The conservation of our environment has doubtlessly become a major concern for everyone today. The industrial nations are currently responsible for the majority of the CO₂ emissions worldwide, but also the emerging markets of China and India are in growing need of energy. This carries the threat of doubling our existing emissions over the next 25 years. In order to avoid an even greater strain on our climate, the time to act is now.

While avoiding CO₂ entirely is a desirable, long-term goal, it would have devastating consequences for our global economy today. As an immediate measure, we focus on reducing our emissions and compensate for unavoidable CO₂ emissions. The so-called "carbon credit" aims to mitigate the growth concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Our climate reacts to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions and not to where those emissions come from. The idea is to "cap" greenhouse gases where they cannot be avoided yet by applying climate protection measures elsewhere, to neutralize the outcome.

For example, an investor receives a climate certificate for launching climate protection projects in an emerging country. A company then buys this certificate, takes it therefore "off the market" and compensates their CO₂ emissions accordingly. Following the Kyoto protocol, these measures may only be applied when CO₂ emissions cannot be avoided.

The carbon credit is a step-by-step approach to reduce our emissions and approach carbon neutrality.