Our Partnership With The CarbonNeutral Company
As we develop, we examine regularly the options for stimulating awareness and action on climate change and energy. Increasingly, there are new brands, taglines and approaches to communicate the challenge, issues and opportunities in this complex arena. We believe that the brand, 'CarbonNeutral®' is an engaging, widely-recognised, robust and positive way to stimulate action.
The CarbonNeutral Company, which has developed this leading standard for voluntary action on climate change, also helped us launch and develop the programme.
CarbonNeutral status can be achieved by almost anything – entire companies, events, products and services. It represents the point at which greenhouse gas emissions have been assessed, reduced where possible and the remaining non-reducible emissions offset through high quality renewable energy, energy-efficiency or forestry projects. This status is backed up by a standard – The CarbonNeutral Protocol and an independent audit process that assesses our application of the standard.
Since January 2008, because of the introduction of the Kyoto Protocol, we are not able to register local projects as CarbonNeutral. We do offer a carbon balancing option through local projects. CarbonNeutral projects are now based overseas, and delivered through the CarbonNeutral company. For more information on project types, offset, and balancing click here.
For more information on the CarbonNeutral verification process click here.