The club previously ran a carbon offset scheme with AirBolivia, supporting their Cochabamba Project. This was cheap (£18 per tonne), but that reflected the fact that this was not removing carbon from the atmosphere permanently; it was only avoiding further emissions through deforestation. This approach is not sufficient to mitigate fossil fuel emissions (which stay in the atmosphere for centuries to millennia) and will not prevent the effects of climate change.
We have therefore adopted a new approach of supporting carbon disposal, which captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere on a ‘like-for-like' basis; carbon is removed and stored in an inert form that will last forever.
Carbon Disposal – key facts and figures
Our partners: The Carbon Removers
The Carbon Removers is a company headquartered in Edinburgh, and their main UK site captures biogenic CO2 from the Invergordon whisky distillery. The captured CO2 is then stored in aggregates (i.e. mineralised rock material used for construction etc) via OCO Technologies, as the UK is yet to have an operational geological storage site.
The company is well respected and have an excellent certification methodology for the credits in place. The project requires £400/tCO2 to be viable; donations made by members to our Carbon Disposal Fund throughout the year will be used to buy as many tonnes as we can at that price, with the objective of increasing the % of the club’s emissions covered each year.
Our target is to start by capturing 10% of the Club’s annual emissions in 2026.
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