CLEVEL UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2009
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CARBON REDUCTION COMMITTMENT UK, we are helping bigger companies
calculate their carbon footprints in line with recent UK legislation
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CARBON COMPENSATION (OFFSET) PROJECT DEVELOPMENT WITH NGO PRACTICAL
ACTION, this has successfully gone through a pilot phase in Kenya
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CARBON COMPENSATION WITH NGO GERES, we have expanding our work with
this ngo in cambodia to provide clients with verified carbon credits
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CSTREAM, Supply Chain Carbon Management, we have developed this new web
tool to help you manage the carbon footprint from your supply chain
- LOW CARBON INNOVATION – GROUNDHOUSE ON GRAND DESIGNS, we have extended our work on innovative eco building approaches
CARBON REDUCTION COMMITTMENT UK
CLEVEL
has recently won consultancy contracts to assist large organisations in
their response to this new UK legal requirement to UNDERSTAND carbon
footprints. It is estimated that some 20,000 larger organisations UK
are now obliged for the first time to assess their footprints and
participate in a carbon trading scheme. This is good news, but of
course needs to be seen in the light that many CLEVEL clients have been
doing this for several years already!
We
recently provided consultancy to help assess the Carbon Footprint for
Cancer Research UK and are looking forward to further work assisting
with carbon reduction action for the organisation.
We
will be contacting existing clients shortly to renew Carbon Balanced
status and discuss how you can benefit from being years ahead of 20,000
of the largest UK organisations in the field of Carbon Management.
CARBON COMPENSATION (OFFSET) PROJECT DEVELOPMENT WITH NGO PRACTICAL ACTION
As
well as our long standing East African forestry project, some of you
are familiar with our project development work in East Afica with the
global NGO Practical Action. Their mission is to use appropriate
technology to alleviate poverty and they have specific climate change
programmes and campaigns. Working with them in Kenya, we have provided
sole funding for a pilot project to make and install fuelwood efficient
clay woodstoves in western kenya. This new partnership between CLEVEL
and Practical Action provides social, ecological and carbon benefits.
It benefits the most vulnerable people in the region and is designed
to reduce pressure on forests. We have installed over 4000 woodstoves
for cooking in the pilot phase. www.practicalaction.org/easta
CARBON COMPENSATION WITH GERES
Our
second project has generated carbon offsets with the global NGO GERES.
Working with their cambodian offices, who have a longer established
stoves project, we have helped generate verified emission reductions
(VERs) that have been successfully assessed by the global standards
agency DNV.The project was awarded an Ashden Award in the UK http://www.geres-cambodia.
CSTREAM, Supply Chain Carbon Management
We
are currently developing a new web based technology to help people
measure and reduce their carbon footprint. It provides a co branded
website that an organisations suppliers are directed to to report /
measure their own carbon footprint. CSTREAM makes it easy for an
organisation to extend their carbon work into the supply chain.
GROUNDHOUSE ON GRAND DESIGNS
CLEVEL
has been working on promoting innovative eco design for homes and work
space for several years. From the pioneering Brighton ‘earthship’ to
the Brighton Ecovillage over the Marina, we have initiated and
delivered some great projects. Following on from this we recently
completed a new home and workspace called the Groundhouse which was
featured on channel 4’s Grand Designs programme. Kevin McCloud has put
the design in his all time top 5 projects. You can see a clip from the
film at http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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