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Beyond the price per tonne, ask yourself:

◊ Who does the project help?

◊ What does it protect?

◊ How many co-benefits are generated beyond just the carbon?

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Sustainability Beyond Carbon

What do you want to help address, at no extra cost, with your carbon spend?

2,000,000,000 people do not have access to safe water (WHO).

Over 2 billion people’s drinking water is contaminated with faeces.

785 million people cannot access clean water within 15 minutes walk (one way).

6,000,000,000 people use open fires or simple, inefficient stoves.

4 million people each year die prematurely from household air pollution.

Almost 50% of pneumonia deaths in kids under 5 years are caused by breathing soot (WHO).

3/4 of a billion people have no access to electricity, each one of them using about 22 kWh per year.

Each year between 2015 and 2020, 10 million hectares were deforested.

Species loss is massive, many threatened, endangered and critically endangered species are declining.

Indigenous people and landless poor don’t have access to land tenure, good governance or the enforcement of their recognised rights.

With so many co-benefits on offer, you can select a project mix targeting outcomes you value.

Southern Cardamom REDD+

445,339 ha project protects a critical part of Cardamom Mountains Rainforest Eco-region and part of the Indo-Burma Hotspot, a global biodiversity hotspot.

Uncontrolled small-scale forest conversion to agricultural land and plantations makes it one of SE Asia’s most threatened forest landscapes.

The project protects these forest habitats from fragmentation and destruction, and other threats like poaching.

Supporting communities and nearly 4000 families, it provides training, employment and economic opportunities, addresses food security and improves health and education facilities.

98 rangers and a 25-person community anti-poaching unit patrol the project area.

Southern Cardamom protects critical habitat for 17 endangered and critically endangered species including Asian elephant, Asiatic black bear, sun bear, large spotted civet and clouded leopard, and opens the possibility of tiger reintroduction.

Safe Water Project in Rwanda III

In Rwanda, 31% of people lack clean water access and about 3,000 children die each year from diarrhea.

Before the project, local communities used fossil fuel and/or non-renewable biomass to boil water for purification.

Safe, clean water is provided through the project’s repair, rehabilitation and maintenance of 30-100 hand-pumped boreholes, removing the need to boil dirty water.

In cooperation with a local NGO, safe water meeting water quality requirements is provided to local communities, with replacement hand pumps locally made.

Safe water decreases forest biomass use, helping protect forest’s habitat and stored carbon while improving water and indoor air quality which helps improve health outcomes.

Having access to safe and clean drinking water helps avoid many health problems linked to the use of unsafe drinking water like diarrhoea, intestinal infections and parasites.

Without the project, women and girls do unpaid and dangerous work fetching and purifying water which reduces their time to do other things like paid work, study, rest and social interaction.

Kulera Landscape REDD+

The project targets 169,136 ha of forest in the border zones of 3 critical Protected Areas – islands of standing forest in a heavily degraded landscape.

These protected areas have high biodiversity values, being habitat for iconic African species (mammals and reptiles), over 160 bird species and 215 orchid species.

Degradation pressures are rapidly increasing as the local population intensifies and expands their exploitation of forest resources to unsustainable levels.

In a pro-poor approach to community-based sustainable forest management, the project empowers more than 45,000 households (over 800 villages) within the surrounding 10 km.

Kulera is strengthening land-tenure and governance; undertaking forest protection activities like patrolling; helping reduce fuelwood use and creating alternatives; and developing local enterprises based on sustainably harvested non-timber forest products like honey and coffee.

Improved Cookstoves Project for Malawi and Mozambique

20,000+ domestic fuel-efficient cookstoves replace inefficient three-stone fires or traditional pot supports.

Project reduces non-renewable forest biomass use, conserving existing forest and helping protect ecosystems and wildlife habitats, which in turn helps protect watersheds, regulate water table levels and prevent flash flooding.

Less time is spent collecting fuel, reducing the work burden for women and children; time available for alternative economic activities and schooling.

Indoor air pollution is reduced benefiting women and children in particular.

Indoor smoke causes 40% of all childhood pneumonia as well as chronic lung disease in women. (WHO)

Cookstoves are safer, helping to reduce burn injuries especially for children.

Economic activity and direct local employment created in rural Malawi through local assembly, distribution, maintenance and monitoring activities.

Money spent on cooking fuel is reduced, improving household expenses.

Mai Ndombe REDD+

Project protects 300,000 ha of the world’s second largest intact tropical rainforest; supporting some of the world’s most impoverished and marginalized people, in one of the least-developed places on Earth.

Enormously bio-diverse, it is critical Bonobo and forest elephant habitat.

Carbon finance provides basic development needs for 180,000 remote people with little or no access to basic social services.

Working closely with villages and communities it deals with the leading deforestation drivers – logging, agriculture and fuelwood/charcoal.

Participatory, community-based conservation approach focuses on addressing logging; sustainable agriculture and development; and village-centred capacity building:

• Schools: 3 built (4 more under construction).
• Established mobile medical clinic, treating thousands of patients.
• Emergency vaccinations provided to children in all villages during the 2019 Measles outbreak.

Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation

Covering one of Indonesia’s largest remaining intact peat swamp forests, the project is protecting and restoring nearly 150,000 ha of peatland ecosystems and is reforesting over 4,400 ha.

It contains vast carbon stocks, over 14 million tonnes above ground and over 546 million tonnes in the peat.

Without the project, the forest would have been converted to fast-growing industrial pulpwood plantations.

The project area is biodiversity rich, supporting 384 animal and 314 plant species.

Home to 2 critically endangered, 11 endangered and 31 vulnerable species.

It has over 5% of the world’s Orangutan (almost 4,000), Bornean Gibbon (almost 10,000) and Proboscis Monkey (over 500).

Containing no permanent human settlements, it is surrounded by villages, supporting traditional livelihoods including farming, fishing, and non-timber forest products harvesting.

Kasigau Corridor Phase II – The Community Ranches

Protects a 169,000 ha corridor of tropical dryland primary forest threatened by mosaic deforestation from slash and burn agriculture and illegal charcoal.

The project area contains 300 year old trees, 50+ large mammal species including cheetah, lion and elephants, 20+ bat and 300+ bird species.

• Ranger stations established with training provided – recruited from local communities.
• Community Wildlife Scouts address illegal activity – charcoal, bushmeat and poaching.
• Organic clothing factory training and employing young women – creating organic cotton clothing for export to USA and Europe.
• Community based eco-charcoal production developed – alternative to charcoal from primary forest.
• Organic nurseries sell citrus trees and jojoba – sales fund free seedlings for local farmers.
• School works funded – expanded education bursary scheme.
• Ecotourism and agroforestry developed – employment and training.

Some Guiding Concepts

Go beyond carbon neutral – it’s where we need to be – carbon neutral is a worthwhile place on the climate journey but its not the destination.

Undertake climate actions with multiple benefits that improve sustainability – do more/ get more with your carbon dollar!

An effective climate response goes beyond just complying – it really is the minimum  – what are you willing to do?

If carbon neutrality is a race to zero, then going beyond carbon neutral is the race to win.

Carbon offsetting should be easy, to encourage greater uptake.

Climate change is global.

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First-hand experience of the intricacies of responding to carbon-constrained future.

Helping clients quantify, reduce and neutralise their carbon footprint.

Achieve sustainability outcomes from your carbon spend.

Footprint, Action, Report, Offset

Trying to work out your carbon footprint? Boundary, Scopes 1, 2 and 3.

Want to take climate action?  You will need a plan.

Need to submit an emissions report? NGERS, CRFD Sustainability Report.

To get to carbon neutral, and beyond, you need carbon offsets!

Why Use Beyond Neutral?

As you move forward on your climate journey, Beyond Neutral offers key services that you will need

Creation of an effective climate action plan that works for you.

• Tracking, reporting and regularly reviewing your climate action plan strengthens your business’s climate response.

Achieve carbon neutral and beyond by using carbon offsets with high sustainability co-benefits.

• Help improve the lives of the world’s poorest people and protect the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
• You can buy them easily through the Beyond Neutral Carbon Shop or if needed, through a formal quote process.