Photography Plan Vivo
Workmaze
Becoming Carbon Neutral
“The nature of our work means that our consultants do travel the world and we appreciate that there are very positive business benefits to be gained by taking positive action to offset our carbon emissions. UBoC was able to help us to calculate our carbon footprint, give us advice about ways of reducing our energy usage and enable us to purchase the relatively small number of Plan Vivo credits we needed to offset our footprint, enabling us to become carbon neutral. It’s fantastic to know that by supporting this project we will also be helping to improve the livelihoods of some of the poorest people in Africa.”
Jane Barrett, Managing Director of Workmaze
- Workmaze is a career coaching and information company in Harrogate which has become the first small business to offset its carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits from UBoC. Set up in 1999, Workmaze helps people to find their perfect career. It has links with over 45 business schools throughout the world, delivering career services and information products.
- The company is offsetting its carbon footprint by supporting a small rural community development project in Malawi. Working in a heavily deforested region of the country, the project works with farmers enabling them to plant trees on their farms, trains them to monitor the amount of carbon stored and through doing so, creates the carbon credits that have been bought by Workmaze.
In addition to receiving income from the sale of carbon credits, local communities will also benefit from the growth of the trees on their land through increased access to fruits, medicines and wood for fuel and construction. In this way, the project works with some of the poorest people in Africa to improve local livelihoods and protect biodiversity. The carbon offsets are certified against the Plan Vivo Standard and are from the community based reforestation project, Trees of Hope, in Malawi which is run by Clinton Development Initiative.
