The “Do card,” a credit card offered by Swedish financial company Doconnomy, allows consumers to track the emissions related their purchases and offers options to buy offsets. The card uses the Åland Index to quantify consumers’ carbon footprint and compute offset costs using the World Bank’s carbon price. Consumers can use the data supplied to either reduce their carbon footprint through behavior change, or to buy offset credits from UN-certified projects that reduce, avoid or remove GHG emissions.

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