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Carbon Offsetting

We work with industry experts to calculate our carbon impact

It’s tricky to figure out how much impact a Fleewinter holiday actually has.  It’s an even trickier problem to offset that impact with projects that really work.

We needed some help, first to calculate our impact but also to find legitimate projects that support long term sustainable change.  So, we asked the experts.

We estimate the impact each holiday with Fleewinter has using globally-recognised standards.

We then purchase “carbon credits” from a company that finds legitimate, impactful offsetting projects.   The credits we purchase are distributed between four projects that meet a strict set of ethical and qualitative criteria.

Find out more about the current projects we support below.

Soubre Hydro-Power Plant 

The Soubré Hydro-Power Plant is as of today the biggest hydropower plant of its kind in Ivory Coast. It is located upstream around the natural falls of the Sassandra River.

The project allows the country to increase its electric power by 10%, a momentum that will continue with the construction soon of an additional plant, to be further enabled by two other planned plants.

The project enables annual emissions reductions of 607,720 tCO2e.

The Pacajai REDD+

This project is in the Brazilian state of Para, a fast-changing region characterized by forests rich in valuable timber species.

Challenges targeted by the project include illegal logging, unclear land tenure laws, widespread land speculation, overall weak law enforcement and severe poverty. The project aims to prevent unplanned deforestation for 123,000 hectares of native Amazonian Forest, now managed by the local villagers.

Along with the enhanced environmental impact, project activities improve the standard of living of the population through direct investments in health, education, infrastructure, and the empowerment of vulnerable groups. Since the project started in 2008, it has been successful in identifying and removing illegal activities such as logging, squatting and attempts to create pastures.

The area is patrolled on a regular basis by guardians that continuously travel around the Project Boundary, performing monitoring and enforcement. Monitoring reports are compiled and made available to the validation team. To improve the coverage and identification of illegal activities and invasion attempts, the project has conducted a thorough census both within the Project’s Boundary and beyond, to the potential Leakage Belt (the area which could suffer from displaced illegal activity).

The objective of this project is to avoid the emission of 9,582,742 tonnes of CO2 for a period of 40 years.

Sesa Waste Heat Recovery –

Sesa Goa Ltd is India’s largest exporter of iron ore and is making the production line greener through this project.

The Sesa Waste Heat Recovery Based Power Generation Project recovers the heat content from coke oven flue gas in two waste heat recovery boilers for generation of steam. The surplus blast furnace gas is combusted in two external combustion chambers and the flue gas is introduced into the same waste heat recovery boilers for heat recovery and subsequent generation of steam. The steam is fed to a steam-turbo generator set for generation of power.

A portion of the electrical energy generated is supplied back to Sesa Goa Ltd, catering to their electrical energy requirement.

The surplus electrical energy is exported to Western Regional Grid. Average annual emission reduction from this project equates to 1.1m tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Akocak Hydroelectric Power –

AKOCAK is a run-of-river type hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) project located on Karadere River, in Trabzon province, in the East Black Sea region of Turkey. This region is known to have the highest precipitation in the country.

The purpose of the project is to generate energy from the running waters of Karadere River for a period of 49 years, through the Turkish licensing Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA).

The annual estimated electrical energy generation is 257.440 GWh, with corresponding emission reduction at about 144,681 tCO2e per year.

The project activity consists of 2 vertical axis Pelton turbines, each with 40.5 MWe capacity and making the total installed capacity of 81 Mwh.

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