Inspiring action to tackle the climate crisis together
Our collective home is in the process of being turned totally upside down which is leading to strife for almost all life on Earth. We know it’s preventable. And we know it’s not going to save itself.
Our mission & values
We formed U Offset to inspire change, for too long now we have heard much talk with no action. Our aim is to build a community that can drive change, through education, support and verified offsetting investment in global and local schemes.
Our community provides a digital platform to collaborate, to inspire others, to gather momentum, to take meaningful action in our fight against our climate change.
Inspire
Through information, education, innovation and community collaboration, we want to provide information on our climate emergency, our impacts and what we can do to reduce, and we want you, our community to get involved.
Action
Our climate emergency will not be solved without action and change. We can all play our part in reducing our impact and collectively make a difference to our communities and environment.
Impact
We will provide verified offsetting solutions facilitating investment in local and global schemes that create the greatest amount of change.
How your U Offest subscription helps the planet
Renewable Energy
Renewable energy sources make up 26% of the world’s electricity, and in 2020, the UK hit a new amazing renewable energy milestone. On Wednesday 10th June, the country celebrated two months of running purely on renewable energy for the first time ever.
This is a great step in the right direction for renewables. We invest in overseas projects to help the world reach the goal of 100% faster.
Planting Seagrass
Seagrasses occupy 0.1% of the seafloor, yet are responsible for 11% of the organic carbon buried in the ocean. Seagrass meadows, mangroves and coastal wetlands capture carbon at a 15x rate greater than that of tropical forests.
Seagrass meadows provide food and habitat for 1000’s of species such as shellfish, seahorses, manatees, and sea turtles. Over 30 times more animals live within seagrass compared to adjacent sandy habitats.
Planting Trees
It’s now common knowledge that one of the best tools to tackle the climate crisis and keep our temperatures from rising above 1.5C is to plant trees. They are also crucial to preventing ecological collapse.
Our tree planting partner will plant millions of trees around the world each month. We are currently supporting their incredible work in Madagascar.
Offsetting Emissions
At U Offset we invest your money into projects that remove more greenhouse gasses than your own carbon footprint puts in.
Each month we support a range of carbon reduction projects such as investing in renewable energy, that are certified at the very highest level by Gold Standard.
Projects we invest in
Here are the schemes we are currently or have previously invested in. They are all verified by Gold Standard, and contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Transparency
When we say we put your money to great use, it’s important you see that it is. You can see the paper trail of the impact we make on this platform.
Our partners
Eden aims to reduce extreme poverty and restore healthy forests by employing local people to plant millions of trees every year. Learn more about the work being done and how you can help.
Million Tree partners have planted over 1,000,000 trees with Eden and are leading the way in the restoration of land and lives.
Project Seagrass is committed to the conservation of seagrass ecosystems and ensuring that the benefits they provide communities are sustained now and for the future.
Through education, influence, research and action, we can save seagrass and revive our dying oceans!
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Gold Standard was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development.
The create value for people around the world and the planet we share.
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Why offset with U Offset?
We inspire action
Our Gold Standard certified carbon credits are considered the most rigorous climate standard by many NGOs, including WWF and the David Suzuki Foundation.
This means that every pound you spend offsetting creates more value for local communities and ecosystems and contributes in a measurable way to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Our leaders
U Offset was founded by two childhood friends and business colleagues,
originally from York, UK.
James Staniforth
Co-Founder & Sustainability Director
James is passionate about climate change, he is an IEMA Member (The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment), and also a Climate Reality Leader. Working in sustainability for over 7 years, and currently running his own sustainability consultancy, working with firms to track and reduce their carbon footprint. James is married, with two children and is a very keen sportsman.
Geoffrey Idun
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Geoff is a member of Friends of the Earth and works alongside his partner Clare within their local community to promote sustainability, and green projects. As the Creative Director of design agency Luxia, which provides branding, marketing & sustainability consulting services to premium and luxury brands, Geoff's mission is to influence change to companies in one of the slowest sectors to embrace sustainability.
Justin Horsman
Commercial Director
Justin is on a mission to inspire a change to a sustainable future. Both within the FMGC & luxury drinks industries, where he has over 21 years of experience in commercial sales and marketing, but also within the wider UK business community as a whole. Based in Yorkshire, and working in Manchester, Justin is married with two daughters, for whom he is looking leave a planet that’s has a greener future than it’s currently looking.
Louise Mortleman
Chief Content Officer
Louise is an expert on all things sustainable, and has been managing and collaborating on user-centred language projects for 10 years, across wide-ranging fields and professions, both freelance and in teams. She excels on projects including writing, editing and consulting, as well as translation (Spanish-English), and an agile, data driven approach guides all my work. Louise, also originally from York, now resides in Barcelona.
Join us
We’re amassing a collective of passionate and talented humans in all corners of the world to build a platform for great climate action. If you feel you can help in any way in terms of putting this in-front of a new audience, feedback, working with businesses, or funding – then we’d love to hear from you!
Get in touch
General enquiries:
hello@uoffset.org
Business & partnerships:
james@uoffset.org
Press & technical:
geoff@uoffset.org