Syscap launches school carbon offsetting programme
Independent IT financier Syscap has announced a programme to
offset carbon emissions for all of the IT equipment that it leases
to schools within the UK.
The scheme, launched on June 1, aims to offset carbon emissions
in Kenya with the collaboration of the African Energy Efficient
School Stoves Project. The project is run by co2balance, a
specialist carbon offsetting organisation.
The African Energy Efficient School Stoves Project replaces wood
fires used to cook food in Kenyan schools with stoves that are 75
percent more efficient.
While helping the environment, it also provides schools with
significantly reduced energy costs, approximately half, which can
be used to fund improvements to the schools as well as saving the
time previously used to collect wood.
“Up until now if a school wanted to run a carbon neutral scheme
for its IT equipment it would have to set up its own offsetting
scheme with a carbon offsetting company, which is a prohibitively
expensive and time consuming process,” said Philip White, chief
executive of Syscap.
“The novelty of our this scheme is that when a school leases IT
equipment through us, all their carbon is automatically offset,
irrespective of the manufacturer or what their equipment actually
is.”
Valerie Noury