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 »
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.