CARBON OFFSETTING
THE CARBON OFFSET JOURNEY
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STEP 1
CHARTER BOOKING
When booking your next flight(s), if you wish to offset your carbon emissions, let your ACS account manager know, and they will add 0.5% to your charter price. You will confirm this with a signature on the booking request form. -
STEP 2
YOUR INVOICE
You will see the 0.5% charge as a separate line item on your invoice. This will be listed as ‘Carbon Offsetting Contribution’. -
STEP 3
OFFSET INVESTMENT
Your offset investment is not used immediately to purchase carbon credits. Instead, it goes into an offset fund. -
STEP 4
EMISSIONS ESTIMATE
Once a quarter, ACS goes through a reconciliation process of estimating the carbon emissions of all flights that have been offset, matching this to the customer funds attributed to offsetting. -
STEP 5
PURCHASING CARBON CREDITS
This money is then used to purchase carbon credits, via the CTX exchange, which are then immediately retired. Our objective is to offset more emissions than have been produced. -
STEP 6
ANNOUNCING PROJECTS
ACS will communicate to its customers that have chosen to offset which projects were invested into.
PROJECTS WE ARE INVESTING IN
HESTIAN STOVES
Reducing greenhouse gas emisssions by burning less wood
As Africa’s population is growing, forests are being cleared for human settlement and wood is being harvested faster than it is being replanted. Hestian’s improved cook stoves and fuel efficiency projects in Southern Africa directly reduce wood usage and indoor cooking smoke, which in turn slows deforestation and lowers household air pollution.
Hestian’s efforts have resulted in over 566,658 homes using improved cook stoves and institutions using 1,239 fixed institutional stoves which has helped create over 2,000 jobs.
WIND INDONESIA
Affordable renewable energy
UPC provide wind turbines that create clean energy, without releasing harmful emissions into the environment. One example of this is the 75 MW Sidrap Wind Farm project, located in the Sidrap region, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The project is Indonesia’s first utility scale wind farm and began providing power to the Southern Sulawesi PLN grid in March 2018. The project uses 30 Gamesa 2.5 MW turbines.
The Sidrap Project is in a location with strong winds as well as a supportive local community. Numerous jobs in both project development and construction have been created with the majority being filled by the local citizens from the region.
CARBON NEUTRAL
ACS has been carbon neutral since 2007 and work with Natural Capital Partners (NCP) supporting projects around the world. Our internal Environment Team, which includes senior directors, is always looking for ways to improve our Environment Management System.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT IS CARBON OFFSETTING?
Taking positive action to compensate for your carbon footprint by investing in sustainable projects that reduce total C0² emissions. It’s about rebalancing things in favour of our atmosphere.
HOW DOES IT WORK
To offset your carbon emissions, you need to invest into a carbon offset scheme by buying something called a carbon credit.
WHAT IS A CARBON CREDIT?
A carbon credit is equal to 1 tonne of carbon dioxide emission. Carbon offset schemes sell carbon credits in order to fund their development.
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING CUSTOMERS?
To offset the carbon emitted from your flight, we charge you a fee equivalent to 0.5% of your charter price, which we invest into buying carbon credits from carbon offset schemes.
WHAT CARBON OFFSETT SCHEMES DO WE INVEST IN?
We only invest in projects certified by the United Nations and Gold Standard. So all credits purchased are genuine and benefiting a climate project.
ARE WE MAKING A PROFIT ON YOUR CARBON OFFSET?
No. Not now and never. When you choose to offset your flight, we invest every penny of your money into carbon credits. We do not take a commission or charge a margin.
WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF CO²?
Over time, burning fossil fuels and deforestation have increased the levels of CO² in the atmosphere to levels the earth can’t absorb. The ACS offset programme invests into projects designed to reduce the amount of CO² in the atmosphere
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