Projects

Carbon Friendly™ finances, supports and maintains global afforestation and reforestation projects. Afforestation/reforestation is simply the creation of new forests. Trees sequestor carbon dioxide (the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) and store it in the wood and in the soil. Like a sponge is to water, a tree is to carbon dioxide. Forests actually remove exisiting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to clean up the exisiting global warming mess.

In addition to sequestering carbon, trees provide us with the clean air that we breathe. The leaves of trees act as a natural filter, absorbing other air pollutants such as carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. They also act a natural air conditioner, moderating our climate. Trees conserve water, protecting us from storm runoff and the possibility of flooding. Trees also harbor wildlife, attracting birds and other woodland animals.

Carbon Friendly™ ensures that all of its' forestation projects are verified to meet the highest level of industry standards. Our methodologies, calculations and processes have been validated by reputable 3rd parties such as Kashue, Poland, the “National Administration of the Emission Trading Scheme” and byTÜV Rheinland .

List of Carbon Friendly™ Forestation Projects

Carbon Friendly, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CO2 Reduction Poland Sp Z.o.o has recently aggregated a total of 932.51 hectares of private lands in Northern Poland, of which 4,084,972 trees were planted on 671.12 hectares to initiate the first phase of its Warmian-Masurian, Poland Afforestation Offset Project.

CFS is completing the Project Design Document (PDD) using CDM and Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) methodologies to submit for potential validation to our third-party auditors, who are authorized to conduct audits using CDM and VCS.  CFS expects the Project to earn VCS validation in early 2010 and anticipates that approximately 500,000 tonnes of high-quality carbon credits, validated to VCS methodologies, will be generated from the Project to be sold in the Voluntary Market.

The Project is located in the province of Warmian-Masurian, Northern Poland.  The Project land was aggregated and afforested in cooperation with CO2 Reduction Poland Sp. Z.o.o and eight different private land owners for a 30 year project period.

CFS and our partner Trees For Clean Air planted 99,269 jack pine seedlings and 7,264 willow seedlings in a 45-hectare area of the project site.  The project design uses an adaptive management approach that will treat the remaining 5 hectares of the project site as an experimental plot that will be planted with 7,240 fast-growing willows.  Carbon Friendly’s Northern Ontario Project will benefit the community, climate and biodiversity in the project zone in the following ways:

Jankowice Afforestation Project, Poland

A 50.74 hectare reforestation project located in the province of Warmia-Mazury of Poland. Over 250,000 trees will sequester over over 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. In addition to the sequestration, the planting of the new forest will create important wildlife habitat to native species.

*The methodologies for quantifying documenting and reporting of carbon dioxide removals from the above projects are verified by TUV Rheinland Poland to the ISO-14064-2 standard.