Our reforestation project removes CO2 from the atmosphere, but what is the carbon footprint of arboRise’s activities? How much CO2 do the project’s activities emit into the atmosphere?
This carbon footprint is based on the Bilan Carbone™ methodology and lists all GHG emissions from arboRise and GUIDRE activities in Switzerland and Guinea for the two regions (Linko-Damaro-Konsankoro and Samana-Diassodou-Sokourala-Koumandou) during the 30-year and 20-year certification periods, respectively.
Summary of results:
This carbon footprint of 1,100 t CO2e will enable the absorption of 2,400,000 t CO2e thanks to the reforestation activities carried out by arboRise and GUIDRE in two regions (Linko-Damaro-Konsankoro and Samana-Diassodou-Sokourala-Koumandou) over a period of 20 and 30 years respectively. The project’s emissions therefore represent only 0.5% of the CO2 that the project will remove from the atmosphere.
Comments and potential for improvement:
- The travel of GUIDRE teams in the field is, of course, the main source of CO2 emissions. In the long term, the use of electric vehicles will need to be considered and tested.
- Air travel (project leader, auditors, partners, business visitors) accounts for 18% of the total (196 t CO2e). If all non-employees (auditors, partners, business visitors) were represented by only one person instead of two, this would save 72 t CO2e. This requires a change in standards and practices. When the Transguinéen railway is available, we will be able to replace internal flights with train travel.
- Half of the input footprint is made up of meals for GUIDRE teams in the field, which are difficult to reduce unless they become vegetarian (meat footprint: 123 t CO2e). Other inputs with a significant footprint are fencing and tarpaulins for seed families.
The detailed report is available here.: 251119_Bilan carbone arboRise
