
Carbon offsetting? It's just a joke. To pay money to plant trees, to think you're offsetting the carbon? You're probably making matters worse. You're far better off giving to the charity Cool Earth.
Professor James Lovelock - scientist, author of Gaia
Cool Earth is a charity that protects endangered rainforest to combat global warming, protect ecosystems and provide sustainable jobs for local people.
Working with partners throughout the Amazon, Cool Earth secures rainforest, helps protect it around the clock and ensures communities benefit from keeping the forest standing. Sponsoring an acre of rainforest with Cool Earth challenges global warming. find out more »
Rainforests are made of living carbon - more than 260 tonnes are locked away in each acre. Destroying them releases more climate warming CO2 each year than the entire USA.
In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. That’s 100 acres cleared every minute to create short-term farmland for crops such as soya or palm oil, or for cattle ranching. find out more »
Unless rainforest is more valuable standing than cut down, the Amazon will be cleared in 50 years. Cool Earth enables individuals and organisations to help protect rainforest and keep carbon where it belongs. find out more »
Since 2007 Cool Earth's sponsors around the world have:

The UK's prime minister has committed to creating jobs that he hopes will reduce Britain's climate change and global warming impact.

Scientists have provided additional support to efforts to save the rainforest in eastern Tanzania.

A travel company has set up an environmentally-friendly mountain biking tour project in the Cambodian rainforest.

An Indonesian politician has been jailed for eight years for allowing a protected forest to be misused.

More than 334 cubic meters of illegally logged lumber has been stockpiled in a single district of Vietnam, it has been revealed.

Illegal logging will continue to force elephants into areas inhabited by humans in Malaysia until it is stopped, it has been claimed.

The Earth's ability to cope with increased levels of carbon dioxide has been questioned by scientists.
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Working with local partners, Cool Earth is helping to secure this corridor of land by investing in its protection system and in local community development that values forest conservation above forest destruction.
The Peruvian Amazon is experiencing rapid deforestation. As you read, illegal loggers are devastating the rainforest resources of many tribal communities.
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