Future Neutral The carbon offset for a sustainable future

West 14th x Future Neutral Carbon Offset Credits Sustainable Luxury

We're excited to partner with Future Neutral to take our sustainability initiatives a step further.

Future Neutral is an easy way to help the environment by giving you, our customers, the opportunity to offset your yearly carbon emissions , and then some, by adding carbon credits to each purchase.

What does this actually mean for you?

West 14th gives our customers the option to offset their carbon footprint through their shopping! This goes beyond just the product being bought, and actually goes towards a positive carbon offset to your yearly lifestyle. Our partner, Future Neutral, has helped install a one-click carbon offset at checkout option. Their team of experts then takes care of the carbon offset. See below for 1-2-3 simple steps.

Step 1: Your Purchase

Each time you make a purchase with participating retailers, you can choose to add offset to your transaction for a small fee. For example, a $110 mini-bag would only cost $3.30 to add offset.

Step 2: Certified Offset Projects

Future Neutral uses Certified Emission Reduction units (CERs), overseen by the United Nations. The offsets issued are recorded and tracked in the Kyoto Protocol’s registry system. They also support Australian NFP Greenfleet for local offset. View Projects.

Step 3: Repeat!

Keep using Future Neutral-backed retailers and through micro payments in your everyday life we’ll soon have a huge impact on the course of our planet.

West 14th Future Neutral Carbon Offset when you shop

It might seem like a small amount at checkout, but if only 10% of Australians participated with all their shopping we’d be able to fund over $600 Million dollars worth of carbon abatement programs per year! Small change for big difference.

West 14th Future Neutral Carbon Offset

What are Carbon Offsets?

Carbon offsets actually refer to the offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions, the most common of which is carbon dioxide. As such a carbon offset is used as a shorthand term to describe activities that remove (offset) CO2e from the atmosphere. Some of the most common examples include planting trees and switching to renewable energy sources.

Why do we need them?

The ‘greenhouse gases’ are needed for life on earth, they make the planet warm enough for us to live on, if they disappeared the climate on average would be about 33°C cooler!

The issue is that human activities are adding more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in particular CO2 (carbon dioxide). This increase in concentration is correlated with increasing the global temperature - and if it gets too warm, that then becomes a bad thing... even a few degrees of warming causes huge changes that we are already seeing.

In particular extreme weather, changing climates and positive feedback loops that accelerate even more warming. We are now facing a climate change emergency and the world’s average temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees from pre-industrial levels.

Carbon offsets are therefore really important to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

If you’d like to learn more about carbon offsets head to the Future Neutral articles page. If you’d like to learn more about climate change the New York Times has a great “Crash Course”.

Projects

Future Neutral supports a number of projects as directed by their team of experts and advisory council. These include United Nations certified projects, and locally a partnership with Australian non-profit Greenfleet.

If you’d like to see up to date certificates and tracking - head to the Future Neutral Carbon Offsets page.

Natalie

Great pants. Just love it. Please do more clothing & leather combination

Always the best.

Always beautiful and luxurious.

A small but mighty bag

I bought this bag on a whim and I am so glad I did. For such a small bag it can fit a lot of things. It also packs flat so it is perfect to take travelling. The green is such a unique colour and it goes with everything plus the leather is super soft!

Kristine Taylor

I waited so long before deciding to purchase this beautiful Trench Coat and for the life of me I still don't know why. This is far from an early purchase from West14th which I have bought many items from and fallen in love with each and every piece. I finally bit the bullet and decided to buy this item, especially as I wasn't sure just how many were left in my size and didn't wish to miss out. I have a few other leather items in this colour, so I knew it would go well with these and many other shades that I owned in other clothing. The Trench Coat arrived earlier this week and like all else from West14th, it fit like a glove. Violetta and staff surely know how to style a garment to fit one's body just right. They are always available to ask questions from in regards to styling the garments, working out sizing and anything else one wishes to ask. The service is second to none. Yet again, the leather is super soft on this garment and I love the extra touches that are added such as two inside invisible buttons to secure the double-breasted design into a neat fit. The band's of leather around the cuffs that secure the sleeves into the right length have buckles, the flap on the back of the shoulder area at the rear is a nice touch that makes it look just like an orginal Burberry Trench. The belt wraps around my body almost two and a half times, yet still looks stylish and sophisticated. It can be worn several other ways as well. The only thing that is missing is the cashmere scarf to drape around the collar, although this I may splurge on from Burberry to utterly spoil myself. My intense interest in West14th, a brand that I had never even heard of at the time, was peaked by seeing a mid-blue New Yorker Jacket which I went on to purchase. I so loved this jacket, plus the many compliments I received, that I indulged in more items that I love dearly. I have never come across another brand that has leather that is remotely as soft as West14th nor designs as stunning. This is my first actual Trench Coat and I couldn't be happier with it. I already have my sights set on my next desires! Thanks yet again Violetta and West14th.