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Carbon Offsetting and Alive Network

Carbon offsetting is a responsible way to neutralise the carbon emissions we cannot avoid creating when traveling. Alive Network offsets it's own Carbon Emissions through the Carbon Passport program, www.carbonpassport.com.

We also ask that our artists volunteer to offset the CO2 travel emissions associated with Alive Network gigs. The artists who volunteer to take part if this scheme demonstrate their willingness to take responsibility for their carbon emissions and act with a ‘green conscience’.

Although Alive Network has agreed to pay to offset the emissions of those artists who do not volunteer in the scheme, we feel that the volunteers deserve their due credit and so they are showcased on this page.

If it’s important that the entertainment you book has green credentials, please choose one of the participating artists from the list below.

Artists participating in our Carbon Offsetting Program

How does Carbon Offsetting Work?

Offsetting is the process of seeking a matching carbon dioxide reduction to balance out your emissions. For example, if you were flying with your family of four to Orlando in Florida from the UK this would generate nearly 6.5 tonnes of CO2. To offset this trip, you would need to purchase 6.5 tonnes of carbon credits which would then be invested into emission reduction projects in developing countries.

Why should we offset CO2 emmissions?
Climate change is now internationally recognised as the single greatest challenge facing the Earth. After many years of being treated as a marginal issue most people now recognise that climate change is a real phenomenon, that the impact of carbon emissions is already being felt and that drastic action to curb carbon emissions is required to prevent irreversible and catastrophic damage to our environment and ecosystems.

Where and how does Alive Network offset CO2 it's emissions?
We purchase Certified Emission Reductions through the Carbon Passport Service.

As well as calculating and offsetting emissions associated with the running of our offices and staff travel, we also calulate the mileage involved in every event we book. Many artists volunteer to pay their own offsets and Alive Network has agreed to pay the offsets due from those who will not volunteer. Offset fees are used to purchase Certified Emission Reductions from the Carbon Passport Service. Alive Network profits in no way from the scheme.

What is the Carbon Passport Service?
Carbon Passport is one of the first companies to have had offsets approved under the government's Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting (QAS). They provide high quality offsets using only UN approved Certified Emission Reductions (CERs). This gives the assurance that real verifiable emission reductions are actually taking place.

Carbon Passport give complete assurance that offsets will:

• Be sourced from carbon reduction projects that achieve a carbon reduction in a sensible timeframe
• Only come from projects that would not have gone ahead without income from the sale of carbon offsets
• Reduce the same quantity of CO2 emissions for which we have purchased the offset
• Result in a permanent CO2 emissions reduction
• Not be re-sold to anybody else
• Be approved as Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under mechanisms that have been developed to support the Kyoto Protocol
• The projects that produce these offsets have gone through most stringent examination and, having passed, produce a stream of carbon credits which are recognised internationally as a means of meeting greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets.

What sort of offsetting projects do carbon credits fund?
There are a number of approved project types which reduce carbon emissions. Examples include:

• Renewable energy
• Energy efficiency
• Destruction of highly concentrated greenhouse gases
• Destruction of methane from landfill sites.

These projects generally are sited in developing countries and the incentives provided by carbon credits are often vital to the choice between low or high CO2 investments in regions where energy is needed to improve the basic quality of life and the developed world’s environmental standards are a luxury they can’t afford.