We are achieving this as our carbon footprint (as a Group) for 2009/10 was 187.5 tonnes which is a 4.75% decrease on 2008/09 (please see Fourfront Group Carbon Footprint Statement 2010/11). Our ongoing commitment is to reduce our carbon footprint per capita by a minimum of 5% year.
Carbon Negative
We offset the balance of the carbon emissions we cannot avoid by doing something positive for the environment. We do this by working with the UK based environmental charity Moor Trees.
Established in 1999, Moor Trees creates and restores native woodland for biodiversity benefit and for climate change mitigation. We support their tree planting, which produces not only tangible environmental benefits, but also social ones through their working with hundreds of volunteers of all ages and abilities each year.
More recently, we have formed a new partnership with Trees for Cities, a London based independent charity working with local communities on tree planting and regeneration projects in urban areas.
The new partnership has already started developing a voluntary project in London that the Fourfront Group will continually develop and manage over the next few years.
2009/10’s carbon footprint (187.5 tonnes) will be offset through Moor Trees planting and managing 750 trees (Fourfront Group Carbon Offset Certificate).
We offset a further 10% to ensure the Group is Carbon Negative, and better still, we actually plant the trees we use for offsetting ourselves at the Fourfront annual planting weekend.
