GREEN MEETINGS RESOURCE PAGE
The Global Humanitarian Forum’s Annual Meeting 2008 is a green meeting and won’t be leaving any carbon footprint.
We adhered to some of the following basic green guidelines:
> Offsetting our sponsored guests’ travel. We have also offered to offset the travel of our other guests.
> Using local food (instead of exotic) in the conference catering. Where possible, organic ingredients have been used.
> Hiring local musicians and organisational teams.
> Employing energy-saving devices in all our technical equipment.
> Usage of Forest Stewardship Council paper and minimising quantities of paper printed out.
> Utilising entirely recyclable badges and collection of all paper at conference areas for recycling.
> Encouraging the use of public transport and shuttles to minimise car pollution and rationalising use of our own shuttles and coaches.
Where we are unable to minimise our environmental impact, we will offset any additional impact. For this purpose, the Global Humanitarian Forum is sponsoring an agroforestry project in Niger to minimise environmental degradation, improve local food security and make a contribution towards carbon sequestration
Geneva, Global Humanitarian Forum 2008, our former client for two forums in 2008 and 2009.
other interesting links:
BlueGreen Meetings Memo check their sample doc from the Fondation Océans Bleus
Global Humanitarian Forum Climate Justice Campaign in Davos 2009.
Good Planet.org
Action Carbone: Here’s their latest press release with the contacts:
Julien BEAUCHESNE – +33 (0)1 48 42 76 04 – julien@actioncarbone.org
Two projects validated by Gold Standard
Few days before the start of the Copenhagen talks on Climate Change, Action
Carbone, a GoodPlanet Foundation program, is proud to announce the successful
completion of the Gold Standard validation (premium label on the carbon market)
for two of our voluntary carbon offsetting projects.
The two projects validated by the Gold Standard are :
1) Biogas plant construction and vermi-compost production in India
This project, carried-out by the Indian NGO, SKG Sangha, is to install biogas plants and
to produce vermi-compost in rural areas of Karnataka State. The project aims to reduce
deforestation in India with biogas produced with animal wastes and to improve the
living conditions of beneficiary families through the production and sale of vermicompost.
2) Biogas plant construction in China
This project, carried out by the French NGO Initiative Development allows Guizhou
province’s inhabitants, to access a free and renewable energy source to cover their
lighting and cooking needs. It also participates in improving hygiene and sanitation in
those rural areas.
The Gold Standard validation is a reward for the initiative of Action Carbone program to
fund and support renewable energies projects with high environmental values,
economic benefits and social partnership with NGOs.
Action Carbone is the first NGO to be validated by the Gold Standard on biogas
micro-scale project in the voluntary carbon market
Action Carbone thanks all of its partners for their constant support especially the NGOs
in the field whose sustainable development projects have been contributing to fight
climate change while at the same time improving living conditions for rural
communities in developing countries.
Press Release
4th December 2009
Press contact :
Julien BEAUCHESNE – +33 (0)1 48 42 76 04 – julien@actioncarbone.org
GoodPlanet and Action Carbone’s involvement in
Copenhagen
During the Climate Change summit, GoodPlanet foundation will host an environmental
film festival at the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen with very special guests such as
Nicolas Hulot, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri, Wangari Maathai, and of course Yann Arthus-
Bertrand, GoodPlanet foundation’s president.
Our film festival will be a meeting point for exchanges and debates between the
audience, the NGOs and our special guests. The film festival’s program and main events
along with the official debates, comments and news from the UN Climate Change
summit in Copenhagen will be relayed on our website on www.goodplanet.org
Action Carbone program will also participate in three main events of the Climate
Change summit:
1) Side event French Development Agency, GERES and Action Carbone
Date and place: Monday December 7th, at 6.00 pm at European pavilion of the Bella
Center, Schuman Room.
Topic: Two success stories, combining local communities development and climate
change mitigation through innovative financing.
Industrial / large-scale projects are often the only ones funded under the CDM. As nonfor
profit organization, GoodPlanet and GERES intent to “fill the gap”. This side event
will focus on the models used by these two organizations that generate various
economic and social impacts tackling both poverty and climate change through carbon
finance.
2) CIFOR Forest day : Joint booth Planet Action and Action Carbone
Date and place: Sunday December 13th, from 9,30 am at Radisson BLU Falconer Hotel &
Conference Center.
Topic: Forest Day 3 will be hosted by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, the
Government of Denmark, and CIFOR. It will build on the success of Forest Days 1 and 2,
which helped to place forests high on the global agenda for climate change. It will
bring together stakeholders from the forest and climate change communities to look
beyond Copenhagen, at the issues related to implementation of the Copenhagen
outcomes.
3) ITC exhibition, Joint presentation WWF – Carnegie Institute- Action Carbone
Date and place: Monday December 14th, afternoon at ITC Kiosk in the Bella Center.
Topic: The exhibition will concern the current ICT-related projects undertaken by
governments, United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental
organizations and media organizations on their own or with private
sector partners. In this context, Action Carbone will make a presentation of the Holistic
Conservation Programme for Forests in Madagascar implemented along with WWF,
and will stress the role of technology for the monitoring of the project with a special
focus on Lidar Technology.
Press Release
4th December 2009
Reforestation compensation by Compensation carbone with a google map of projects
from The Global Summit on Social Responsibility Sponsored by: ASAE & The Center Social Responsibility Initiative:
CSR Statement
Road to Copenhagen
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