Greenfiniti Consulting and Investment

Why Offset Your Carbon Emissions?

• Be an Environmental Leader:The climate change threat is real, severe and it’s gaining momentum day by day. As legitimate representatives and vectors of popular will, public institutions must be at the forefront of global efforts to combat climate change. Your institution should learn to look beyond immediate and local environmental priorities and take the lead in addressing the climate crisis.

• Demonstrate Social Responsibility: By accepting responsibility for the impact of your decisions and activities on the society and the environment, you contribute to sustainable development and reinforce public practices of ethical behavior.

• Gain Valuable Experience: Offsetting carbon emissions now will help your institution meet current and impending regulations in Europe, Asia and North America. Comprehensive mandatory registration of public sector institutions will likely follow by 2012-2015.

• Avoid Pain: Not reducing your carbon emissions now will likely have long-term costs for the public image of your institution due to loss of reputation among important stakeholders such as the government, financial sector, media and even your own employees.

• Stay Ahead of the Pack: The global carbon market has completed the transition stage and it is expected to reach $150 billion in value and $5 billion tones in trade activity in 2009. This confirms the strong and growing interest of the public and private sector to embrace and integrate CO2 offsetting and reduction mechanisms in their activities.

• Expand Your Horizons: 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 help you successfully adjust to the new environment and develop your public agenda accordingly.

• Cut your operating costs: Take advantage of the various tax credits and shelters offered by federal and provincial authorities for reducing your environmental footprint.

Who else offsets?

Thousands of public institutions such as universities, municipalities, governments and international organizations:

University of New York	HM Government (UK)
University of Harvard	University of Oxford
German Government	The United Nations
Government of Japan