KJ Tait 2023 Carbon Reduction

KJ Tait 2023 Carbon Reduction Closing the performance gap in buildings

2023 Carbon Reduction

KJ Tait: Carbon Neutral Company For the year 2023, we provided all our consumption and travel emissions data to Planet Mark for verification. This established that our location based carbon emissions for the year was 68.6tCO2.

To offset these emissions, we have invested in three diverse schemes via Gold Standard to achieve Carbon Neutrality for 2023. The projects are across three distinct schemes: community based energy efficiency, land activities & nature based solutions and renewables.

These themes were chosen as they represent areas that we are involved with in our day to day work, the individual projects were chosen by our staff.

We take great pride in supporting these projects and remain hopeful that our contribution to them can generate a positive difference. Our commitment to environmental sustainability and the support of these initiatives underlines our ambition of making a meaningful impact within our community and beyond.

Through Planet Mark certification, we have committed to a Science Based Target in reducing our carbon emissions year on year by 5%.

2023 Carbon Reduction

By rehabilitating and installing critical water infrastructure within communities and committing to ensure that it is maintained and tested for water quality over the project lifetime, the project reduces the risk of water borne illnesses and the need to boil water for purification, which exposes households to hazardous air pollution. This saves thousands of tonnes of firewood per year and reduces CO2 emissions. By implementing a WASH campaign and training, the project also improves hygiene and sanitation practices within the communities.

As the burden for collecting water and firewood for purification falls disproportionately on women and children, by installing and rehabilitating boreholes the project reduces the poverty of women and children and allows them to spend the time saved on other activities.

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Provision of safe clean water, especially in rural areas Positively impacts thousands of people in the project area, especially women and children Reduction of firewood Reduced time spent on collecting wood and water Reduction in the risk of waterborne illness

Mozambique Safe Water Project Community Based Energy Efficiency 23tCO2 offset £310 payment

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BaumInvest Mixed Reforestation in Costa Rica Land use activities and Nature based solutions 23tCO2 offset £1,002 payment

The reforestation project of BaumInvest in Costa Rica combines premium quality standards of a recognised forest carbon offset project with multiple ecological and socio-economic benefits for local communities and the environment.

BaumInvest has established a remarkable ecologically and socially sound reforestation project with predominantly native tree species in Costa Rica. Since the start of the project in 2007, an area of 2,115ha of pastureland, previously used for extensive cattle ranching, has been under sustainable management. 1,280ha have been successively reforested in near natural mixed forest plantations with mainly native tree species. In total, more than one million trees were planted using a variety of 17 different tree species. The plantations are managed as a continuous forest cover. Our reforestation model comprises a mixture of pioneer trees, medium growth and slow growth, shadow trees.

The reforestation farms of BaumInvest are spread between five sites in the Central North of Costa Rica. About 25% of the total project area consist of remaining old-growth and secondary forest and wetlands, some of them classified and managed as high conservation value forests (HCVF) according to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). These areas serve as habitat and biological corridors for many rare and endangered wildlife species of the diminishing Atlantic lowland rainforests in Central America, in particular the project area La Virgen located in close vicinity of the Braulio Carrillo National Park.

By constantly monitoring biodiversity, this project has discovered that 70 new species of amphibians and reptiles have resettled on its land and by using Dipteryx panamensis as one of the main tree species planted, the project contributes specifically to the survival of this threatened tree species of Costa Rica.

Furthermore, the existence of the project, with people working in these remote areas and promoting environmental education, helps to reduce illegal logging, poaching and animal trading. Finally, the reforestation of fallow and pastureland contributes to protect water catchment areas and improves water quality.

This project is one of the first afforestation/reforestation projects in the world which gained Gold Standard Certification after the launch of the new Gold Standard Land Use and Forests in November 2013.

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Solar Lighting Project in Zambia Renewables 23tCO2 offset £820 payment

This project delivers solar lights to Zambian families living without electricity. This gives them truly affordable, clean lighting for the first time and has life changing impacts.

Currently these households rely on dim and sooty kerosene lamps or candles for lighting. This project replaces these polluting lamps with ultra-affordable solar lights.

This exchange alleviates poverty, promotes education, and safeguards the health of families. Crucially, this substitution decreases dependency on fossil fuels, eliminating ongoing fuel costs for low-income households and helping to address climate change.

The project has distributed over 600,000 lights in Zambia since 2021. The carbon revenue generated enables the lights to be sold to rural families at a 50-70% discount on their retail value. This carbon subsidy removes the key barrier to mass adoption of clean technology by those who need it most: affordability.

The lights distributed are multifunctional: they are portable and can be used indoors as desk lamps or hung on the wall, as well as outdoors as a head torch. By distributing the solar lights through schools and other community centres, they enable children to read and study at night with a bright, clean and safe light.

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