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Justin Rose visits Carbon Offsetting Project
December 15, 2008 – Tradition are pleased to announce that Justin Rose, will today be visiting a project in South Africa which will be offsetting his carbon emissions.
To congratulate Justin on winning the European Order of Merit in 2007, Tradition, as his sponsor pledged to offset all carbon emissions generated by Justin and his team's professional travel for 2008. Carbon emissions are offset by purchasing CERs (Certified Emissions Reductions) from a specifically sourced project in Stutterheim, near East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The project involves the construction of a factory that will produce bio mass bricks (clean burning bricks) intended to replace traditional coal in local industries and public institutions. The bricks will be manufactured using wood-chip waste, which would otherwise rot and emit methane gas into the atmosphere. Replacing traditional coal in local industries will also eliminate the burning of fossil fuels. In addition, the factory will create jobs and self-employment opportunities for 20 families, in an area where communities suffer from an 80% unemployment rate. The project will be registered with the United Nations under the Kyoto Protocol to ensure that the emissions reductions are of a high international standard.
Amit Oza, Senior Emission Broker at Tradition who helped to source the project says, “We are delighted to have found such a worthwhile project in order to honour our commitment to Justin Rose to offset his carbon emissions for 2008. Justin was keen to use a project in South Africa as this is the country of his birth and we are extremely pleased that we are able to help him in his ongoing commitment to the environment and wish him every success for 2009.”
