Making Your Event Carbon Neutral

The Foundation encourages the running of your conference, trade show or annual meeting as "carbon neutral". By this we mean that the amount of carbon generated (through travel, heating, lights etc.) be offset through the planting of trees. The Foundation can assist your group in the calculation of carbon expenditure as well as calculating the amount of trees required to offset this amount of carbon.

The Tree Canada Foundation will:

• do the carbon calculation estimate
• provide an estimate of the number of trees to plant to absorb the carbon over 1, 10, 20 or 80 years
• arrange the site selection, landowner contact, seedling transportation, tree seedling purchase, site preparation, planting, maintenance and survival assessments
• guarantee survival to be 70% to Year 5 of the planting by refill planting if necessary

The Coalition-SGSL, by making the Workshop a Carbon Neutral Event, will permit the planting of 230 trees in the Spring of 2008. This will, within an twenty year period, result in the potential sequestration of 7.69 tonnes of carbon produced through this event.