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A socially just & sustainable world
In collaboration with the private sector and civil organisations we work on the business strategies and markets for the future.
A socially just and sustainable world
In collaboration with the private sector and civil organisations we work on the business strategies and markets for the future.
Below you can find our ways of how we aim to balance people, planet, profit and purpose for your organisation:
SERVICES
Towards a carbon neutral corporate footprint
Your business operations CO2 neutral
Calculating your corporate carbon footprint is a requirement to develop a climate action strategy for reducing your carbon footprint. We are officially recognised as “mileubarometer advisors”, a tool to make an inventory and monitor your company's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For one, it shows your carbon emissions and carbon hotspots within your organisation and provides you with tools and targets to begin reducing your climate impact.
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
A life Cycle Analysis of your product or service.
Our LCA team can also conduct a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for a specific product or service. A LCA presents a detailed insight into the environmental impact of the production of your product throughout the entire product chain. This allows you to increase the sustainability of the entire product and supply chain in relation to raw materials and inputs used to make the product.
Towards a carbon neutral corporate footprint
Your business operations CO2 neutral
Calculating your corporate carbon footprint is a requirement to develop a climate action strategy for reducing your carbon footprint. We are officially recognised as “mileubarometer advisors”, a tool to make an inventory and monitor your company's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For one, it shows your carbon emissions and carbon hotspots within your organisation and provides you with tools and targets to begin reducing your climate impact.
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
A life Cycle Analysis of your product or service.
Our LCA team can also conduct a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for a specific product or service. A LCA presents a detailed insight into the environmental impact of the production of your product throughout the entire product chain. This allows you to increase the sustainability of the entire product and supply chain in relation to raw materials and inputs used to make the product.
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GULA GULA FOOD FOREST
Create value through our unique food forest program in Indonesia
In order to move towards carbon neutral production, your business and supply chain operations will most probably also face so-called unavoidable emissions. These emissions cannot not (yet) be avoided and usually consist of fossil fuel use in transportation (cars, trucks, airplanes) and the use of gas for heating. Such unavoidable emissions should be compensated for in carbon off set projects to achieve carbon neutrality.
Afforestation or reforestation projects are the most effective, cost-efficient and demonstrable ways to really reduce GHG emissions from the air. Only trees clean the air by absorbing significant amount of CO2 from the air, while returning oxygen. Depending on your raw materials use or product -use, we can work with you on in setting or off setting.
In-setting combines carbon sequestration targets with sustainable sourcing. As an example, we have integrated cinnamon trees in one of our sites for a spice trading company, which will be able to source cinnamon from the carbon project in the future.
By far the highest climate impact reduction is by reforestation on degraded land. This is what our Gula Gula Food Forest program does. In an ecologically-friendly manner, we combine assisted natural regeneration techniques with planting of (indigenous) trees that provide food and income to the local communities we work with. These mixed tree plantations, also known as agroforests mimic a natural forest, and restore biodiversity at the same time. Our carbon projects support the achievement of various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), of which ending poverty, life on land and climate action are some of the SDG pillars we build our off setting projects on. See our CSR roadmap for details.
CSR
CSR charter: Practice what you preach
As a social enterprise, we would not exist without our passionate and discerning clients and partners who seek to create impact with us for a socially just and sustainable future. For us, it is striking to note, that many NGOs and social enterprises addressing social and environmental concerns, seem far less engaged in corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices within their own organisation. Our thinking is (but hopefully we are wrong), that the mission to create impact in external organisations may be so embedded in the corporate ethos that less attention is paid to self-reflection on their own internal CSR practices.
At CO2 Operate we stand for committing to people and the environment. Our attitude, behaviour and our conduct must reflect our values in concrete terms not only for our clients everywhere in the world, but for our own internal processes and activities as well.
We have therefore not only developed our own CSR charter, but a CSR roadmap at the same time. Our roadmap ambitions build upon 6 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) most relevant to us. This allows us to critically monitor the progress in achieving our own CSR ambitions to aim for continuous improvement in this field.
