Jatropha oil and biodiesel create an offset value, against the use of fossil fuels, which will result in the generation of additional carbon credit revenues. For example, it is known that the CO2 emitted from each litre of petroleum diesel is 2.7 kg; therefore, the production of approximately 30,000 tonnes of Jatropha biodiesel will offset close to 81,000 tonnes of CO2.

Biodiesel reduces life cycle carbon emissions by 60 to 80 percent, depending on the source, making it the best carbon reduction tool of any liquid fuel commercially available. It has the highest energy balance of any fuel, returning 4.5 units of energy for every unit of fossil energy needed to produce it.