What is additionality, and how can I be sure my donation won fund business-as-usual, and will actually counterbalance my annual emissions?
Additionality means that the project funded by your offset donation must create a new emissions reduction. Your donation cannot be used to fund an already existing program, or in other words, we can’t use it to plant trees we would have planted otherwise. In order for your donation to function as an offset of your emissions, we must plant new trees that wouldn’t be planted otherwise. The greenbelt tree planting project funded by your carbon offsetting donation is a unique program established specifically to offset emissions and is not business as usual for KONPAY. That being said, offsets are most effective and of the highest quality when they can link into an existing long-term program. KONPAY’s offsets are quality offsets that are a unique and crucial part of our environmental program in Haiti.
