Greenbuild Carbon Offset
Since 2002 Greenbuild has offset 100% of carbon emissions related to the event activities. The scope of our footprint includes all emissions related to energy consumption at our host venue, celebration venue and occupied hotel room nights. It includes emissions from airline travel for all attendees and staff, freight and fuel for shipping and energy consumption related to all our virtual attendees. Please help us choose a project that our offsets will support. VOTING IS LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
Project Information & Impact
Below is an outline of our Carbon Offset project choices for Greenbuild 2022. After reading about each, please cast your at the bottom of the page.
Colorado & Montana Grasslands- USA
Grasslands are an important and stable carbon store with 90% of their biomass below ground in the long roots of the grass. This project’s goal is to create financial incentives for conserving valuable grasslands that support rare and endangered endemic species. They’re also used as an outdoor school to teach5th grade students botany, zoology and geology.
Sichuan Household Biodigester- China
The project distributes small-scale biogas machines to low-income rural households with livestock. The biogas machines digest manure and recover the methane by-product through the process of anaerobic digestion. This offers clean and affordable energy to homes and fertilizer for agriculture. In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the project improves indoor air quality and sanitation for rural communities.
Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve- Borneo
This project preserves carbon-dense tropical peat swamp by helping to halt deforestation of roughly 65,000hectares of forest which was originally slated for conversion to palm oil plantations. The project focuses on both community development – encompassing 2,000households living within the project area – and biodiversity conservation, particularly the protection of the endangered Borneo Orangutan.
Domestic Energy Systems- India
This domestic energy project distributes and maintains solar lighting and charging systems as well as clean biomass cookstoves to thousands of rural households across India. This replaces traditional kerosene lamps and open stoves. It significantly reduces fuel costs whilst reducing illnesses from indoor smoke and helping kids study in the evenings.
Acre Amazonian Rainforest Conservation- Brazil
This collection of three projects aims to prevent deforestation across105,000 hectares of pristine rainforest in the Amazon basin, protecting some of the world’s most biodiverse habitats. The project includes a range of benefits for local communities including agricultural education, doctors visits and the development of basic business skills.
Teak Afforestation- Mexico
This tree planting project create steak plantations to obtain high value, sustainable timber products and to sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide. This contributes to climate change mitigation while simultaneously creating jobs and restoring degraded land.
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Please select the Carbon Offset project below.
Colorado & Montana Grasslands- USA
Sichuan Household Biodigester- China
Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve- Boreno
Domestic Energy Systems- India
Acre Amazonian Rainforest Conservation- Brazil
Teak Afforestation- Mexico
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