The Business Case for Carbon Offsetting

Today’s blog features an article from Nature Broking's new report: The CSO Agenda for 2025 – Supercharging the VCM 2.0 by CEO Luke Baldwin which makes a clear business case for buying carbon credits.

In the article, we’ve studied the numbers behind a business’s decision to use carbon credits to offset its unavoidable emissions with interesting (and positive) results for its bottom line.

To explain this, Luke explores the fictional company Tower Ridge Insurance and the effects that purchasing high-quality carbon removal credits for their Net Zero journey could have on their balance sheet.  

3 key reasons to do it are:

• Increased profitability through lowering employee turnover, reducing the cost of debit and, as a result, increasing growth.

• Saving on the cost of carbon credits through buying now and save in the long run as the price of credits is set to rise considerably

• Changing a cost to an asset - account for carbon credits as an asset not a cost, helping make carbon credit purchases profitable

For more detail and the full article, read on below.