Did you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If you're
still mulling it over, here's an idea - why not decide to offset your annual
car mileage with Climate Stewards? The average annual mileage in the UK is
7,900 miles. If you'd like to see what that looks like in terms of CO2, head on
over to the climate stewards site www.climatestewards.org and have a go with
their brand new carbon calculator. They have rebuilt the calculator to add more
options and to give you access to the latest Defra carbon factors
More and more organisations are realising that offsetting
has a role to play in compensating for their impact on our planet. Many
organisations have worked hard to reduce their carbon footprint, but some
carbon emissions are inevitable if they are to do their jobs. Two UK partners,
Tearfund and Wootton George Consulting, explain why they choose to offset with
Climate Stewards:
"Tearfund is passionately committed to action on
climate change, which hits the very poorest communities around the world in the
countries where we work hardest and first. We help these communities to adapt
to their changing climate, but also advocate for much more radical political
action globally to tackle climate change. We seek to reduce our flights as much
as we possibly can, but as an international development agency we will always
have to make some flights. For those flights that are unavoidable we offset
with Climate Stewards. We are pleased to work in partnership with Climate
Stewards in this way and support their excellent work." Paul Cook,
Advocacy Director.
Wooton George Consulting: "We are very aware that all
business activity has an impact on the environment and, while we try to
minimise this - for example by using public transport as much as possible - we
also wanted to do something positive. In this regard our support for Climate
Stewards helps us to do this. Not only does it help us offset out carbon
impact, but it means we are helping a community in Africa. It's great to know
that for every piece of work we do in the UK, a tree is being planted and
maintained by local people in Ghana." Simon George, Director.
