Business benefits
Benefits to your organisation:
By offsetting your business's carbon footprint you are making a positive, tangible statement to your employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders. Like you, they are all affected by climate change and will be more attracted, and loyal to, businesses which are committed to caring for the environment.
Green companies tend to be better managed, more efficient and more profitable than their rivals. Many of the most successful ones now recognise the clear business benefits of addressing environmental issues.
So what is Carbon Offsetting?
Everyday actions like driving a car, heating your home and office, transporting goods and even using your computer use energy and produce greenhouse gas emissions (such as carbon dioxide) which contribute to climate change.
You can compensate for your unavoidable emissions by buying carbon credits from an internationally verified project that makes an equivalent greenhouse gas saving. This is called ‘carbon offsetting’.
Is this a ‘cure’ for climate change?
Offsetting your carbon footprint will not reverse the effects already caused by your carbon dioxide emissions. The harm to the environment caused by these emissions cannot be undone. However, by saving an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide elsewhere, you can help to minimise the total global emissions.
How do offsetting schemes work?
First you need to calculate the emissions you have produced. Use our carbon calculators to do this. Even though it is a gas, we measure the carbon dioxide you produce in tons. Here’s a way of understanding what a tonne of C02 would look like:
* 1 gram of CO2 = 556 ml (a bit less than the volume of a bottle of water)
* 1 tonne CO2 = 556,000 litres or 556 m3 (about the volume of a 3 bedroom house)
Once you know what your carbon footprint is, you can buy the equivalent amount in ‘carbon credits’ from our internationally verified emission reduction projects that have made a greenhouse gas saving. These projects may be in another part of the world to where you created the emissions, however they will still have the same positive effect on the environment.
What do you get in return?
We will send you green certificates and window displays for your business, and green windscreen “permits” for your carbon offset cars. We will also provide you with our carbon neutral logo that you can use on your letterhead to demonstrate to your customers, suppliers and competitors that you have taken the initiative and are doing your bit for the environment.
Where does the money go?
We are committed to assisting you in every step of the way in achieving your low carbon goals. Your investment is used to purchase high quality carbon credits. We promise that we will deliver the carbon dioxide reductions that you have bought. These reductions will:
* Be independently verified by a Designated Operational Entity
* Meet internationally recognised Carbon Offset standards
* Be registered, delivered and cancelled on your behalf with an Independent Carbon Credits Registry.
For more information about greenhouse gas emissions and business carbon offsetting please visit http://www.carbonadvicegroup.com/uk/business_solutions.php
