What People Say About Us
Currently Over 75% of earth's land is degraded and turning into desert.
Pristine ancient rainforests across the world are being cut down at an unprecedented rate, the primary reason for this is 'monoculture' (an industrial agriculture technique).
This 'profit-over-planet' model of production is severely damaging to our planets life support system. It pollutes water, destroys soil, replaces the homes of countless numbers species with a single species of crop.
The projects we support work with natural principles of regeneration. A series of ecological solutions which restores health to the environment as a whole, whilst providing diverse food and clean water for humans and animals to thrive.
The current state of global deforestation
- The world's forests are disappearing at a rate of about 13 million hectares per year, equivalent to the size of Greece.
- According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area of forest the size of a football field is destroyed every single second.
- Deforestation is responsible for the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species each year.
"New and radical solutions are urgently needed to help earth repair and strengthen our climate change resilience."
Our planet is experiencing wide-scale ecosystem collapse, catastrophic topsoil & biodiversity loss, and we are facing a global food & water crisis.
The strategies we support protect our earth's life support system and work with earth's natural regeneration process, they provide people and planet with a powerful potential to heal.
Coach Operator Carbon Balancing
Green Paw Footprint work closely with National Coach Network https://nationalcoachnetwork.com/ and SMC Coach Hire www.smccoachhire.com. We offset all the carbon purchased via both of these websites.
If you are Coach Operator and you wish to offset your Coach or Minibus Carbon please contact an expert.
The Team
Every member of our board of directors is a thought leader who has made significant contributions to our society.
Each one brings a unique set of skills and expertise to our organization.
Ste Chesters
Mr. Taylor has served as the Chair of the company since 2007 and is a lead director of several international groups and organizations.
Olly Boon
Mrs. Whitman is an honorary member of several corporate boards. She plays a crucial role in every company decision.
Ed Johnson
Mr. Johnson is a professor of economic sciences and spent several years as a member of local and municipal governments.
Maria Renaud
Ms. Renaud was elected to the board after several years of working with the company. She is a trained medical scientist.
Standards
CHANGE!!! Using our own Green Paw Footprint Process
All of our projects are certified to the highest standards through the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), UK and EU Emissions Trading Standard (EU + UK ETS), Gold Standard Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER) and Certified Emission Reductions (CER) programmes.
As the four largest, and most regulated offsetting standards in the world - we do not select any project that is not regulated this way as this ensures all of the money spent goes directly to the offsetting initiatives supported. This also ensures the measurements, and tonnes of CO²e are accurate, and verified. We strongly recommend avoiding any offsetting projects that do not follow these standards.
To qualify for these standards, all projects go through a rigorous and public registration and issuance process, third party audit and are overseen by the CDM Executive Board (appointed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), ratified by the Kyoto Protocol. Regulated and verified, the international carbon credits that we use are the exact same credits as those used by multinational organisations, and even countries in their emission reduction schemes.
For our business customers, we ensure that our methods to quantify, monitor, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions within organisations is accurate and correct following the ISO (International Organisation for Standardization) 14064-1 and GHG Protocol Emissions Standards following the principles of relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency and accuracy.
How many trees to plant to offset the Carbon of an average citizen?
- With an average lifespan of 40 years per tree.
- Average of 20kg of Carbon absorbed each year per year.
- 8 to 15 tonnes = 8,000 to 15,000KG per year.
- So for one person 400 to 750 trees are needed to be planted every 40 years.
- The trees must have enough growing space to keep absorbing C02 for the 40 years.
"Why planting trees is not enough"
Although there’s currently a huge increase in tree planting, globally many of the statistics used are solely based on numbers of trees planted not survival rates of those trees.
Due to lack of appropriate landscape assessment, inadequate soil conditions, lack of irrigation, presence of nearby herbicides and many other factors some survival rates of trees months and years after they were planted are often a fraction of the statistics which have been celebrated.
We recognise that in nature, Trees are a part of a whole ecosystem and for them to be given the best chance to thrive and grow to their potential, then tree's natural companions needed to be taken into consideration.
This is why we have worked alongside ecologists, environmental scientists, permaculture designers and regenerative agriculture specialists to devise a truly wholistic plan which is designed to maximise overall success rate and therefore accelerating Co2 transformation and o2 Production.
How Carbon Sequestration works?
Trees, plants, soils, and oceans absorb carbon dioxide (Co2). Trees, plants and grasses use it during photosynthesis to store carbon (C) and release oxygen (O2).
Trees, grasses, oceans and soils are able to store carbon (C) over a long period of time while producing oxygen (O2) for us to breathe.
The scientific community talks about this process in terms of carbon stored in the ecosystem. But when people talk about offsetting it is expressed as the Co2 equivalent (how much Co2 is taken in by trees, grasses, soils and oceans to offset emissions).
Green Paw Project
Green Paw Project is a registered charity in the UK. Green Paw Project is a charity dedicated to the welfare of animals, environmental conservation, rewilding of lands, planting trees, carbon sequestration, human reconnection to the natural world, and the cleaning of plastic and waste that litter our planet.
Green Paw Project is a strictly non-profit organisation that receives all of its funding from fundraising events and generous sponsors.
Wales
Equador
Climate Regeneration Projects.
Greenpaw and Partners focus
Our focus is to regenerate the damage and preserve what's left , here our our projects we passionately support.
All of our projects are certified through the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), UK and EU Emissions Trading Standard (EU + UK ETS), Gold Standard Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER) and Certified Emission Reductions (CER) programmes.
For our business customers, we ensure that our methods to quantify, monitor, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions within organisations is accurate and correct following the ISO (International Organisation for Standardization) 14064-1 and GHG Protocol Emissions Standards following the principles of relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency and accuracy.
Our Main Strategies are to:
What does the rise on in Co2 levels mean to the planet and to you?
Carbon levels in the atmosphere are exponentially rising. Co2 is the primary greenhouse gas. The rise in Carbon is caused by many factors such as use of fossil fuels, agriculture, fast fashion, flights and deforestation. Rising Co2 causes the planet to heat up and accelerate climate change.