Thinking of climate change as an abstract concept is a luxury we can no longer afford.

While it affects communities around the globe, from searing droughts in Africa to rising sea levels, the team at Patch has felt it first hand for the past month, as record setting fires have shrouded California in a thick layer of smoke and orange skies. With rolling blackouts, unprecedented lightning strikes and heat waves barely a few weeks into fire season, the West Coast has repeatedly proven vulnerable to climate change.

Why we built Patch

Worldwide, consumers are reacting to the tangible consequences of climate change by weighing their impact and increasingly choosing businesses that reflect their values. Trail-blazing companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Shopify have responded with significant carbon neutral and zero climate impact promises. However, many companies lack the resources required to actively manage their carbon footprint. Launching carbon neutrality programs is time consuming and capital intensive.

Over the last 20 years, the majority of businesses have invested in systems of record to quantify their work, from ERPs to e-commerce platforms. These systems capture the transaction data necessary to quantify the carbon impact of a business. We want to capitalize on existing infrastructure to allow for frictionless integration and enable climate-positivity at scale.

We built Patch to help companies of all sizes access negative emissions by backing the right carbon removal projects. We believe that seamless automation at the transaction level is needed to address the majority of future emissions through a transparent, efficient, and trust-worthy process.

How Patch works

Patch is a platform for negative emissions. It integrates with businesses to calculate their carbon footprint and systematically compensates by funding verified carbon removal projects.

Whether 1 kilogram or 1000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide, Patch helps automate sustainability goals with just a few lines of code. Our API gives developers the opportunity to leverage data already captured to neutralize their carbon impact via a diverse selection of carbon sequestration projects. As a result, businesses can ship climate positive products, whether at an additional opt-in cost to the customer or built-in to their pricing strategy.

We’re working with some of the world’s most innovative e-commerce marketplaces, banks and payment companies to bring climate positivity to their customers.

Where Patch fits in

We believe it should be easier to do the right thing. The majority of climate models indicate that we need to reduce our emissions globally, while also removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. We take care of a company’s carbon removal goals, while they focus their efforts on reducing emissions, a more proprietary task that requires intimate operational knowledge. Patch complements this behavioral shift and gives us a real chance to mitigate climate change.

Join us!

We’re now accepting forward-thinking beta users onto our platform to help us make a difference. Head over to www.usepatch.com to learn more and get early access.

Build something climate positive, our future depends on it.