How much will the compensation cost me?

The offset amount depends on the level of your emissions.

On an area of 128m2, 13 tons of CO2 are bound in the nature reserve of Wilderness International in Western Canada. We protect 128m2 with 100€. This results in an amount of 7.80€ per ton of CO2.

In our protected areas in Peru, it is 8.3 tons of CO2. 128m2 we protect with 96€. This results in an amount of 16.66€ per ton of CO2.

This amount includes:

• direct refinancing of land purchases and thus direct and permanent protection of a wilderness area together with our sister foundations in Peru and Canada
• annual property tax of the nature reserve in the project land
• Research on biodiversity and carbon fluxes together with local partnersEnvironmental education.

Thus, compensation with Wilderness International is comparatively very favorable. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the wilderness areas, in contrast to other compensation projects, already exist and do not require any maintenance, on the other hand, it is due to the fact that we keep our own administrative costs to a minimum. Furthermore, we are one of the few providers who, as a project foundation, combine the full responsibility for the data basis and the compensation projects up to the research activities and therefore have no transmission costs. Wilderness International does not act in any way as a middleman or economically motivated. Our time horizon is based on the age of the ecosystems with their more than 1,000 year old trees.