Offsetting with Treecreds
Treecreds believe that carbon offsetting plays an important role in ameliorating and reducing climate change. So once our emissions reduction strategies have been presented and energy efficiency recommendations implemented, Treecreds can assist with offsetting primary emissions that cannot be further reduced.
Treecreds is a support, management, advocacy and promotional agency for Avoided Deforestation and associated projects around the world. All transactions are aimed at 'retiring' carbon credits and keeping carbon-dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Informed by leading environmentalists, Treecreds support avoided deforestation projects because such projects will help fight climate change at a low cost while improving living standards for some of the world's poorest people, as well as safeguarding biodiversity, and preserving other ecosystem services.
Treecreds avoided deforestation offsets are currently sourced from the 'Minding the Carbon Store' project. This project was approved and verified under the Australian Government's Greenhouse Friendly Initiative and saved 12,000 hectares of forest and woodland in Queensland from clearing for the next 120 years.
It is important to differentiate Treecreds avoided deforestation offsets (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, REDDS) from forestry offsets derived from treeplanting, whose carbon abatement, or uptake, takes place over a period of years in the future. Avoided Deforestation provides an alternative income to clearing and logging and preserves forest that would be destroyed without this mechanism. Only the embodied carbon in the trees is calculated, so there is the additional (uncounted) value of the trees continuing to 'soak up' carbon emissions as well as the protection of biodiversity.
