Service providers step up with climate solutions

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Could your company buy its way to emissions reduction nirvana? A growing collection of service providers is ready to show you how.

Toronto-based Zerofootprint made headlines earlier this year when it announced a partnership with Air Canada that enables passengers to buy offsets that negate the emissions associated with their air travel. Yet, Zerofootprint’s services extend well beyond offsets.

Zerofootprint executive director Deborah Kaplan says the organization offers companies a total GHG solution through services ranging from an audit of CO2 emissions associated with operations, products and services to making recommendations and presenting programs that enable companies to reduce or otherwise offset the CO2 emissions as well as package and sell carbon credits.

“We encourage companies to do what they can to cut their emissions as deeply as possible through process improvements and other changes, and then offset the remainder. This means changes. It also means putting a price on carbon.”

When it comes to offsets, Ms. Kaplan says Zerofootprint sources and invests in renewable energy, reforestation and other offset projects that meet clients’ needs.

She adds, “Importantly, we also help companies engage their employees around climate change.

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