Vancity to renew carbon offset purchase relationship with Offsetters

 

August 29, 2011, Vancouver, BC – Two Canadian innovators, Offsetters (a leading carbon management provider) and Vancity (the largest credit union in English-speaking Canada) are, once again, teaming up in the name of a low-carbon future.

Vancity announced that it will continue to offset its carbon footprint with an investment in carbon credits for the 2010 year provided in part by the Vancouver-based Offsetters. In turn, Offsetters will invest in high quality and verified projects, resulting in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The partnership between these two Canadian companies goes back to 2008 when, with the help of Offsetters, Vancity became North America’s first financial institution to achieve carbon neutrality.

“We’re proud to work with Vancity, a true industry leader and an inspiration for other large, forward-thinking organizations,” said Kari Grist, senior vice president marketing and client engagement for Offsetters. “Vancity was instrumental in our own success: when we were just starting up, Vancity provided us with a grant. It feels good that, today, we’ve come full circle, helping Vancity on a green journey all their own.”

Over the years, Offsetters has achieved a number of “firsts”, including being the first official supplier of carbon offsets in the history of the Olympic movement (Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games), the largest initial supplier of carbon offsets to the BC Crown Corporation (Pacific Carbon Trust) and the first Canadian company to co-develop a Gold Standard cookstove project in Africa. Offsetters is also the carbon offset provider to Canada’s first carbon neutral coffee (Salt Spring Coffee Company’s French Roast Nicaragua) and floatplane service (Harbour Air).

“We applaud Vancity on their continued commitment to the environment and to carbon neutrality,” said Grist. “By taking these important steps today, Vancity is, once again, demonstrating that being carbon neutral can be good for business and our communities.”

For more information about Offsetters, visit www.offsetters.ca. 

 

About Offsetters
Offsetters is Canada’s leading carbon management solutions provider, based in Vancouver, BC and founded in 2005. Offsetters helps individuals and companies understand, measure, reduce and offset their carbon emissions while investing in high-quality projects that achieve tangible reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. For more information and a full list of all of Offsetters’ clients and achievements, visit www.offsetters.ca.

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