Changing with less emissions
We all contribute to global warming producing carbon dioxide (CO2), methane gas and nitrous dioxide. In particular, as we well know, the emissions of CO2 are caused by almost everything we do, such as cooking, using our laptop, driving to work, flying to a symposium.
Starting just from the occasion given by this conference we have the opportunity to fight global warming by neutralizing that part of CO2 emissions coming from the event that will take to Torino over 300 researchers, most of them from foreign countries.
In fact, we believe that facing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of this temporary event will be the first minimum objective of the Changing the Change conference, hoping to give a positive signal for a concrete containment of emissions.
Of course it has to be part of a multilevel strategy to tackle climate change proactively and it will regard many matters related to the location of the conference: from the field of the energy consumption to the one of the energy efficiency of the buildings. Anyway the organizers are working at a domestic project in order to offset our emissions through the carbon capacity capture of trees. In collaboration with AzzeroCO2, an energy service company founded in 2004 by Legambiente, Ambiente Italia and Kyoto Club they developed a project to naturally absorbe CO2 in a specific area, chosen among different national and international offsetting projects submitted by the company.
The site is a river park (Parco del Po e dell’Orba) located in the North-West of Italy close to the city of Turin where 475 local species of trees will be planted in order to counterbalance 371 tons of carbon needed for all the activities of the conference.
This is part of a larger forestry project launched by AzzeroCo2 in collaboration with the Federation of the Italian national and regional parks and with Kyoto Club. More than 10 ha will be planted in this area generating more than 500,000 t of CO2 emissions reductions in the next years. This will be monitored and verified by a certification company.
Azam Khan says, on February 7th, 2008 at 3:13 am: