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Carbon Offsetting

Carbon Offsetting

Carbon offsetting in India: Bringing Wind Energy to Madhya Pradesh

Background This wind power project is managed by Orange Mamatkheda Wind and located in Madhya Pradesh, a large state in central India. The project consists of 67 wind turbine generators, each producing 1.5 MW of clean electricity through wind power. This project significantly reduced CO2 emissions, with 1.23 million tonnes Read more…

By Georgia Crump, 2 years9 months ago
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Carbon offsetting in Panama: Planting Biodiverse Forests

Background Sharing borders with Costa Rica and Colombia, Panama is a country located in Central America. Panama’s jungles cover approximately 40% of its total land area, and are home to a rich diversity of plants and animals, some of whom are found nowhere else on the planet. One of the Read more…

By Georgia Crump, 2 years9 months ago
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Carbon offsetting in Chad: Solar Cooking for Refugee Families

Background Since the war in Darfur, hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of them women and children, have crossed into Chad, fleeing the ongoing violence. A large proportion live in refugee camps in Eastern Chad, close to the Sudanese border.  In order to collect firewood for cooking, women and children Read more…

By Georgia Crump, 2 years9 months ago
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Carbon offsetting in Brazil: Ceará Renewable Energy Project

Background The Ceará region in Northern Brazil is prone to severe drought and suffers from high levels of poverty. One of the main causes of deforestation is illegal logging, whereby trees are being chopped down to be used as fuel for factories. It is this problem that is tackled by Read more…

By Georgia Crump, 2 years9 months ago

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