Latest Carbon News
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 »
Climate Change
Climate change is often in the news, with the threat of changing and more vicious weather patterns on the horizon. Whilst there are many causes of climate change, the villain that is mainly singled out is carbon dioxide, and that is why we are told to reduce our carbon emissions, or our "carbon footprint".
Individually any changes that we make to reduce our carbon footprint may seem small, even insignificant. But like voting, the more people do it, the bigger difference it makes.
Turning off lights, walking rather than taking the car all help in terms of carbon reduction. But there are occasions when we need to drive the car, and even public transport emits carbon.
To tackle this we can invest in carbon offsetting schemes. This is where action is taken to either absorb or prevent the emission of carbon dioxide equivalent to your own carbon footprint.
There are a range of carbon offset projects in Africa based around energy efficiency that prevent carbon from being released.