Offset Checkout

Effective Cookstoves Kenya

You support the using of improved cookstoves in Kenya.

Contribution to sustainable development and added social benefits:

• reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions
• avoids deforestation – also preventing soil erosion & nutrient loss & risk of flooding
• protects from lung diseases & lung cancer
• reduces neonatal complications
• reduces burns & injuries (from exposure to fire).

Renovation Boreholes Uganda

You support the renovation and maintenance of clean water boreholes in Uganda.

Contribution to sustainable development and added social benefits:

• no need to boil water
• no need to walk for miles
  (usually girls/women, often up to 5 miles; this project gives them time for more productive activities)
• in-community maintenance (self reliance and communal responsibility).

Resulting funds help repeat the process in other communities.

Preservation Rainforest Brazil

You help prevent unplanned deforestation in native forests due to logging, squatting and farmland creation. From 2012 the project scaled-up its monitoring activities by employing and properly training local villagers.

Contribution to sustainable development:

• provides training in forest and biodiversity monitoring & management, and work opportunities
• enhances communities’ organisational capabilities
• supports critical biodiversity habitats
• capacity building.

Reforestation Kenya plus

You help to mobilise and build the Great Rift Valley community’s capacity to rehabilitate, conserve and protect its natural ecosystems and promote the sustainable maintenance of a clean, healthy environment.

Contribution to sustainable development:

• poverty reduction through employment creation
• water catchment areas are conserved, providing water/food security
• planting 30,000 indigenous tress on 30 hectares
• birds, butterflies and other wildlife habitats conserved and others created
• bees attracted by the trees in flowering season benefit the community through sale of fruit and honey, and so reduce poverty
• nutritional benefit from the fruit trees
• pasture for animals during drought times (don’t have to go into the forest)
• prevention and control soil erosion.

This project is ‘buddy-ed’ with our Preservation Rainforest Brazil project: one tree planted PLUS one tonne carbon emissions offset.

Wind turbines India

You help with the installation and maintenance of 40 Wind Turbines, capacity 80MW. The electricity is sold to the state grid displacing an equivalent amount of fossil fuel power.

Contribution to sustainable development in Pune, in the State of Maharashtra, India:

• employment opportunities during the construction and operation of the project
• reduces the demand–supply gap in the region
• demonstrates clean technology in the region and helps encourage other wind power projects.

Tree planting UK plus

Planting trees sequesters our carbon emissions. Through photosynthesis trees absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and wood. By ensuring that trees planted are native broad leaf species we also help to preserve our environment and biodiversity.

Contribution to sustainable development:

• provides wildlife habitats & supports biodiversity
• planting native British trees
• nature-education of children
• enhancing UK landscape
• offset CO₂e emissions (carbon neutral).

This project is ‘buddy-ed’ with our Preservation Rainforest Brazil project: one tree planted PLUS one tonne carbon emissions offset.