What are the climate benefits from the carbon offsets?
Investing in a carbon offset means that the wineries are taking full responsibility for the emissions from their business that they have not reduced. This carbon offset investment is also in the agriculture sector and focuses on eliminating methane, a greenhouse gas that is twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide and accounts for a third of the warming of the climate. Over one year, these offset projects prevent 211 metric tons of methane from being released into the atmosphere. This is the CO2 equivalent of 9,370 barrels of oil consumed, the annual emissions of 770 cars and the electricity used by 489 homes in one year.
