Translated by Laura Steeghs
50ZERO is now ForTomorrow
50ZERO enabled you to cancel emission rights to protect the climate. But at the start of 2022, 50ZERO ceased operations and handed over to ForTomorrow. Since then, we’ve been there for you, still offering effective climate protection and the opportunity to cancel EU emission rights together.s
For a long time we worked alongside 50ZERO to promote climate protection, and we are extremely proud of this. Our collaboration has always been characterized by the highest level of commitment and trust.
Therefore, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the entire 50ZERO team. We are grateful for the important contribution they have made to climate protection. ForTomorrow will carry on their work and continue to effectively reduce and sequester CO2 emissions in Europe.
What you can do now with ForTomorrow
With us, your contribution to climate protection will have even more impact.
As with 50ZERO, you can effectively and securely cancel emission rights and reduce CO2. ForTomorrow offers the following options for this:
In addition, you can help us afforest climate-resilient mixed forests in Germany to offset CO2 long-term. You can find out how we do this here.
Would you like to cancel emission rights as well as afforest mixed forests? No problem, you can easily do so by selecting “Both” as the climate protection method on the donation form.
As a subscriber, you will receive our monthly impact report, in which we inform you about our progress.
And if you pay taxes in Germany, you will receive a donation receipt from us so that you can deduct your donation from your taxes. And if you pay taxes in Germany, you can deduct your donation from your taxes with the donation receipt you’ll receive from us. If you have any questions or would like to give feedback, please feel free to contact us at any time using our contact form.
Some background
Since the beginning of 2022, ForTomorrow has been managing the 50ZERO website and all its day-to-day operations. All emission rights that were decommissioned by 50ZERO have now been transferred to our Union Registry account. Last year, we shut down the 50ZERO website so that our small team can focus on the important climate protection work at ForTomorrow.
Why transfer and not delete?
Since past economic crises have led to a surplus of emission rights, the EU has used a process known as ‘backloading’ to withhold a large quantity of emission rights instead of auctioning them. They do this to keep the market stable. In addition, further emission rights are withheld each year if there is a surplus on the market.
These emission rights are transferred to the so-called market stability reserve and stored there. In 2023, 2.5 billion emission rights were permanently deleted from the reserve. In 2024, a further 381 million emission rights were deleted. How many emission rights are deleted depends on how many unused rights are in circulation. The more unused emission rights there are, the more emission rights are transferred to the reserve and subsequently deleted.
This is why we are not deleting the emission rights straight away. To the EU, it appears as if our emission rights are still in circulation, so they count the amount as available. We keep them until the EU no longer deletes emission rights. Only then do we delete the ones we hold. This allows us to achieve the greatest possible effect in terms of CO2 reduction.
Effective and secure CO2 offsetting
PHINEO Seal of Impact 2023 for ForTomorrow
ForTomorrow stands for transparent and effective CO2 offsetting. For our efforts, we were awarded the independent PHINEO Seal of Impact (in German) in 2023. Furthermore, we disclose information about ForTomorrow in accordance with the Transparent Civil Society Initiative (in German). We are delighted that you want to continue supporting climate protection in Europe with us at your side.
Our climate needs us – with ForTomorrow, you are part of a movement that really makes a difference.
Join us in driving climate protection in Europe forward!