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GVI is Climate Friendly

GVI is passionate about reducing the effects of climate change. As well as offsetting our own carbon emissions through Climate Care and taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint, we encourage everyone to do the same to offset what remains.

What are GVI doing to reduce their carbon footprint?

GVI programmes that involve marine conservation, wildlife conservation, wildlife research and community development often work to rectify damage done to the environment by humans. We therefore recognise the link between human lifestyle and the environment. By encouraging everyone to engage with climate change, GVI works towards the sustainable development of the environment and the future of our planet. So much of what we do involves travelling, so we work with Climate Care to offset our flight CO2 emissions.

On top of our commitment to Climate Care, many GVI activities directly affect the environment, with examples including:

High Efficiency Stoves

GVI runs projects in Latin America producing low emission stoves. These not only directly reduce the release of CO2 and reduce wood use, they also save lives by reducing indoor air pollution, which each year is responsible for 1.6 million deaths (that is one death every 20 seconds).

Carbon Sequestering

Across Latin America GVI are working to replace and sustainably manage forests that have been cut down due to the high demand for wood fuel.

Global Eden Project

Through this scheme the GVI Charitable Trust aim to preserve pristine environments before they are lost and help local communities to manage them for profit through collaborative ecotourism projects. Tied in with this will be climate change education and monitoring centres, to help both locals and tourists understand and reduce their effects on the environment.

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