CO2balance and Village Water partnership delivers safe water to over 1 million people across Mozambique and Zambia

11 May, 2023 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Carbon Offsetting, CO2balance, Mozambique, Safe Water, Zambia

At the time of posting, CO2balance in direct partnership with Village Water and local field partners ECHO and WATSAN in Zambia and Mozambique respectively, have completed the rehabilitation of 2,986 boreholes- supplying safe water to 1,046,393 individuals. The number will continue to rise throughout this year as projects continue to expand at pace. What started… Read the full article >


CO2balance at IETA LACS 2022

14 November, 2022 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Climate Change, CO2balance, Conferences, Latin America

Some of our CO2balance team recently returned from attending the 2022 IETA Latin American Climate Summit, held at Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CO2balance are long-time members of the International Emissions Trading Association, regularly attending their important events and conferences. As we look to explore more project opportunities in the region, the LACS2022… Read the full article >


Zambia Western Province Site Visits and Local Stakeholder Consultation

11 July, 2022 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Safe Water, Zambia

LOCAL STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONOur Western Zambia Safe Water Project recently completed its Local Stakeholder Consultation (LSC) event. The project has already been running for a couple of years, but due to COVID-19 restrictions in the country, the stakeholder event had been delayed and CO2balance had until now not had the opportunity to visit the project, meet… Read the full article >


Western Zambia Borehole Project Update

25 February, 2022 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Uncategorized

We are delighted to share the news that we have succesffuly Design Certified and registered our Western Zambia Project which now helps deliver thousands of litres of safe water to communities and also begins generating carbon credits. To date, thanks to the great work of our partners Village Water, the project has already successfully rehabilitated… Read the full article >


Earth Hour 2021

27 March, 2021 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Safe Water, World Days

Tonight between 8:30-9:30 pm millions of people all over the world will be switching off the lights for Earth Hour. The initiative organized by WWF, now entering its 13th official year, encourages global citizens to take a symbolic hour to consider the needs of our planet. It is important to point out that this is… Read the full article >



Exploring Carbon Project Opportunities in Latin America

15 January, 2021 | Matthew Pike
Categories: CO2balance, Latin America

Our ongoing project work and the supportive work of our in-country project partners continues at pace, despite the obvious challenges of COVID-19. We are also looking at expansion into new project areas and carbon project technologies wherever the right opportunity presents itself. Latin America in general and specifically Central America remain locations where CO2Balance hope… Read the full article >


How to reduce your carbon footprint even when working from home

1 November, 2020 | Matthew Pike
Categories: Carbon Offsetting, Uncategorized

With the work commute on hold, we are now driving less, taking less public transport and even slurping our way through less disposable coffee cups. Whilst this may create a personal dip in producing significantly less carbon emissions, your working from home shift may not be as environmentally friendly as you may have imagined.. Here… Read the full article >


Introducing myself

8 September, 2020 | Matthew Pike
Categories: CO2balance

Hello all! My name is Matthew and I’m one of the latest recruits to join CO2balance- joining as a Carbon Project Officer. I join the team having studied and worked in different roles in the UK, Sweden and Brazil. My background is very much in the environmental and sustainable development landscape, although my most recent… Read the full article >