Impact beyond offsets
Employees and customers increasingly care about climate change. But too often, carbon offset projects fail to fulfill their promises for positive impact.
Even the best offsets face fundamental limits. Offsets cannot enforce environmental law, defend marine life or produce data on deforestation. They cannot deliver hard-to-quantify or systemic climate solutions.
Charitable giving, on the other hand, delivers fast and identifiable results. But less than 2% of global philanthropy goes to climate mitigation efforts.
Climate philanthropy made easy
The Global Returns Project (GRP) is a UK charity selecting and assessing the highest impact climate charities.
Using a proprietary methodology, our experts have assembled a diverse portfolio of best-in-class climate charities to which corporate teams can donate. We re-assess every six-months and replace charities if we identify organisations performing even more strongly.
Donors to GRP choose all or a selection of our recommended charities to support. We direct 100% of donations to your selected charities, with no deductions. After that, donors have access to exclusive impact reports, every six months.
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Beyond carbon offsets
Even the best carbon offsets face fundamental limitations. Carbon offsets cannot enforce environmental law, defend marine life or produce data on deforestation. They cannot deliver hard-to-quantify or systemic climate solutions. They miss some of the most important activities that directly regenerate our planet.
Companies can choose to donate to the Global Returns Portfolio Portfolio as a complement to an annual purchase of carbon offsets, or as an alternative.
In your annual accounting of emissions, you can use an objective price as set by the regulated carbon credit market as a guide for determining an annual contribution to the Global Returns Portfolio.
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Underpinning our approach is our principle that we would rather be part of a fundamental solution to the climate crisis than just offset our ongoing activity […] We are interested in constructing an authentic, tailored and innovative solution to the problem rather than just following the herd or ticking a box.
Anonymous UK Fund Manager
The Global Returns Portfolio allows business to support a selection of varied projects with proven results. The six-monthly impact reports have been a valuable summary for our supporters of the Portfolio.
Tom Ansell
Head of Product, Zellar
Alexa Capital donates to the Global Returns Portfolio as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) action.
The UK architecture firm Allies and Morrison contributes to the Global Returns Portfolio as a complement to their purchase of carbon offsets.
A UK investment fund manager contributes annually to the Global Returns Portfolio as an alternative to purchasing carbon offsets.
Zellar is a sustainability platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Zellar offers the Global Returns Portfolio as a complement or alternative to carbon offsetting.
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