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 »
Science Validation
Our methods have been validated by Bournemouth University’s School of Conservation Sciences...read more
co2balance has been working with Bournemouth University’s School of Conservation Sciences for a number of years in order to provide external validation for the science behind its operations. This process involves regular reviews of the factors used in our calculators (although these are, in any case, provided by the UK Government and therefore have a solid foundation). This regular reportage has enabled co2balance to produce what we believe to be the most robust and accurate set of carbon calculators and most credible series of carbon offset projects anywhere in the world. A certificate of scientific validity is available on request.
Bournemouth University have also used our calculators to establish their own footprint