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Our environmental impact
Our Impact on the Environment
Our services are built around a caring, committed approach to learning. By extension we also care about the impact we have on the environment. At the moment we are focused on reducing our direct impact through carbon emissions.
Our Carbon Signature 2023
We remain carbon neutral in our service delivery in 2023.
We reduced our carbon footprint by aproximately 64% this year by eliminating carbon emissions from most of our operations including: staff commuting, transport of goods (such as food parcels) and heating and lighting our building.
We offset 2.4 tonnes of carbon generated by our beneficiaries travelling to our services and from our supply chain.
Our Carbon Signature 2020-21
We aim to reduce the greenhouse gases generated through our activities. We estimate that we generated 5.9tonnes of carbon emissions in 2019. This includes: - 3.55 tonnes from staff commuting and transport of goods, such as food parcels;
- 1.23 tonnes from consumables, including: heating, lighting and water for the community buildings we use and the supply chain emissions generated from resources used in delivering our activities;
- 1.09 tonnes from our beneficiaries travelling to us: three quarters of our beneficiaries drive an average of 2 miles (each way) by car to attend our services.
- 3.55 tonnes from staff commuting and transport of goods, such as food parcels;
- 1.23 tonnes from consumables, including: heating, lighting and water for the community buildings we use and the supply chain emissions generated from resources used in delivering our activities;
- 1.09 tonnes from our beneficiaries travelling to us: three quarters of our beneficiaries drive an average of 2 miles (each way) by car to attend our services.
Steps we are taking to reduce our carbon footprint
We seek to reduce our emissions as far as possible and then offset the impact we have. We design our services as locally rooted and led by people who have direct experience of the challenges we seek to address amongst our communities. This enables us to reduce carbon emission from transport. Whenever possible, we try use community buildings that have plans to reduce carbon emissions. In 2020, we implemented plans to reduce our emissions by 43% relative to our 2019 benchmark.
Steps we are taking to offset our carbon emissions
We offset our carbon emissions by funding measures to reduce the use of wood fuel in India. This is particularly important to us partly because most of our beneficiaries descend from South Asia.
In parts of rural India, cooking is responsible for 90% of household energy consumption and 75% of that is met through fuel wood and agricultural waste. The World Health Organization estimates that 400,000 women and children die each year from exposure to smoke generated by burning this type of fuel. So, we offset our carbon emissions by funding new cooking stoves.
This program helps improve living conditions for some of the poorest people in India, reducing the cost of cooking and the need to collect firewood. It also create employment opportunities for people involved in the manufacture, distribution and maintenance of stoves in India. The fuel efficient stoves provided as part of this program also reduce cooking times, enabling women in project households to invest more time in productive and capacity building activities.
