Cicero Joins the Stripe Climate Effort for Carbon Removal
As a certified B Corp, we’ve long operated with a mission to make positive civic, social, and environmental impact. This has manifested in many of the choices we’ve made as an organization, such as our Techsoup donation program, and our commitment to continue offering discounted services to nonprofits, governments, and educational institutions. Using the power of business for good is important to us, so when we heard about the new Stripe Climate effort, we were interested in contributing.
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure. Cicero has been using Stripe as our payment processor for many years to enable customers to easily and securely purchase our products.
Last year, Stripe made a commitment to contribute to carbon removal efforts. Most organizations contribute to such efforts by purchasing carbon offsets, typically via a certificate which represents a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide. However, in Stripe’s case, they are going farther by actively funding new carbon removal technologies. It was for this reason that we were even more excited to get involved, especially because it has been projected that existing carbon removal solutions may not be enough to scale to the size of the problem.
The Stripe Climate program allows us to automatically contribute a percentage of our revenue to these frontier carbon removal technologies. Beginning on January 1st of this year, any time a customer makes an API or District Match purchase through our site, 2% of our revenue on that payment will go directly to this effort.
We know we only have one planet, and we care deeply about it. We’ve been thrilled to support climate focused organizations in the past, such as Climate Solutions, Washington Environmental Council, Citizens’ Climate, and others. Our participation in Stripe Climate is one way that we can continue to use our business to make a positive impact.
To learn more about how we can help your climate efforts, reach out.
Originally published at https://www.azavea.com on March 2, 2021.
