 with carbon credits from the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia.
• Plant three mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya which has the potential to sequester an additional 1.2 metric tons of CO2
• Creates tree planting and management jobs for the villages of the Mida Creek region, and forest protection and ecotourism jobs for people living in the Southern Cardamom forest.
• Protects biodiversity and threatened species such as dugongs (sea cows) and Irrawaddy dolphins in the Southern Cardamom Watershed, and protects critical habitat and nesting areas for sea turtles, Humpback Whales, and Indo-pacific Bottlenose Dolphin.

How much climate impact did your flight create?:

• Short-haul flight (< 3 hours = 1 ton CO2)
• Medium-haul flight (< 6 hours = 2 tons CO2)
• Long-haul trips flight (< 12 hours = 4 tons CO2)
• Ultra long-haul flight (18+ hours = 6 tons CO2)

Flight times listed as 1-way travel time.  CO2 footprint counted as a round-trip.

Uses latest CO2 emission factors according to DEFRA-2018, and a radiative forcing factor of 2.0 according to Jungbluth & Meili 2018. "What the heck is radiative forcing?"

Tax Deductible: SeaTrees is a program of 501c3 non-profit Sustainable Surf - meaning that Planting and Restoring SeaTrees is tax-deductible in the USA. Keep your donation receipt.

Make your driving #OceanPositive by wiping out the climate impact of your mileage - better yet, skip the car and walk or ride a bike whenever you can!

Take this #OceanPositive action and we'll plant mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya, and protect a REDD+, VERRA and CCBA certified, "ridge to reef" watershed project in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia or along the Pacific coast of Colombia.

By wiping out your driving impact, you:

• Sequester CO2 with carbon credits from the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia.
• Plant three mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya for every tonne wiped out. Every three trees planted has the potential to sequester an additional 1.2 metric tons of CO2
• Create tree planting and management jobs for the villages of the Mida Creek region, and forest protection and ecotourism jobs for people living in the Southern Cardamom forest.
• Protect biodiversity and threatened species such as dugongs (sea cows) and Irrawaddy dolphins in the Southern Cardamom Watershed, and protects critical habitat and nesting areas for sea turtles, Humpback Whales, and Indo-pacific Bottlenose Dolphin.

What's the carbon footprint of your driving?:

• Average Surfer (USA): In a 2011 survey conducted by Surf First and the Surfrider Foundation, the median distance traveled by surfers to go surfing was 10 miles one way, and the median number of times they surfed per year was 97 = 1,940 miles per year to surf.
• Average American (USA): The average American drives approximately 15,000 miles per year according to the U.S Department of Transportation.

Fuel economy is based on the average American car - sourced from the USA EPA. 

Tax Deductible: SeaTrees is a program of 501c3 non-profit Sustainable Surf - meaning that Planting and Restoring SeaTrees is tax-deductible in the USA. Keep your donation receipt.

Gift someone an #oceanpositive year by wiping out their carbon footprint! The perfect gift for the ocean lover in your life. 

To do this, we'll plant mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya, and protect a REDD+, VERRA and CCBA certified, "ridge to reef" watershed project in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia -  in order to wipe out the carbon footprint of your giftee.

For the USA, the estimated carbon footprint is based on direct energy use (electricity, natural gas), transportation (auto, air, public) and the embodied emissions from goods and services purchased throughout the year. 

More info on the USA footprint calculations can be found here.

For other countries, the estimated carbon footprint is based on the annual per-capita footprint of each country (compiled by the International Energy Agency). 

Instead of using an overly complex carbon calculator, we use the average footprint of your country/region as the best representation of someone's climate impact. This method is a more realistic estimate because it also includes indirect energy consumption of infrastructure and services.

If you feel that footprint of the person you are buying this gift for is significantly higher than average, then please use a reputable carbon calculator, such as this one from the United Nations, and then buy SeaTrees Tokens to wipe out the specific number of tons that you require.

Note: If your recipient doesn't receive a gift email, please have them check their "promotions" section.

Tax Deductible: SeaTrees is a program of 501c3 non-profit Sustainable Surf - meaning that Planting and Restoring SeaTrees is tax-deductible in the USA. Keep your donation receipt.

*If you are a Climate Neutral Brand, make sure to check out our SeaTrees Carbon Credits for Climate Neutral Brands*

Whether it’s your personal footprint or the carbon emissions from your entire company, we believe that simply being carbon neutral isn’t enough to help us solve climate change. In order to reverse climate change, we need to sequester the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted for decades in parallel with reducing our current CO2 emissions.

Our solution: The SeaTrees Token, which restores multiple ecosystems to sequester more CO2 than you emit. The result: a positive impact on the ocean and the life it supports. For every ton of carbon dioxide you’re looking to wipeout or balance, we:

1. Sequester one ton of CO2 with carbon credits from the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia.
2. Plant three mangrove trees in Mida Creek, Kenya which has the potential to sequester an additional ton of CO2.
   

So if your carbon footprint is 10 tons of CO2, 10 SeaTrees Tokens will make you “carbon neutral” with 10 certified carbon credits from one of the best REDD+ projects we’ve ever seen. Then you become “ocean positive” by the additional support of restoring mangrove forests.

Add one SeaTrees Token to your cart for each ton of CO2 to be "wiped out".

REDD+ = Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation

VERRA = Verified Carbon Standard Program

CCBA = The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance

Welcome Climate Neutral Brands members! 

SeaTrees mission is to reverse climate change through restoring coastal blue carbon ecosystems globally. To achieve this, we need to sequester the carbon dioxide we’ve previously emitted for decades in parallel with reducing our current CO2 emissions.

Our solution: SeaTrees Carbon Credits, which restores multiple ecosystems and blends Verra certified carbon credits with early-stage ocean restoration projects. The end result is removing more CO2 than you emit, with a positive impact on the ocean and the life it supports.

Each SeaTrees Carbon Credit purchased achieves the following:

1. Sequesters one ton of CO2 with Verra certified carbon offsets from the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia.
2. Plants three mangrove trees in Marereni, Kenya which have the potential to sequester an additional ton of CO2 in a qualitative sense.  
   

Add one SeaTrees Carbon Credit to your cart for each ton of CO2 to be "wiped out".

If your carbon footprint is 10 tons of CO2, 10 SeaTrees Credits will make you “climate neutral” with 10 tons of certified carbon offsets from a coastal REDD+ project that we've personally picked for quality and multiple sustainable development benefits. These credits meet the requirements of Climate Neutral Network. Learn more about this project in the video below. 

Then, the mangrove trees planted will sequester additional CO2 in an early-stage blue carbon project. Many SeaTrees projects are either too small or too early-stage to produce a formally certified carbon credit.  However these projects also need support, and our blended model enables this support while also meeting core Climate Neutral requirements.

All purchases of Verra carbon offsets will be retired on behalf of the buyer. 

SeaTrees will provide media content and stories for your purchase of SeaTrees Carbon Credits. We take pride in our content, which will help you tell your climate positive story to customers, employees, media and other stakeholders.  

As an added bonus, achieving Climate Neutral certification will also achieve Ocean Positive status.  

If you have any questions, please contact our Partnerships Director, Haley Haggerstone:  haley@sustainablesurf.org.  

Note: SeaTrees also uses the term "SeaTrees Token" for the blended offset product described above.  This is not a tokenized carbon credit on blockchain, but rather a special term we use to describe a blended offset product.