Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty which launches today with its first project in Nicaragua, empowers individuals in developed countries to tackle both climate change and global poverty. COTAP.org transparently connects individuals’ carbon footprints with accredited forestry carbon projects in least developed countries which create meaningful and measurable economic benefits for the poorest people in the world. COTAP.org is the only U.S. 501(c)3 public charity with a dual mission that puts global poverty alleviation on an equal footing with climate change abatement.
“Accredited forestry carbon projects in least-developed countries are unparalleled in terms of their reach, their dual social and environmental benefits, their transparency, their accountability, and their long-term impacts,” said COTAP.org founder Tim Whitley. “COTAP.org was created to deliver what these projects need and deserve: early stage funding, at volume, and at a compelling per-tonne price. For individuals, supporting these projects is unsurpassable by any other donation they might make, regardless of what they believe about climate change or its causes. COTAP.org doubles the number of reasons to take action about one’s CO2 emissions.”
