Recommend Cooler

Businesses will only fight climate change

for compliance; if it improves their margins, or if it boosts employee morale. Most businesses aren’t required to act, so they don’t. Yet over 70% of consumers expect them to address their carbon footprints.

Cooler’s Mission

Cooler’s mission is to enable 1 million small- to mid-sized businesses to make climate action a profitable part of their operations, resulting in real emissions reductions, satisfied climate-conscious consumers, and state investment in renewable energy programs.

Cooler’s platform enables businesses to improve margins and boost morale by helping them take certified, measurable climate action to attract and retain climate-conscious consumers. Through the Cooler Certified program, businesses showcase their brand-building commitment using integrated marketing tools that build trust, win customers, and drive sales.

Exponential Impact

Your investment in Cooler catalyzes real emissions reductions exponentially: for every 2,000 customers, Cooler expects to:

• neutralize about 1 million metric tons of CO₂ annually
• enlist about 100,000 consumers in shared climate action, education, and advocacy
• catalyze the investment of about $20 million in environmental and energy-efficiency programs through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

What’s authentic climate action?

Cooler buys and retires traceable, high-integrity emissions permits that power plants in Northeastern states must purchase to operate in RGGI states. RGGI is a regulated cap-and-invest system that has cut emissions from those industrial polluters by over 50% since 2009. Cooler’s permit purchases reduce the number of available pollution permits, pushing plants to cut emissions faster than the prescribed cap reductions.

The icing on this climate-action cake? Proceeds from RGGI emissions permit auctions are reinvested into those states for energy efficiency, environmental justice, and conservation programs.