ZEERO has a shared responsibility, shared success model. ‘Share Points’ are issued with each €3 climate contribution, allowing for shared ownership and voting rights for projects, turning every trip into an investment into your own and our industry’s future while contributing to and accelerating global decarbonization.

Once you achieve 100,000 share points, you can choose to convert them into actual shares of the energy projects you have supported, or you can choose to donate them to a foundation – or you can leave them as share points, which will continue to hold voting rights.

By having a model with saleable fuels, we can reinvest revenues to scale up the development of further plants to turn more waste into low carbon fuels.

ZEERO’s founding team has identified a renewable energy technology called Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL). This innovation tackles both waste and emissions – converting food waste, agricultural waste and wastewater (sewage) into biocrude oils that are 81% lower in emissions than fossil fuels and can be refined into SAF (sustainable aviation fuel), marine diesel and petroleum.  It is also possible to add a module to the small HTL units (the size of two shipping containers) to convert the biocrude into a useable diesel to power generators, thus bringing energy independence to communities.

The ZEERO founders have succeeded in getting the right to licence this patented technology from the United States Department of Energy and the United States National Laboratory, and there is currently one prototype unit in operation.  It is the intention to scale up the manufacture of these units.

Keeping things simple is of utmost importance, however taking a broad, holistic approach is also important.  ZEERO therefore invests into renewable energy technology but will always invest into high integrity nature projects too, whether that be land or ocean-based projects, such as the restoration or conservation of forests, mangroves or coral reefs.

ZEERO’s HTL biofuels will be financed through a blended funding model, drawing from a mixture of sources; municipalities, local partners, climate contributions from the tourism sector and fuel offtake agreements with airlines, cruise and coach tour operators, helping to drive a long-term steady stream of funding towards the HTL projects, creating a self-reinforcing circular bioeconomy.  This Public-Private-Philanthropic partnership (PPP) model fosters direct collaboration and benefit-sharing, it’s a way to mobilize money, reduce risk and align diverse interests towards shared goals.

ZEERO is currently in discussions with twelve countries on installing different size plants on cities in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Far East as well as smaller towns and islands – in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and also French Polynesia. The task is huge, but doable if we have all hands-on deck!

The fuels produced through ZEERO’s investments will be sold.  Partners or investors wishing to either purchase the physical fuels or work with our ‘Book & Claim’ system will have priority over external requests where possible.  The ‘Book & Claim’ system is a type of ‘offset’ mechanism but for transition sustainable fuels where the physical delivery of fuels is not easy, possible or inefficient.  A chain of custody model, registry and public ledger using blockchain technology is provided which will enable partners to claim the biofuels and the emission reductions, no matter where their operations are located.

Each ZEERO partner will have access to a dashboard and a projects page that will show the projects that they have invested into and how many contributions have been made, along with the estimated carbon reduction achieved.

On a basic carbon reduction cost comparison, each €1 invested will reduce 10kgs of CO2e – compare this to a flight from London to New York by a major UK airline, this works out at 1/3^rd of the cost of SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) added to that flight booking, however this would be a one off purchase, but when investing into ZEERO, those funds create fuel that is sold, with most of the revenue being snowballed into creating more such projects – this is why ownership is important.

Want to know about your company’s emissions?  ZEERO also offers free award-winning tools to measure, report and manage carbon emissions – whether this be for corporate travel, premises, booking tools or even to calculate the carbon of a whole tour, from flights to hot air balloon rides! The tour calculator will be launched end of Q4 2025. Our emission calculation methodologies are based on the international framework and standards: DEFRA-Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, GHG Protocol, HCMI-Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative, Greenview, Google TIM, Cirium​​.