Carbon Neutral Projects
As an accredited carbon neutral company, we have worked closely with ClimatePartner to calculate our Carbon Footprint, identify ways to reduce it and offset the carbon that can’t be reduced.
The projects we have invested in not only reduce our Carbon Footprint they also help confront some of the biggest challenges facing the planet and focus on tackling the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Hydropower in Hamzali, Turkey
The Hamzali project comprises the construction and operation of a run-of-river power plant. The power plant uses water from the river Kızılırmak, and creates an annual production of about 127 GWh, which is enough energy to power 41,000 UK homes for a year. The weir guarantees a minimum flow rate of water, thus avoiding negative impacts on aquatic fauna. Through hydropower we can create energy without burning fossil fuels, making it an emission free source of power and saving an average of 46,000 tons of CO2 per year.
In addition to the above, an irrigation system was set up as part of the project, which benefits regional agriculture. 9,600 hectares of land that have not been cultivated so far can now be used for agriculture. This creates additional jobs in a region characterised by a high level of emigration due to a lack of economic development.
This project helps contribute to goals 7, 8, 9 and 13 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Woodland Creation in the United Kingdom
Forests are not only among the planet's most important carbon reservoirs. They also are home to an enormous diversity of species and are the livelihood for all people. However, global forest areas have declined sharply in recent decades due to increasing settlement, agricultural use, illegal logging and mining.
Despite being densely populated in some regions, Europe is home to many precious woodlands. This type of ecosystem has been affected by climate change: extreme weather events like heavy rain, floods, heatwaves, droughts; degraded forests are more vulnerable to damages, pests like bark beetles. This project is aimed at restoring and/or foresting rough pasture into habitat that benefits local wildlife and society, increasing the habitats' connectivity in the regions, increasing biodiversity, and boosting the status of watercourses that run through the woodland area. Woodland creation is also augmenting forest management, providing habitats extensive enough to be sustainable and creating areas to form a vast network of restored habitats for future generations. For each ton of CO2 offset, 3 trees are planted in the UK.
This project helps contribute to goals 3, 6, 11, 13 and 15 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Stopping plastic waste from entering the oceans
The ocean stores a quarter of the CO2 from the atmosphere and even 93 percent of the heat caused by the greenhouse effect - making it a major brake on climate change, but with over 8 million tons of plastic waste end up in the sea every year the balance of this ecosystem is in danger.
This project aims to stop plastic entering the ocean whilst also improving the lives of some of those who are most affected. In Haiti, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines, people collect plastic waste. At local collection points, they can exchange it for money, food, drinking water or even school fees. The project recycles the plastic and turns into so-called Social Plastic, which serves as raw material for new products such as packaging.
This project helps contribute to goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Wind Energy, Northeast Brazil
This project comprises the implantation and operation of 14 wind power plants in the states of Piauí and Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil. Energy from the wind plants is connected directly to the Brazilian power grid and therefore through wind power we can create energy without burning fossil fuels, making it an emission free source of power, and saving an average of 650,000 tons of CO2 per year, the equivalent of 65,000 people’s worth of CO2 emissions in the UK.
On top of the above the project's specific focus on the necessities of the local communities through collective construction helps to transform realities and collaborate to a legacy in the territory generating shared value for the stakeholders.
This project helps contribute to goals 1, 4, 6, 10, 11, and 13 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
