Sustainability is a continuous development
As we progress on our mission to become a carbon negative business, we have begun offsetting our own emissions in excess and contributed towards some fantastic climate projects!
Having assessed several solutions around the world, we picked two projects that are most relevant to our initiative and close to our business – one facilitates projects in Central America and another is in Africa.
Crucially, both sets of projects aim to fulfil the Sustainable Development Goal, Climate Action, which is the core focus within ERA’s carbon negative journey.
Whilst Climate Action is central to our cause, we decided to pick these offsetting activities as they extend beyond environmental action and into other important issues such as empowering women and helping with local employment. In addition, the projects in Africa look at reducing costs in fuel purchasing which aligns with our core business offering.
Taking all these factors into account, we believe these projects take a holistic approach to being a force for good and encouraged us to offset our emissions in this way.
As the world and businesses are evolving, so is work within sustainability; the development never ends. Approaching corporate sustainability from the point of view of value creation allows us to see not only our successes but also our areas of development, which we will keep developing accordingly.
Sustainability is a journey, not a destination.
Scroll down to start exploring details from our initial offsetting projects.
Focus on Forestry Guatemala: Forest conversation and indigenous communities support in Sierra de Lacandon
Co-benefits:
- Stronger local governance
- Decreases illegal practices (hunting & logging)
- Assures legality of land use rights
- Women empowerment
- Ecosystem conservation
- Protects environmental functions of the forest
- Reforestation and limiting deforestation
- Supports biodiversity and endangered species
- Cultural/archaeological value of the forest
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Focus on Cookstove Kenya: Distribution of burn cookstoves
Co-benefits:
- Reduced deforestation and improved biodiversity
- Less indoor air pollutants from the burning of fuel in the family home
- Women have to spend less time collecting firewood, which makes it possible for children and young girls to attend school
- Reduced costs in the purchase of fuel for households
- Local employment – since the stoves are produced and sold in Kenya, the project activity has created employment across the stove supply chain from manufacturing, distribution and sales of the stove.
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