After avoiding and reducing our emissions as far as possible we wanted to go a step further and positively compensate the environment for the unavoidable CO₂ that any business operation generates. After much research we opted for woodland carbon capture – at home in the UK where the schemes would be sustainable and monitored, and the benefits reaped locally.

Our woodland creation partners are Forest Carbon Ltd, responsible for the planting of 2 million trees in the past 4 years for clients such as Marks & Spencer, Stagecoach, Mears Group, and The Green Insurance Company.

Working with Defra, Forestry Commission and other experts they have participated in the design and testing of the UK's first 'best practice' for carbon woodland schemes, the Woodland Carbon Code, which comes into effect early 2011.

Forest Carbon schemes follow all Kyoto carbon forestry principles and UK forestry and biodiversity best practice and their carbon calculation methodology is academically double peer-reviewed and extremely conservative (so in reality there's always much more carbon captured than was anticipated).