Batan

What is Batan?
Batan is a digital carbon offset and a collective effort to address climate change. By using social media, the power of the crowd, and secure digital transaction technology, Batan turbo-charges existing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The batan offset is composed of a basket of allowances and offsets from the world’s main emissions trading and carbon credit schemes. The basket composition reflects the size of each scheme and is designed to represent a global emissions reduction unit.

By purchasing and owning batans, you are supporting all of the major emissions reductions schemes around the world.

When you join Batan, you become part of a network of people who care about climate change and who are doing something about it. Individually there seems to be little we can do to have an impact on climate change, but collectively, we are powerful. As we each assume our responsibility and act, the drops in the ocean become waves which resonate around the globe.

What is the basket?
Batan is designed to be a standard global product representing the global emissions market. Individuals and companies can use a single product across all geographies. The basket uniquely includes both carbon offsets, which help fund new emissions reduction projects, and cancelled emissions allowances, which reduce emissions from existing sources. Some experts prefer offsets whereas others prefer allowances – our product includes both.

How much of an impact can we have?
We have dimensioned our technical platform to be able to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100 billion tonnes. If we are able to achieve a fraction of this, we will collectively “move the dial” on global warming.