What is carbon offsetting?

Carbon Offset options

We all need to reduce the amount of CO2 we create as part of doing business. This could mean choosing to use greener vehicles, driving more fuel efficiently, improving premises insulation and minimising business air travel. After we have reduced as much as we can, offsetting our remaining CO2 emissions allows us to do even more. Use our new Carbon Offset service to find out what your carbon footprint is for your business - and how much it will cost to offset.


Do as much as you can to reduce your CO2 emissions and then offset with RBS.

Carbon offsetting explained

The idea is simple - reduce the impact that your business' carbon emissions have on the world by supporting projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere, such as eco-friendly power generation. You can offset whatever you decide... your vehicles, your air travel or even the way your business operates.

Don't worry - there's no need to look around the world searching for worthy projects, or be concerned about the many different types. RBS has researched a variety of carbon offset projects on your behalf and identified a number of projects that could reduce or remove carbon emissions.

Use our new Carbon Offset service to make it easy, to achieve great value and to combine all the projects we believe to be the best together under one portfolio.

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A 'carbon footprint' is the amount of greenhouse gas produced by a business, normally calculated over a year.

Every business has a carbon footprint. This is because heating and lighting your premises and travelling to business meetings burn fossil fuels - and this generates CO2. Almost everything we use or do produces CO2. There's no escaping this fact.

Measuring carbon footprints

Carbon footprints are measured in tonnes of CO2. By measuring the carbon footprint of your own business, you can understand the impact that your normal activities have on global warming.

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We have combined projects from around the world and of different types to create a reputable and trustworthy Carbon Offset Service. Your money will be put to good use in a wide variety of green initiatives. Moreover this will be done to the high standards you would expect from RBS.

Here are some of the different types of carbon offset:

  • Planting trees - this can include restoring natural forests or avoiding planned deforestation. As well as absorbing CO2, trees can stop the soil from eroding away, and give wildlife a place to live.
  • Renewable energy - think of wind turbines, solar energy, and hydroelectric power. These are effective as they produce little or no hazardous emissions or pollutants.
  • Energy efficiency - this will reduce the demand for electricity and therefore cut the amount of emissions released into the environment. The idea here is to replace or renew older inefficient power plants, machinery and devices with newer, more efficient ones.
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