What is the Offset Network?
The Offset Network is a collaboration of higher education institutions to catalyze and support unique offset projects that provide educational and research opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.
It exists to reduce barriers to entry for higher education institutions to implement offset projects. In support of this mission, the Offset Network provides the following resources:
Offset Project Type Focus Initiatives: The Offset Network facilitates collaboration within the higher education sector to vet and improve offset protocols, design projects, and develop peer review processes for carbon offsets focused on a specific carbon offset project type. Our current project type focus is Improved Forest Management (IFM).
Case Studies: The website includes case studies and examples of carbon offset projects developed by colleges and universities with contact information for higher-ed institutional project developers.
Guidance Documents: The website also provides protocols that schools can follow to develop their own carbon offset projects, and guidance documents for how best to do so.
Peer Connections: The Offset Network facilitates communication among schools, and serves as a platform to speak with other institutions about offset project ideas or simply brainstorm ways to use carbon offsets to meet climate goals.
Peer Verification: Institutions of higher education seeking to implement Improved Forest Management (IFM) offset projects to meet emissions reduction targets can submit program documents for review and feedback, and ultimately receive verification through the Offset Network’s Peer Verification Program.
The Offset Network is hosted and facilitated by Second Nature. Email mleigh@secondnature.org to learn more or get involved.