It depends on how you implement the measure. In the future, we want to determine reforestation based on the carbon emissions of products. With the help of projects like https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre or https://www.electricitymap.org/map, this would be easy to do for energy consumption. In this way, digital services can be transparently and recurrently compensated for emissions in the long term.

It is less overhead.

Sign up once, then just add a single REST call to your billing flow.

Except there is now a middleman that also wants part of the cash. The only advantage I see is that it's impossible for one of the CFO's bootlickers to kill the payment without anyone else knowing.

Edit: apparently digitalhumani doesn't cream off.

Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com

Our solution is 100% free. We are a group of IT-oriented volunteers concerned about climate change, and we pay ourselves for the costs of the solution (which is quite cheap though).

Our RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) API was built because most reforestation organizations do not have APIs. These organizations know lot about trees, climate and reforestation, less so about IT. We help them get the money they need to plant the trees (1$ per tree) by providing the API for free.

The API is used in lots of ways right now by our clients: Planting a tree when someone subscribes to a newsletter, buys something, refer a friend for a mobile app, fills a survey, charge their electric car, etc.

It is much easier for our clients to just choose a reforestation project they want to donate to and add the call to the API in their code.