Purchase Trees of Hope Carbon Offsets

The donation rate for the Trees of Hope project is USD $9.90 per tonne. You may offset any amount as little as 1 tonne and you can calculate your actual emissions below. To support multiple projects, please see the Offsetting Options menu above.

Calculate Your Annual CO2 Emissions Below


Record your inputs and results before leaving this page, as our calculator doesn’t retain results.  Our thorough calculator methodology can be found here.

Offsetting by Check


Please make your check payable to Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) and mail to:

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP)
3857 Lakeshore Avenue
Oakland, CA  94610  U.S.A.

Please include “Malawi Offset” in the memo section of your check to let us know you’d like to offset to this project. To receive an emailed donation acknowledgement letter instead of a mailed one, please be sure to include your email address.

Where Your Money Goes

All tonnes offset on this page are allocated to the Trees of Hope project. You will receive a detailed offset acknowledgement like this one. Your tonnes will be included in our public carbon credit retirements on the Markit Environmental Registry like this. You can track COTAP’s progress and download projects’ annual reports, which contain detailed accounting of payments to communities, in our Transparency section.

Learn More About COTAP


To learn more, please see the Mission, Projects, How It Works, How We’re DifferentTransparency, and Standards sections of our site and see our above menu.