We are pleased to support Climate Care, an organisation dedicated to funding projects throughout the world that reduce CO2 emissions, such as renewable energy and reforestation.

Climate Care were set up in 1998 as a company limited by guarantee - dedicated to reducing global warming. They are committed to leading best practice in our approach to offsetting emissions.

Each time we heat our homes, take a flight or drive the car, CO2 is added into the atmosphere. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that is released when fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are burnt.

We can all take simple steps to reduce the amount of CO2  we produce, we can also offset the rest.  Offsetting means paying someone to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere on your behalf.  In that way we can pay for the damage we are causing and the money helps to fund transition to a lower-carbon world.

There projects make real reductions in CO2, that would not have happened otherwise. They fund projects around the world, wherever funding goes farthest and has the greatest impact.

These involve:

• Renewable energy – this replaces non-renewable fuel such as coal
• Energy efficiency – this reduces the amount of fuel needed
• Forest restoration – this absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere as the trees grow

Wind Turbines

While wind generated energy is the fastest growing energy sector in the world, the turbines are still relatively expensive to build and often cannot compete with fossil fuel based electricity generation.

Developing wind energy is a commercial investment, in order to sell electricity.  The ability in the developing world to sell the CO2 emissions reductions from the electricity adds another stream of value that can make the investment more secure for the developer (as well as for the banks lending money), in addition to helping overcome uncertainties in other factors such as the market price for electricity. 

So revenue from CO2 reductions can make wind energy projects viable that would not otherwise have happened

As a guide:  a 0.8 MW turbine in India = approx. 800 tonnes CO2 saved per year.