BP launches scheme to offset carbon emissions from motoring
Wed 23 August 2006
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The oil giant, BP, has launched a carbon offset scheme to enable UK drivers to offset the CO2 emissions caused by their driving.
According to BP, an average car driven 10,000 miles in a year, causes emissions of about four tonnes of CO2. To neutralise this amount of carbon emissions will cost around £20 a year.
Carbon offsetting has been available for some years through a number of - mainly web-based - initiatives enabling people to offset the climate impacts of their travel and other energy uses.
BP says that the scheme has been developed in consultation with NGOs and will be advised and monitored by an independent panel chaired by Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future.
BP's scheme will be not-for-profit and the company says that it will meet all ongoing running costs as well as making a direct contribution to 'targetneutral' when motorists who are signed up to the scheme register and use their Nectar Card when they buy fuel at a BP forecourt.
The money generated by targetneutral goes to a portfolio of CO2 reduction projects including alternative and renewable energy.
BP's offset scheme follows announcements of similar projects by carmakers including Honda and Land Rover.
Related Links
BP - 'target neutral' website
EDIE news report
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