Climate change

On May 1st this year I started using a formula I have developed to calculate the carbon footprint of each of our customer's moves. I then started to include in my quoted price the cost to have this carbon footprint offset through an organisation called The Carbon Neutral Company.

The cost is not great - £8 per tonne of co2. There's been a lot of bad publicity about the offsetting industry, because after some investigation it seems that some of the offsetting schemes don't meet up to the claims being made.

I'm confident that the Carbon Neutral Company is employing best practice. They offset the co2 I report to them by contributing to a scheme to replant the Caledonian forests, and then they send out a certificate to confirm this has been done.

After carrying out some research I realised that the transport industry is one of the major contributors to co2 and other greenhouse gas levels. We have, therefore, a responsibility to make an effort to identify ways that we can reduce the co2 our trucks produce. Meeting E.U. standards is one of ways, and so is offsetting.

Some critics argue that carbon offsetting is just a marketing gimmick, others point out to the claims that offsetting is dodgy science. For me, well I'm reminded of something Mahatma Ghandi said:

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it"

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