Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org)

Individuals and climate-responsible businesses from all over the United States - as well as from Hong Kong, Cape Town, Sydney, and Paris – are transforming their unavoidable carbon emissions into supplemental income for rural farmers in Nicaragua, Uganda, Malawi, and India through COTAP. COTAP is a registered IRS 501(c)3 public charity, and all of its projects are registered under the voluntary Plan Vivo standard, which is dedicated to generating not only verified emissions reductions but also transparent and accountable income streams for smallholder farmers who live in areas where earnings are less than $2/day. COTAP’s initial project portfolio is poised to generate over $1 million in payments for these communities, an amount we seek to scale to $30M annually.