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You’ll now be able to plant trees closer to home. Starting with Australia, USA and UK you can now add local reforestation to your subscription.
Carbon pollution is a global problem. It doesn’t matter where a greenhouse gas was removed or prevented from entering the atmosphere &#8211; our surprisingly thin layer of the air fully mixes <a href="http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap4.pdf">within one year</a>.
The fact that you can do this anywhere in the world will be a saving grace for humanity. Mass reforestation, large scale renewable energy installations, access to engineers, labour, and resources can happen wherever it&#8217;s most efficient.
This is why at Ecologi we don’t offset your footprint through projects that happen on your doorstep. But when it comes to <a href="https://ecologi.com/">planting trees</a>, there are some tasty reasons why you can make an exception:
Passion 
We’re going to take a guess that you’d love for your country to be greener. It’s with great pride that you’ll be able to help restore the beauty of your land where it was once deforested. Of all the millennia of humanity, it’s this generation that is actively repairing the planet&#8217;s natural resources.
Ecological restoration 
The wild and natural world is Ecologi’s great passion beyond carbon reduction. And no doubt it’s yours too. Prioritising natural climate solutions such as reforestation plays a vital role in the balance of our flora and fauna. Your can start to benefit your country directly.

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In 2020, the bushfires ravaged 8.8 millions acres of land in South East Australia. We’re helping restore wildlife corridors for local koalas.
<a href="https://ecologi.com/projects/wildlife-corridors-koalas-australia">View project</a>

New South Wales, Australia

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83% of the beautiful region of Appalachia has been deforested through resource plundering. Unable to restore itself, we’ll give it a helping hand.
<a href="/projects/rewilding-the-appalachia-usa">View project</a>

Appalachia, USA

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At the turn of the 20th century, Scotland was just 5% forested of its original cover. Native broadleaves are planted in this innovative restoration project.
<a href="/projects/reforesting-dalry-scotland">View project</a>

Dalry, Scotland

Where we are doing this

It costs 10 to 30 times more to plant locally than it does in places like Madagascar (~£0.24). For this reason you&#8217;ll be adding to your subscription rather than replacing these high impact low cost trees elsewhere in the world. If you’d like to plant trees closer to home, you can easily add it to your subscription if you’re currently in the UK, US or Australia.
If you’re not yet a subscriber, you’ll bump in to it when you create an account:
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If you’re already climate positive and are logged in, head <a href="/plan">here</a> to update your subscription.

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Big news here at Ecologi HQ! Ecologi Zero is working with Xero to help scale up net-zero in the UK. Our carbon footprinting tool has officially joined the Xero App Store. This joining-of-forces will give thousands of UK service-based small businesses the option to calculate their carbon footprint for free, making it much easier to take climate action and start their net-zero journey. It’s also a big step towards helping the UK decarbonise faster, so we’re really proud of it.

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 Unlocking carbon footprinting for small businesses

In the past, carbon footprinting has required a team of expensive consultants to calculate a manual snapshot of emissions. This was far beyond the reach of most small businesses. But that&#8217;s history. This is now.
We designed Ecologi Zero Beta for UK-based small businesses operating in the services industries. The tool’s listing on the UK Xero App Store will give thousands of these businesses the option to easily calculate their carbon footprint for free. 
By connecting Ecologi Zero and Xero, businesses can efficiently calculate their carbon footprint and gain insights into their emissions – much faster than they’d be able to otherwise, at no cost, and based entirely on existing data. So it’s officially time for businesses to stop guessing and start taking action.
It also means that businesses can look outside their direct business emissions and at the suppliers that they work with across their supply chains. Cleaning up supply chain emissions is vital for reaching net-zero, as they can account for up to 90% of a business&#8217; total emissions.

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This joining-of-forces feels particularly timely for us, as COP27 saw calls for stronger guidance around net-zero pledges. Yet, according to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), just 177 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) submitted net-zero targets during 2021. That’s less than 1% of the 5.6 million SMEs in the UK &#8211; not great. 
A 2021 survey by the British Business Bank also found that only 6% of SMEs are likely to have measured their carbon footprint in the last five years (despite SMEs making up 99% of the UK business population and contributing half of all business-driven emissions in the UK). Ecologi’s own research shows that 8 in 10 businesses want to be greener, but don’t know where to start. And it’s no surprise that the major barrier is cost. 
Our CEO, Elliot Coad said: 
“The 1.5 goal may now be unachievable without a major transformation in how businesses operate. If the UK is to reach net-zero by 2050, we need businesses, government and wider society to urgently come together to reduce emissions. At Ecologi, we want to build trust around the decarbonisation process, showing businesses that taking climate action can be simple and rewarding &#8211; with no prior experience needed.”

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Now that we’re on the Xero App Store, more UK small businesses will have the tools they need to get started on their net-zero journey. That means zero excuses, zero limits and zero reasons to wait.
Find out more about Ecologi Zero and sign up <a href="https://ecologi.com/business/zero">here</a>.

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How to make your workplace more climate conscious

It’s time to take the initiative and start that conversation with your boss.
How do you start making your business more climate conscious if you’re not the head honcho? Well, it should all start with a (maybe) awkward but (definitely) necessary conversation with your boss. 
It just so happens that this juicy topic is the subject of the final episode of ’1.5 degrees of Confusion’ &#8211; our new three-part mini-series, produced in partnership with WaterBear and narrated by BBC climate presenter Ade Adepitan. The series aims to clear up the complexity around the climate crisis, cut through the jargon, and get focused on solutions. You can watch it <a href="https://www.waterbear.com/watch/63526124ee20e575195ef7a4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. 
If you do strike up a climate conversation with your boss, they’ll probably be glad you asked. Most likely they want to take climate action, but aren’t sure where to start. Anyone can take the initiative here. Why not be the one to raise our planet up the priority list and become your office’s climate champion? 
Good intentions are one thing, but to turn talk into action you need a plan. So here’s ten great questions you can ask your boss to get things moving:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Do we calculate our carbon footprint?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">If so, does this include emissions from our whole supply chain, or just our own business’?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Are we trying to reach net-zero?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">If so, do we have targets and a timeline for this?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Where are most of our greenhouse gas emissions coming from?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How could these emissions be reduced or avoided altogether?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Do we use renewable energy?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">What are we doing to communicate our sustainability policies? </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Are we investing in climate impact projects?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">And if so, are they certified and legitimate?</li>
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That should get the conversation flowing! And if you need a hand making the first move, our friends at WaterBear have made an email draft for you to use with your manager or leadership team:
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Hi X,
I hope you are well.
I recently watched a film on WaterBear and it got me thinking about our greenhouse gas emissions as a business. I would love to know a bit more about our plans to become net-zero, and whether we measure our carbon footprint?
It would be great to talk about this and share a few tips I learnt while watching. When would you have time to discuss this?
Many thanks,
X
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To find out more about how Ecologi can help your business measure its footprint, offset its emissions and fund climate solutions, visit <a href="https://ecologi.com/business/zero" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecologi.com/business/zero</a>.

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One of the most common questions we get asked at Ecologi is how we choose the carbon avoidance projects we fund. We’re all about transparency and accountability at Ecologi, and we’re keen to lift the lid on how these important decisions get made.
Our process and approach is guided by a number of factors which we’ll touch on in this blog, but the foundation to these decisions lies in our <a href="https://ecologi-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/Ecologi-Impact-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate Impact Regionalisation Strategy</a>. In this article, we’ll deep dive into some of the key takeaways from the Strategy document, and discuss the background behind this key piece of research.

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Climate change mitigation relies on developing policies, and supporting projects, which directly address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions &#8211; specifically targeting solutions with a high potential impact. Often, the success of these solutions heavily depends on regionally- or locally-specific factors, which can be categorised into:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Financial and political factors (like funding, governance and institutions)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Geographical factors (like project size, topography and local climate) </li>
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At the same time, there are different levels of responsibility that cities, regions and countries have, over the mitigation of climate change. With relatively small contributions to global climate change &#8211; but extremely high vulnerabilities to its consequences &#8211;  developing regions and countries are at the forefront of the crises. These countries and regions also have less financial capacity to mitigate and adapt. For Ecologi, contextualising our response to a global crisis is not only necessary from a climate perspective, but it also enables us to include issues of environmental and social justice into our project selection criteria. 
As well as the day-to-day processes we use to scrutinise climate projects to ensure they are high quality, we also have our finger on the pulse of climate research and climate finance, to ensure that the projects we support are going to contribute wherever there is the greatest opportunity to have the biggest impact.
In early 2022, we therefore formalised our <a href="https://ecologi-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/Ecologi-Impact-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate Impact Regionalisation Strategy</a>, a science-based analysis of where these opportunities are.

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The Strategy was specially developed to provide guidance for the regional application of climate impact solutions and projects. 
The Strategy document will give you an overview of regional climate change impacts on human systems and settlements, in order to better capture regional vulnerabilities to climate change. We’ve analysed regionalities in the light of past and current climate change finance, and described the available climate mitigation strategies globally and regionally.
Finally, and to integrate the climate change discourse into broader environmental and planning discussions, we reflect on the synergies and tradeoffs between climate solutions, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and biodiversity. Therefore, the Strategy not only looks at climate change mitigation but also attempts to account for biodiversity and planetary boundaries. 
Unclear on any of the climate terms? Take a look at <a href="https://ecologi.com/glossary-of-climate-terms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">our glossary</a>!

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Below you&#8217;ll find our top 10 research findings from the Strategy:
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<li>National-scale emissions targets cover a huge chunk (90% in 2020) of global emissions &#8211; but only 6% of global emissions are covered by targets with a net-zero pathway which will keep warming under 1.5ºC.</li>
<li>Current annual climate finance flows of $640 billion (USD) are nowhere near estimated needs &#8211; which are estimated at around $5 trillion (USD) per year. In developing regions, current climate investments need to be multiplied by 10 to 20 times on average by 2030.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A quarter of global emissions (2019 baseline) could be avoided by options with mitigation costs lower than $20 (USD) per tCO2e.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Onshore wind and solar photovoltaics are anticipated to dominate the growth of renewables in all regions. Other renewables such as hydro, bioenergy, geothermal, and ocean energy have limited impact &#8211; except in specific regions like the Middle East, North Africa, North America and China.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Nature-based solutions can provide about a third of the climate mitigation needed by 2030 and a fifth by 2050. Half of this impact comes from the protection and conservation of natural ecosystems. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Restoration efforts should primarily focus in regions throughout the tropics, particularly in the lowland tropical rainforest landscape. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Restoration activities need to be targeted to specific regions, for example with low opportunity cost and high conservation value from a biodiversity perspective, like in the North and South of the Congo Basin, and in Central and South America.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Direct air capture and storage (DACS) is a suitable solution in countries with high waste heat production and low CO2 intensities within their national grid &#8211; and not recommended in developing countries, (semi-)arid regions, and countries with a fossil-fuel reliant electricity mix. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Because of water use required, most regions, except Western Europe and Southeast Asia, have very limited potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) as a reasonable mitigation solution. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">At the project level, the integration of social co-benefits such as health outcomes in selecting climate solutions can help prioritise one region or country over another. This applies for example in West and East Africa, as well as in Southern and Southeast Asia where the distribution of efficient cookstoves can be applied as a joint health and climate solution.   </li>
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At Ecologi, we recognise that the science of climate change mitigation goes deeper than presented in the Strategy &#8211; and we always recommend taking a look at the latest <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPCC Reports</a> for detail on the latest developments.
Our Strategy seeks to apply learnings from the latest climate science &#8211; to help to further enhance the impact of our climate projects by providing high-level guidance as to where our impact funding should be placed. 
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Download the full Climate Impact Regionalisation Strategy <a href="https://ecologi-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/Ecologi-Impact-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. 
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