Now that the holiday season is behind us, lots of people will be taking up New Year resolutions – back to gym, read more books or make more time for friends and family. How about adding ‘reducing my carbon footprint’ to the list? With the help of Target Neutral, you can find easy ways to reduce your carbon emissions from driving, which could also help you to save money. Isn’t that a great way to start 2012?
Recently, the British Olympic Association held its annual fundraising ball in London, which brought together more than 2,000 guests from the world of entertainment and sport, including Olympic legends, Team GB hopefuls and even royalty.
At last! A short film that explains carbon offsetting simply.
Are you baffled by all the jargon around climate change and carbon footprints? Puzzled by how your effort to neutralise your travel footprint supports the green economy globally? Curious to know what wind farms and pig farms have in common? Want to know how to cut your carbon footprint from travel as well as offset the remainder?
Unless we’re walking or cycling, every mile we travel creates a carbon footprint. Target Neutral is a not-for-profit scheme that can help you take those few simple and easy steps to tackle your own carbon footprint from travel and save yourself money.
Target Neutral is all about you, me and everyone working together to reduce our carbon footprint. Six outstanding athletes will join us to learn and then show how they do it. Join us – and step into carbon action with Target Neutral.
At Target Neutral, we’re proud to have been appointed as the Official Carbon Offset Partner to the London 2012 Games.
As a leading ‘not for profit’ provider of services to reduce and neutralise carbon emissions from transport, we have worked closely with the organisers and other London 2012 partners on how Target Neutral can help to deliver London 2012’s aim to be the most sustainable Games possible.
As well as our offer to offset the carbon footprint of the journey to the Games of millions of ticketholders, we’ve committed to offsetting the entire carbon emissions from 5000 Games vehicles. We’re also challenging and supporting a group of athletes to reduce and offset their carbon footprint as they prepare for the Games and to share that experience with London 2012 audiences.
We want millions of people to think about the mobility choices they make every day and with our support, step into carbon action with Target Neutral.
We’ve recently launched, not one but two, ‘first of a kind’ carbon calculators. These simple to use tools can help you to understand how much carbon you emit from the journeys you make each day and take steps to reduce it.
The first has a simple ‘number plate look-up’ facility which provides a quick and accurate carbon footprint specific to your car model as well as measuring your footprint from your air, train and bus travel. The second calculator is unique to motorists by allowing you to explore what changes you could make and calculate the effect that each change could have on your carbon footprint.
Just click here to step into carbon action and take charge of your carbon footprint from travel.
Two top athletes – Jessica Ennis and Stef Reid – took on an expert eco-driver at a test track recently and came away realising that by eco-driving they could save as much as two tonnes of carbon dioxide and over £1100 from an annual fuel bill.
From 1 August 2011 our travel calculator will use the July 2011 DEFRA greenhouse gas conversion factors.
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Adam Hart Davis explains how it works in his inimitable style
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See the volume of CO2 emissions associated with our transport choices
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Find out how a micro hydro electric generation project works
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Visit the BP London 2012 web site
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BP Target Neutral is not for profit, so when you pay to offset your transport emissions, apart from the card payment fee, every penny you invest in carbon offsetting goes directly to projects that prevent or remove CO2 emissions.
BP Target Neutral is a founding member of ICROA, the International Carbon Reduction and Offsetting Alliance.
