BVCO helps you to:
1.  calculate your carbon footprint
2.  reduce your carbon footprint
3. compensate your carbon footprint in one of BVCO’s community projects

BVCO helps others by:
1. developing and running small scale community energy projects
2. accessing finance for sustainable development

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You can help our projects by offseting your business, lifestyle, air travel or other travel below:

Oxford Expedition Offsets

Oxford University Climate Change & Caving Expedition to Chile Offsets entire journey for all members with BVCO

The Oxford University Madre de Dios Speleo, Chile 2008 expedition took place over 5 weeks in March and April this year.  The 6 expedition members, headed up by Chris Day of the Earth Sciences department, Oxford University, travelled to Chile for climate change research purposes.

The group travelled from the UK by plane each emitting 1.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide for each leg of the journey.  They then sailed over 1000km by ferry to the caves contributing to 0.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide each; along with the reconnaissance trip this amounted to a carbon footprint of 23 tonnes of carbon dioxide.  The expedition’s footprint has been fully offset through BVCO and the South Africa fuel efficient and solar stove programme. Read more here

Our News - March 2008

Industry watchdog Which? commends Blue Ventures’ Carbon Offset - Thursday 20th March 2008

Blue Ventures’ innovative non-profit carbon offsetting programme has been highly rated by companies watchdog Which? in its new report on the UK carbon offsetting industry. 

The report, which looks at the rapidly-growing carbon offsetting market and regulations governing the industry, compares 13 offset providers across UK, highlighting the often bewildering confusion that consumers face when choosing a carbon offsetting option.  Blue Ventures Carbon Offset (BVCO) scored 5 out of 5 for the quality of project details and information provided, and 4 out of 5 for ease of use of its website.  See the report here.

Our Difference

BVCO makes sure that its projects are permanent, independent, additional and sustainable. This means that our projects are secure and would not exist without BVCO's investment.

In addition, our projects give practical benefits to the local communities that we support, alongside reducing carbon burning. We have worked with these communities since 2003 and continue to help enhance their quality of life through our projects.

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Our Projects

Energy Efficiency in Cooking: Distributing fuel efficient stoves to villages and providing a sustainable infrastructure for the continued local production and development of these stoves.

Mangrove protection: Mangroves are essential carbon stores. The SW coast of Madagascar has extensive reserves, many of which are being threatened with development. Protecting these areas can prevent carbon release that would otherwise occur.