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Tuesday, March 2nd 2010
Ed Miliband Unveils Loans Scheme For Green Home Improvements
The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, today announced details of a "green loans" scheme to help people pay for improvements to their homes to make them more energy efficient. The scheme, which would see loans remain attached to the ... click here to read more »
Monday, March 1st 2010
Spring Is Back To Normal – After 15 Freak Mild Years
Spring begins today, Monday 1 March, and it is running about three weeks to a month late compared to recent years. The coldest winter since 1981 has kept the natural world locked up tight, substantially setting back the blossoming of trees and sprin... click here to read more »
Thursday, February 18th 2010
UK's Greenest Office - The Greenshop Group
Following a countrywide search to name the UK’s Greenest Office, Gloucestershire based Greenshop Group have been announced as the Overall Winner of the “Cartridge Word’s Greenest Office competition. co2balance have been working in ... click here to read more »
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co2balance was founded in 2003 to provide a completely ethical and transparent means of carbon offset for businesses and individuals. We calculate your Carbon Footprint, advise you how to reduce it to the minimum and then offset the residue. This goes further than some environmental groups like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that seem to advocate minimisation and leaving it there. We don’t believe that it’s right to stop there and ignore the unavoidable residual emissions. Steps should be taken to tackle them too.
Carbon Offsetting works by investing funds to absorb or prevent the emission of a tonnage of CO2 equivalent to the client’s unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions. This is done by investing in projects that save energy emissions (efficiency-based offsets) or that absorb atmospheric CO2 (forestry-based offsets).
We will be the first to accept that Carbon Offsetting is not the complete answer to global climate change BUT we strongly believe that it has an important part to play while new technologies are introduced and become widespread and while new behaviours and altered (low carbon) lifestyles become commonplace. Some environmental organisations believe that we should all stop flying, use only public transport and buy only seasonal, local food. These are legitimate enough aims (although not without ancillary impacts like the loss of tourist pounds to some of the world’s poorest places) but people will not make these changes overnight; we need to support people in their transition towards low carbon lifestyles (sooner rather than later, admittedly). We see Carbon Offsetting as a high profile way to raise awareness and to help people start that journey.