Carbon Offsets - Clean Water Africa

Clean water is an essential need of life on earth. Unfortunately for many access to clean water is a daily struggle. For many rural communities in Africa finding clean water is a major family struggle.

The burden of collecting cleaner water often falls unfairly to women and children, who will walk long distances daily to collect from the closest water resourceful.

Often the water isn’t even safe to drink and may be polluted or contain harmful bacteria. It must therefore be boiled to purify it.

Borehole Rehabilitation for Clean Water

This clean water project works with local communities to identify and restore boreholes in Uganda. This provides a more local and safer water resource to communities and households.  This provides safe water to people and communities that are the most in need.

Benefits of Clean Water Carbon Credits

Borehole rehabilitation for clean water provides reduced carbon emissions, from the reduced need to boil water for purification. These projects also have many other benefits.

Wider benefits include:

• Improving livelihoods of women and children, who are unfairly disadvantaged by lack of access to clean water
  • Women and girls are still responsible for water collection in 80% of households without water access on premises
• Up to 6 hours per day is saved, which can now be spent on education, agriculture, and other tasks
  • This equates to around 275 working days per annum (assuming a working week of 40 hours per week)
  • This is 55 working weeks of saved time per year
• Reduced consumption of firewood or cooking fuel to boil water for purification
• Time saving, due to less time spent collecting water or fuel (to boil and purify)
• Reduced deforestation
• Improved water security
  • Half of the world’s population is already experiencing severe water scarcity at least one month a year

Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

Clean water carbon credits are often aligned with the UN Sustainable Development goals:

• UN SDG 1 – No poverty
• UN SDG 3 – Good health and well-being
• UN SDG 6 – Clean water and sanitation
• UN SDG 13 – Climate action

Clean Water – Gold Standard and Verified Carbon Standard Credits

Clean water carbon credits are available to both the Gold Standard and Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). These carbon offset schemes ensure that CO2 credits are:

• Transparent
• Credible
• Verifiable
• Additional

This provides a high level of assurance and credibility to the carbon offsets. This is essential for claims of carbon reduction and is an important basis for Net Zero Carbon or carbon neutrality.

Where to Buy Carbon Offsets

Circular Ecology can provide carbon offsets to businesses, using carbon credits from Gold Standard, Verified Carbon Standard or Plan Vivo. We have carbon offset registry accounts for all three of those well respected offset certification schemes. For volumes over 500 tCO2e, please contact us at Circular Ecology.

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Further Information

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