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Overview
• About Climate Positive
• Carbon neutrality
• Carbon offset project overview
About Climate Positive
• Not-for-profit focused on
action & education on global warming
• Established to:
– Stop the onset of climate change
– Provide tools to measure, reduce and
offset carbon emissions with accredited
projects
• Australia’s only tax-deductible not-forprofit working with accredited offset
projects
Carbon neutrality
When practices contribute zero carbon
dioxide emissions to the atmosphere
• Households
• Operations
• Products
• Events
Measure – Reduce – Offset
Carbon footprint calculation
 Qualifying calculations and clarifying assumptions
builds credibility
 Partnering through the supply-chain reinforces strategy
Source: New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development
Inventory Case Study:
DHL Nordic
Emissions Inventory (tCO2-e)
Scope 1 Direct
7,265
Scope 2Electricity
52
Scope 3Other Indirect
327,634
Total
334, 951
Reduce emissions
• Review processes, procedures and
products to identify emission reductions
• Switching to green power
• Ongoing monitoring and management
• Cost savings
Offset residual emissions
Carbon offsetting is the act of purchasing
greenhouse gas emission reductions,
which have occurred somewhere else,
because you are unable or unwilling to
reduce your own greenhouse gas
emissions.
A mechanism to deal with residual
emissions that are impossible to reduce,
not a micro license to pollute
So what makes a good offset?
• Additionality
• Verified and accredited by independent
third-party
– Greenhouse Friendly, Gold Standard,
REC’s, Voluntary Carbon Standard
• Projects which displace fossil fuel use
• Projects assist transition to low carbon
economy
• Transparency of ownership
Offsets are not all offsets
the same
Prevention
•Low project risk
•Proven technologies
•Specific projects require
assessment
V.
Capture
•High project risk with
uncertain outcomes
•Permanence issues
•Additionality issues
Offset project types
Emission
Reductions
Sequestration
Fossil Fuel
Reductions
Renewable Energy
Greenhouse Gas
Destruction
Forests
Tillage
Geological
Landfill gas flaring
Other Greenhouse
Gas Reductions
Light bulb projects
PREVENTION
CAPTURE
Offsetting the MOSS conference
Beyond carbon neutral
1. Accredited emission reductions for
100% emissions produced
2. Additional restoration of biodiverse
forests
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Building wildlife corridors for habitat
Building resilience for biodiversity
Reducing salinity
Creating carbon sink
3. Additional education to embed
awareness and action
Accredited emission reduction
project
Biogas renewable energy project
• Greenhouse Friendly accredited
• Location: Baldivis, Rockingham, WA
• Capacity: 2.1 Mega Watts (can power 5,240 average
households per annum)
Climate Positive offset
Additional biodiversity restoration
Delivering maximum carbon outcomes
Climate Positive offset
Additional biodiversity restoration
• Building teams and resilience against climate
change
Stzelecki Ranges
<2% protected
Spot-tailed Quoll
Powerful Owl
Broad-tooth Rat
Gunyah Gunyah;
Remnant cool
temperate rainforest
SE slopes
Warm temperate rainforest
Fragmented mixed
use landscape
Corner Inlet NP:
RAMSAR Wetlands
New Holland Mouse
Swamp Antechinus
JAR Project:
Establishing Corridors
Climate Positive offset
Beyond carbon neutral