PET’s Carbon Strategy division has updated their offset projects through which you can neutralise those necessary personal, family and business CO2equivalent emissions!
What you do is: you “buy” the oxygen tonnage equivalent of your really nessary CO2 emissions, choosing from realistically valued (officially, independently & regularly audited) projects in different geographies!
The UK average carbon footprint is about 10 tonnes CO2 per person per year. This is about double the world average. It has fallen little since 1990. The UK government quotes a much smaller figure of about 6 tonnes CO2 per person per year, but this excludes imports/exports, aviation and shipping. This misleading reporting is much criticised. Now, including all greenhouse gases, the UK average footprint is about 13 tonnes CO2e per person per year.[mfn]source: https://www.carbonindependent.org/23.html[/mfn]
To compare: for 2019, including Resident and Foundation guest transport (cars & flights &c.), The Park Ecovillage Findhorn (with the Foundation’s “Cluny” site in Forres) calculated emissions of 7.1 tonnes CO2e/capita.
Here are the updated projects
Pacajai REDD + Project, Brazil, £15.50 per tonne of CO2e
The project area is part of the Amazon, the largest remaining rainforest on our planet. The Amazon is known for its amazing biodiversity; containing 10% of all species. The rainforest is home to some endangered species that rely on it for their survival.
This project is working to prevent unplanned deforestation in native forests, which has occurred due to logging, squatting and attempts to implement pastures. The project is expected to avoid over 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions over a 40-year period. This will be achieved by managing the land in the form of a “private conservation reserve”, through rigorous monitoring and enforcement. From 2012 the project has scaled-up its monitoring activities by employing and properly training local villagers for monitoring and enforcement activities.
The additional Gold Level CCB Award (currently undergoing revalidation) provides a guarantee of the exceptional social and environmental co-benefits of this project.
Improved cooking stoves, Uganda, £13.50 per tonne of CO2e
UpEnergy’s stoves replace primarily the traditional three-stone fires. Since it was founded, UpEnergy has served over 125,000 Ugandans. The environmental impact is considerable, with 30,000 tonnes of CO2e emissions avoided and over 120,000 trees saved thus far. The households served save several hours per day through reduced time needed for cooking and fuel collection, and those who purchase fuel save $72 per year.
Perhaps the most compelling impact on the individual level comes from the income generating opportunities offered to retailers and sales agents. For example, Aaron Okello is a motorcycle taxi driver turned stove salesman whose life was completely transformed due to income from working with UpEnergy. Aaron was able to relocate his wife and three children from northern Uganda to the city, rent suitable housing for the entire family, and pay school fees for all of his children, an important step towards recognition and respect in his culture.
Wind power plant, Mauritania, £9.80 per tonne of CO2e
Mauritania is a country in North West Africa. Despite an abundance of natural resources, Mauritania remains poor, and is classified as a Least Developed Country by the United Nations. The country’s economy is based on agriculture and livestock.
The Nouakchott plant is the first wind farm in the country, supplying an equivalent of 140,000 people with green electricity.
Wind power plant, India, £8.90 per tonne of CO2e
The main purpose is to generate clean form of electricity through renewable wind energy source. Bothe Windfarm Development Pvt. Ltd. is the promoter of the proposed project activity. The Project has 40 Wind Turbines of individual capacity 2MW each and 57 Wind Turbines of individual capacity 2.1 MW each in Maharashtra state of India. The total project capacity is 199.7 MW.
The Project is a new facility and it plans to utilize wind energy to generate electricity and supply it to distribution licences which is a part of the NEWNE (Northern, Eastern, Western and North-Eastern) grid of India.
Solar power project, India, £8.90 per tonne of CO2e
The project involves installation and operation of 56.25 MW (16.25 MW and 40 MW) solar power project in the village of Hoti in Medak, in the district of Telangana and the Sengottai in Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu State. The purpose of the project activity is to generate power using renewable energy (solar energy) which will feed into the power generated to the state grid in India.
(For more details about each project click here.)
PET’s Carbon Offset service
The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn has a very low carbon footprint, but like everywhere else, residents still produce CO2e emissions through their domestic&business cooking, heating and transport choices. Hence the Carbon Offset service. But it is not restricted to local users only! Au contraire: wherever you are on the globe, you’re welcome to offset your emissions through our global projects — the main thing is for all of us to neutralise them asap! They’re a hidden cost behind most of our purchases, which aren’t even calculated within wholesale/retail prices! Even so, a normally interested and intelligent person is able to “feel” into a product’s “true cost” — intuitively.
As the post-pandemic “new-normal” rolls out, PET invites you to act on your CO2e “feelings” by (1) educating yourself on your emission quantity[mfn]you can always fill in our calculator and not “submit” the result; all that’s required is having your annual household receipts to hand! [/mfn] (2) offsetting them[mfn]now you click on “submit” and pay the ( very reasonable) price [/mfn] via officially audited international project standards — as all our projects are (3) reviewing your personal choices re all your CO2e emissions[mfn]this’ll require some courage, to overcome your fear of the calculated “loss”, though when we remember the positive sides of the pandemic…[/mfn] and then permanently changing some small habits! Consider seriously doing it please, if not for yourself, then for the next generation!
Thanks in advance for your CARE in action. Any questions please to [email protected] c/o carbon strategy group.
