What we do
Searching, earning, offsetting
In our partnership with Yahoo! we receive a percentage of the search advertising revenue generated from all of the search boxes we provide. From this we then pay out 50-70% of the revenue from your search box back to you.
There are no costs to set up your search box, and it's really easy and fast to do. Carbon Free Search technology allows you to deploy your own branded search box onto your company or organisations website or intranet and provides you with a suite of tools to help distribute and explain the process to employees, suppliers, residents and corporate supporters alike. The search results generated through your Carbon Free Search search box are exactly the same as if you went direct to Yahoo! The only difference is you are helping to raise money for your chosen cause!
Once it's up and running you can view your revenue daily, from a password protected account. Your employees and corporate supporters can also see what they have helped raise with an overall figure that's updated daily. Learn more...
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Reduction, offsetting, understanding the issue
With its carbon scheme partner PURE, Carbon Free Search is able to help its clients identify and create a scheme to reduce and / or offset their organisations carbon footprint and can also offer its clients gold standard UN recognised carbon credits.
From heating an office to running a fleet of vehicles, all of our everyday actions consume energy and produce carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide is believed to be the most significant greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Having done everything one can to reduce these emissions, offsetting is a way of compensating for those remaining with an equivalent carbon dioxide saving, thus lessening the impact of our actions.
Whilst there are a number of regulations that require some companies to reduce and offset their emissions (e.g. power companies), there are many businesses and individuals that choose to offset their emissions to help mitigate against their own activities.
At PURE we believe that offsetting is a vital step to combating climate change. However, to gain maximum benefit, all actions should be part of a carbon management plan which sets out a clear strategy for implementing reduction measures and monitoring and advancing your progress.
Climate change is the major global environmental issue that businesses of all sizes are having to face. Many businesses are emitting excessive carbon emissions and incurring unnecessary energy costs, simply by not recognising the opportunities available to them to manage their energy usage and improve energy efficiency.
Offset donations to PURE support Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction projects worldwide, which are audited and verified by the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism.
Emission reduction projects issue carbon credits, which may be used by polluters within Kyoto emissions trading schemes for compliance purposes. Carbon credits purchased by PURE however, are cancelled by us and effectively put beyond use - thereby removing them from the international register, and hence limiting the amount of greenhouse gases that polluting companies can release into the atmosphere.
Carbon credits are cancelled by us within one year of your offset purchase.
This methodology meets both the UK Government's Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting and offers a dual environmental benefit.
Organisations that are significant electricity users such as banks, hotel chains, supermarkets and large office-based companies will be required to measure and reduce their emissions as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) beginning in 2010. Learn more...
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