[Coral-List] Carbon offsetting

[Holger Anlauf]

Dear Emma,

I can recommend to you www.seacology.org , which has conducted many projects on islands around the globe with the aim of protecting high  biodiversity areas and providing renewable energy sources to local community. Personally I like the high percentage of the donations that are used in the projects and that the projects often involve indigenous communities.

The biggest project by Seacology has been to assist Sri Lanka in protecting its entire mangrove forests.

The US webpage does not provide a carbon offset calculator but the German webpage does (https://www.seacology.de/support-us/#support-us-co2rechner). You could use the translate option of your Browser to get and estimate of the carbon offset for your conservation efforts.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Holger Anlauf, PhD
On 10 May 2019, 14:49 +0200, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>, wrote:
> I just happened upon this BBC website discussing carbon offsets, and under
> "Argument 2" it lists 3 organizations that evaluate and list various
> carbon-offset programs.
>
> http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190409-carbon-offseting-pros-and-cons
>
> Cheers, Doug
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:58 AM Emma Lassiter via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone have recommendations for a carbon offsetting program? I know
> > there are many out there, but not if there's an especially effective one.
> >
> > Particularly given the large amount of air travel often involved in
> > conservation careers, it seems like an important personal effort to take
> > part in such a program.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Emma
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