DriveNeutral provides members with a CO2 Neutral certification, both in decal and certificate form, so that you can certify to others that you are helping to put the brakes on climate change.



DriveNeutral™ is committed to providing drivers the opportunity to reduce the threat of climate change. The average American driver contributes 11,500 pounds (over 5 metric tons) of climate changing emissions each year. By neutralizing your vehicle’s carbon dioxide emissions through DriveNeutral, you will be supporting projects that are reducing climate-changing emissions.



The term global warming refers to the rise of global temperatures caused by increased amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As the sun’s energy enters the Earth’s atmosphere, these greenhouse gases block heat reflected from the Earth’s surface, which would normally travel back into space. The result is an increase in global temperatures. As the amount of greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere, the Earth’s surface becomes warmer.



There are many greenhouse gases and the most abundant is carbon dioxide, which accounts for approximately 85% of all greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is formed when fossil fuels, like gasoline or diesel are burned. The continued accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will result in a warmer atmosphere resulting in warmer winters, inundated coastal areas, droughts in arid areas, flooding in wet areas, lost habitat and species extinction, increased intensities of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, decreased productivity of agricultural land and more.



With the rising global use of fossil fuels comes an ever-increasing amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Though it can’t be seen, scientists observe elevated amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The effect of annual amounts of carbon dioxide emissions on total atmospheric amounts of carbon dioxide is cumulative. The earth’s natural cycles cannot process as much carbon dioxide as human activity is producing and scientists are observing coresponding increases in the average global temperature. Over the past 20 years, scientists have concluded that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide is the major contributor of rising global temperatures. In the last 15 years, the warmest 10 years of the century have been recorded. Over the past year, the Arctic ice cap is probably its smallest size in the last 100 years of record keeping. In recent years, the proportion of powerful hurricanes has doubled, from 1/6 to 1/3.



DriveNeutral™ purchases emissions credits through the Chicago Climate Exchange because of the demonstrated effectiveness of its members in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, CCX members are exceeding their emissions reduction targets. When DriveNeutral™ purchases your vehicle’s emissions credits, we are stimulating a consumer market and encouraging more entities to join emission reductions programs like the CCX.



The threat of global climate change can be reduced if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced globally and we pay our climate dues.



DriveNeutral™ gives drivers the opportunity to reduce their impact on global warming now. Every petroleum-fueled vehicle, whether it burns gasoline, diesel, biodiesel or natural gas, emits carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.



A rapidly growing number of US industrial companies have joined a voluntary, legally binding program aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions. That program, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), requires members to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a prescribed amount each year. Companies reducing more than the required amount are able to translate these excess reductions into credits, and sell them on the exchange to other participants who have not been able to meet their quota. Through selling these reduction credits companies are able to offset the costs of reductions, thus stimulating members to exceed their required reductions.