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First Counsel is in the growth business. We provide our clients with the best talent to help ensure sustained growth and success. We provide our candidates with the best opportunities to develop their careers. But there is another dimension. Every time we place a candidate within a client's organisation, we invest in the tending and growth of 20 trees in Africa and India. To date, we have funded the growth of more than 12,000 trees, equivalent to nearly 24 acres or 14 Wembley Stadia.
In the process, we offset 1,350 tonnes of carbon emissions, 12 times the carbon footprint of First Counsel. Our partners in this programme are Carbon Clear, a carbon management organisation which invests in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the air by replacing polluting technologies with cleaner ones and supporting community tree planting in developing countries. Carbon Clear's projects are in developing countries and are carefully screened to ensure they also improve local people's wellbeing. The organisation's projects work on an holistic socio-economic level, with carbon credits seen as an enabler for other social benefits, rather than an end in itself. These include more sustainable farming conditions and improved health and standards of living.
For 10 years, The International Small Group & Tree Planting Programme (TIST) has helped small groups of subsistence farmers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and India to reverse the devastating effect of deforestation, drought and famine. TIST provides a communication and administrative structure that addresses education, health (including HIV/AIDS) and nutrition needs for its members. Since 2002, the small groups organised and funded by TIST have planted over 500,000 trees in India and 700,000 in Tanzania.
We at First Counsel are also working to reduce our own direct carbon footprint year by year. The ways in which we are seeking to do this include the more careful use of energy, achieving a reduction in our consumption of paper (and therefore production of waste), the sourcing of paper products from sustainable forests, and the more effective recycling of our waste.
This is all part of our aim to be a responsible, carbon neutral business well into the future. We hope that in some small and sustainable way we can help reduce the impact of carbon on global climate change and, ultimately, on our world.
Please visit www.carbon-clear.com
10:10 aims to unite people and businesses in Britain in order to achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010. We have recently signed up to the 10:10 initiative and are committed to reducing our carbon emissions over the next year. So far almost 50,000 individuals and 1600 companies have signed up to the scheme. Please click here to visit their website if you would like to find out more.
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First Counsel is a carbon neutral companyFirst Counsel is in the growth business. We provide our clients with the best talent to help ensure sustained growth and success. We provide our candidates with the best opportunities to develop their careers. But there is another dimension. Every time we place a candidate within a client's organisation, we invest in the tending and growth of 20 trees in Africa and India. To date, we have funded the growth of more than 12,000 trees, equivalent to nearly 24 acres or 14 Wembley Stadia.
In the process, we offset 1,350 tonnes of carbon emissions, 12 times the carbon footprint of First Counsel. Our partners in this programme are Carbon Clear, a carbon management organisation which invests in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the air by replacing polluting technologies with cleaner ones and supporting community tree planting in developing countries. Carbon Clear's projects are in developing countries and are carefully screened to ensure they also improve local people's wellbeing. The organisation's projects work on an holistic socio-economic level, with carbon credits seen as an enabler for other social benefits, rather than an end in itself. These include more sustainable farming conditions and improved health and standards of living.
For 10 years, The International Small Group & Tree Planting Programme (TIST) has helped small groups of subsistence farmers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and India to reverse the devastating effect of deforestation, drought and famine. TIST provides a communication and administrative structure that addresses education, health (including HIV/AIDS) and nutrition needs for its members. Since 2002, the small groups organised and funded by TIST have planted over 500,000 trees in India and 700,000 in Tanzania.
We at First Counsel are also working to reduce our own direct carbon footprint year by year. The ways in which we are seeking to do this include the more careful use of energy, achieving a reduction in our consumption of paper (and therefore production of waste), the sourcing of paper products from sustainable forests, and the more effective recycling of our waste.
This is all part of our aim to be a responsible, carbon neutral business well into the future. We hope that in some small and sustainable way we can help reduce the impact of carbon on global climate change and, ultimately, on our world.
Please visit www.carbon-clear.com
10:10
10:10 aims to unite people and businesses in Britain in order to achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010. We have recently signed up to the 10:10 initiative and are committed to reducing our carbon emissions over the next year. So far almost 50,000 individuals and 1600 companies have signed up to the scheme. Please click here to visit their website if you would like to find out more.