Compensating for residual emissions

Climate compensation or carbon offsetting is the practice of contributing financially to projects that avoid greenhouse gas emissions or directly remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Importantly, these projects are executed outside of a company’s own operations and value chain. Copenhagen Airports invests solely in projects that directly remove carbon dioxide (CO₂)  from the atmosphere.  

In 2024, we procured CO₂ removal credits from Verra certified agroforestry projects in India and Nepal amounting to 23,000 tonnes of CO₂. Due to delays in the issuance of these carbon removal credits, CPH has procured alternative removal credits from a Plan Vivo certified reforestation project in Honduras.  

In 2025, we procured 7,300 CO₂ removal credits from agroforestry (6,738 tonnes), industrial biochar (533 tonnes) and direct air capture (29 tonnes).  Our 2025 portfolio reflects our ambition to diversify into CO₂ removal technologies that offer more permanent and certain impacts on the climate as we reduce our own emissions.

Our latest retirement of carbon removal credits

On March 11, 2026, we retired a total of 2,911 carbon removal credits to compensate for our 2025 emissions from scope 1 (2,406 tCO₂e), scope 2 (335 tCO₂e) and business travel (169 tCO₂e).

Of the 2,911 carbon removal credits, 1,861 are from the reforestation project, Paskaia La Mosquitia, 670 are from the reforestation project CommuniTree, and 380 are from the industrial biochar project Exomad Green. Both reforestation projects are verfied by Plan Vivo, and the industrial biochar project is verified by Puro Earth. You can read more about these carbon removal credits via the links below.

More information concerning our latest retirement of carbon removal credits can be found via our partner Klimate’s public registry.