Carbon Offsetting

Many companies have chosen the carbon offset route as a way of mitigating the impact that their businesses have on the environment. Many then claim to be carbon neutral as a relatively pain free way of meeting their environmental responsibilities.

A recent article in Friends of the Earth magazine Earthmatters is shown on this page and can be read here or the whole report can be downloaded here.

The Severnprint approach is different – we think that the first task of a business is to make sure that it becomes as efficient as possible in its use of energy. This is an on-going process and is expensive and any carbon offset money is best spent in the company making its processes efficient.

Carbon offset as implemented by many other companies is dependent on taking the future benefits of environmental projects such as tree planting and applying these forward benefits to the current financial year.

Our links with Tree Aid have helped to plant many thousands of trees in an area of the world where they can have a signifcant impact in capturing carbon and preventing desertification. We have also planted many trees with our customer's help with our plant a tree schemes. However we have not and would not seek to try and pinch the carbon benefits of these positiive actions. We will reduce our carbon output through efficiency and by our own actions.