Green Options » ecosystemmarketplace http://greenoptions.com/tag/ecosystemmarketplace Posts tagged 'ecosystemmarketplace' Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Case Study Of TetraPak’s Carbon Offsetting Program http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/28/case-study-of-tetrapaks-carbon-offsetting-program/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/28/case-study-of-tetrapaks-carbon-offsetting-program/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:54 +0000 Angelique van Engelen http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/28/case-study-of-tetrapaks-carbon-offsetting-program/ ahimbisibwenormal.jpgMeet Beatrice Ahimbisibwe. She’s a widowed single mother and a school-teacher in Uganda. Plus she creates 5.7 tons worth of carbon offsetting credits annually for TetraPak UK, a company intent on reducing its carbon footprint.

Ahimbisibwe owns a little plot of land on which she grows some of the trees involved in TetraPak’s contract to produce fresh air for all the pollution caused by its production processes. A case study of the carbon sequestration project on EcoSystemMarketplace.com reveals interesting insights into the practices of an emissions offsetting program.

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