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Why Offset Your Carbon Emissions?
• Demonstrate Leadership: By taking the lead in reducing global carbon emissions you legitimate yourself as a visionary champion of Corporate Social Responsibility; this can also assist your company register with media influential inventories such as the UN Global Compact List, the Carbon Disclosure Project or the ISO 26000 Norms of Social Responsibility.
• Stay Profitable: Reducing CO2 emissions can help your company position itself as a market leader. By providing one of potentially most profitable competitive advantages, carbon neutrality offers an excellent strategy for services and product differentiation, especially in saturated markets.
• Expand Your Business: Carbon neutral business is expected to become the standard in the coming decades and the cornerstone of the new global economy. Acting now to reduce your carbon emissions will provide your company with a critical edge over the competition.
• Stay Ahead of the Pack: The global carbon market has completed the transition stage and it is expected to reach $150 billion in value in value and five billion tones in trade activity in 2009. This confirms the strong and growing interest of the private sector in embracing and integrating CO2 offsetting and reduction mechanisms in its business strategy.
• Gain Valuable Experience: Offsetting carbon emissions now will help your company meet current and impending regulations in Europe, North America and Asia. While mandatory registration of larger CO2 emitters is already in place as a result of the EU Climate Policy, the Kyoto Protocol and of the expected North American cap & trade system, the regulation of medium and small emitters follows closely behind, most likely by 2012-2015.
• Avoid Pain: Not reducing your carbon emissions now will likely have long-term costs for the brand value of your company, consumers’ confidence in your products, besides loss of reputation among important stakeholders such as the government, financial sector, media and even your own employees.
• Cut your taxes: Take advantage of the various tax credits and shelters offered by federal and provincial authorities for reducing your environmental footprint. Your competition most likely does it already!
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