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HARBEC is working to be a "Carbon Neutral" company |
What does carbon neutral mean to us? Basically, we don't want our energy use to add greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. After we have tried every way possible to do everything possible to remove or omit it directly ourselves, we'll take out the same amount somewhere else by purchasing carbon credits towards renewable energy, energy efficiency or from environmental projects like reforestation. What does it mean to “offset” the CO2 emissions? We can lower the CO2 emissions we are responsible for by doing things like driving less, recycling, using renewable energy, and buying products like compact fluorescent bulbs. However, it is virtually impossible to reduce our CO2 output to 0. That’s where “carbon offsetting” comes in. Offsetting allows an individual, business, or organization to lower CO2 emissions in another location by an amount equivalent to those in which we create. How is this possible? Organizations sell carbon offsets and use the proceeds to support high-quality renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects, which all result in lowering CO2 emissions in other locations. Carbon offsetting is the act of mitigating ("offsetting") greenhouse gas emissions. Some carbon offset methods-
The carbon footprint is a measure of the exclusive global amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted by a human activity or accumulated over the full life cycle of a product or service (see Wiedmann and Minx, 2008). Calculate your own carbon footprint at stopglobalwarming.org or climatecrisis.net. |
Working to be a carbon neutral company. |