Latest Carbon News
Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Energy Efficient cook stoves in Greater Accra, Ghana.
co2balance is currently establishing an energy efficient stove project in Greater Accra, Ghana. This project seeks to improve the indoor air quality, reduce the labour burden of women, and bring new, clean technologies to the region. The improved coo... click here to read more »
Tuesday, July 13th 2010
Carbon emissions threaten fish
Baby fish may become easy meat for predators as the world’s oceans become more acidic due to CO2 fallout from human activity, an international team of researchers has discovered. In a series of experiments reported in the latest issue of the P... click here to read more »
Monday, July 12th 2010
co2balance teams up with LVS to offset mobile phones.
It is estimated that there are up to 90 million redundant phones in the UK – more than one phone for each person. This number continues to grow as we upgrade to new models when our contracts expire. Today, mobile phones have an average lifespan... click here to read more »
Our Environmental Policy
We recognise that our own operations also have an effect on the local, regional and global environment. As a consequence of this, we are committed to continuous improvements in our own environmental performance and the prevention of pollution, as well as offsetting our own emissions.
The directors and staff participated in defining the policy and the creation of the Environmental Policy Action Plan. The Policy and the Action Plan have both been adopted by the directors and have been communicated to all employees. An annual review: carried out and presented to the directors with an aim to secure continual improvement of our environmental performance which can be achieved with the economically viable application of best available technology.
We welcome input from clients on this important feature of our work, thereby helping to sharpen our policy. We are also happy to advise clients by sharing our methods.
We are working towards accreditation under the Soil Association’s ‘Woodmark’ Scheme, which sets out standards for sustainable afforestation and woodland management.
The Environmental Policy Action Plan incorporates the following general features:
- Use electronic communications, reducing consumption of paper
- Use teleconferencing facilities to avoid travelling to meetings and to save time.
- Allow staff to work from home avoiding the need to travel or to heat/light offices
- Recycle waste paper, print cartridges, kitchen waste, and electronic equipment
- Use public transport when available
- Lift share to events,meetings, etc., to reduce fuel consumption
- Regularly service and maintain vehicles to ensure fuel efficiency
- Are seeking to implement renewable electricity generation at our homes and office
- Use low-energy bulbs and energy efficient equipment
- All our staff are CarbonZero