Our carbon offset project portfolio

By taking action to offset your carbon footprint, you are purchasing carbon credits from bp Target Neutral that we retire on your behalf. The credits are sourced from a range of different carbon reduction projects around the world

We go to great lengths to ensure that the projects from which we purchase carbon credits meet the very highest international standards so that we know the reductions in carbon emissions are real, unique, permanent and most importantly would not have happened without the project being developed (visit How we choose our projects).

We also assess the projects by their contribution to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This provides an international blueprint that recognizes that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

Our portfolio of current projects comprises seven carbon reducing initiatives across China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Zambia.

And behind each project is a remarkable story of human progress enabled by your efforts to tackle carbon.

Reducing carbon, growing income – biogas, Indonesia

The United Nations has committed to double smallholder productivity and incomes by 2030, as part of efforts to end hunger and achieve food security.

Reducing carbon, tackling poverty – biogas, China

The project supports the installation of robust, locally appropriate biogas plants

Woman emptying a basket of cow dung into a biodigester

Reducing carbon, empowering women – biogas, India

The Biogas CDM Project activity aims to install 18,000 biogas plants (digesters) of 2m3 capacity each for single households

A young family gather round a newly installed ONIL cookstove from the ONIL cookstoves project, Mexico

Reducing carbon, improving health – cookstoves, Mexico

Each project includes approximately 13,800 improved cook stoves which translates into a reduction of 40,000 tCO2e per year

Lower Zambezi REDD+ Project is helping farmers with improved conservation farming practices

Reducing carbon, strengthening communities – forest management, Zambia

The project aims to protect the Rufunsa Conservancy, a 38,781 hectare area

Reducing carbon, enhancing education – Hydropower, China

According to the United Nations, 262 million children and youth around the world were out of school in 2017

More wind, less pollutants – Wind energy, China

By supporting the Zhaoyuan Zhangxing Wind Project, bp Target Neutral is investing in a project that reduces carbon in the atmosphere and at the same time improves local air quality