Carbon Jacked has been launched by alumnus Jacques Sheehan

Alumnus launches business to help people offset their carbon footprint

Alumnus Jacques Sheehan (Politics, Philosophy and Law, 2013) and his business partner Jack Curtis, have set up a new website designed to make it easier for individuals and businesses to combat climate change.

Carbon Jacked allows people to offset their carbon footprint with a monthly payment to a climate project.

Jacques said: “The service allows you to understand your carbon footprint and then support a UN approved project that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. Carbon offsetting is a practical and realistic way to start combating climate change, but too many of the companies in this space simply don’t appeal to most people. We want to change that.

“As lockdown measures start to lift, we’re encouraging society to restart sustainably. History shows that major economic crises are always accompanied by a fall in CO₂ emissions. However, history also shows that on every occasion, carbon emissions went on to grow at an alarming rate as the economy recovered. This time it needs to be different.

“Too often the debate about climate change swings wildly between the stop-everything preachers and do-nothing deniers. We started Carbon Jacked to give individuals and businesses a meaningful and realistic way to make a difference.”

Date: 5 June 2020