Green office: WWF Peru compensates for its carbon footprint and promotes sustainable energies

Posted on 4 octubre 2010

Gold Standard certified that WWF compensated for 336.27 tons of greenhouse gases emitted on the last 12 months. The grant of credits equivalent to the volume of emitted gases promotes clean energies in China.

Monday, October 04. Lima, Peru.- As in recent years, WWF Peru received the Gold Standard certification last August, thus confirming their carbon footprint compensation from July 2009 to June 2010.

In the words of Liliana Lozano, WWF Peru Program Planning Officer, “the ecological footprint can be described as the impact of people in the environment, and a way to measure it is to estimate their greenhouse gas emissions, for example, through their fuel or electricity use”.

Gold Standard is a voluntary certification mechanism that grants carbon credits to companies and organizations, among others, that decide to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions investing the amount equivalent to their emissions through Gold Standard, in projects that promote the use of clean energies and energetic efficiency.

Because it is supported by several organizations worldwide, Gold Standard guarantees credibility and confidence that generated carbon credits contribute to the fight against climate change.

Thus, WWF Peru compensates not only for CO2 emissions, which are a result of the development of its conservation activities –usually plane trips–, but also supports an important project of clean energy generation in the province of Jiangshu, in China. Here, electricity is generated through gas capture coming from organic matter, particularly from methane (CH4), one of the main and most pollutant greenhouse gases which is 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide. Projections indicate that, through this innovative technology of clean energy generation, approximately 117.477 annual tons of greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced.

"This initiative is part of our action plan in search for greenhouse gas reduction. Being coherent with our mission as an organization means knowing our ecological footprint and reducing it”, said Lozano.