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Carbon Offsetting The greenhouse effect is a global problem that affects us all.
Greenhouse gases exacerbate the greenhouse effect, regardless of where in the world they are released. Correspondingly, all measures that reduce emissions entail a reduction in the global greenhouse effect regardless of where the reduction takes place. This is the foundation for the Kyoto Protocol.
Marine Transportation is a source of carbon dioxide emissions, which increases the greenhouse effect. Our calculators allow you to quantify these emissions, and the next step is to offset them, by funding projects elsewhere that reduce emissions in to a corresponding degree.
When you offset on this site, your money goes towards emissions reductions from renewable energy projects certified under the Kyoto Protocol. An additional side effect of offsetting is that by raising the cost of your carbon emissions, it creates an additional incentive to reduce your emissions.
A shipment of 1 container weighing 35 tons between Gothenburg and New York generates approximately 5 tons of CO2. Through the GreenSea calculators, cargo owners, shippers, charterers and others can reduce the impact on the climate of their shipment by purchasing the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide reductions.
A time charterer will be able to ascertain the CO2 emissions of his chartered ship, and a bunker trader will be able to offer his clients CO2 compensated bunker.
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Reducing your own emissions is an important first step, but for those emissions that you do not manage to avoid, you can "neutralise" their impact by creating corresponding carbon emissions reductions somewhere else. This is known as "carbon offsetting" or "becoming climate neutral". Due to the global nature of climate change, emissions in one location that are balanced by emissions reductions in another location have no net effect.
The projects we provide are all renewable energy generation (e.g. wind farms) in developing countries that otherwise have high rates of fossil fuel use in their energy sector. So,by choosing to neutralise your emissions, you are contributing to establishing green power in these countries and thereby reducing the amount of fossil fuel that would otherwise be consumed.
Our projects are all approved and monitored within the framework established by the Kyoto Protocol.
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