Reaching the highest attainable level in 2018, this has been the sixth year running for Brussels Airport to be awarded the Airport Carbon Accreditation level 3. Level 3+, or full CO2-neutrality of its own emissions.
Recent years already saw the airport drive down its CO2 by a third, with the remaining mission volume to be offset by supporting the Saving Trees climate project in Uganda.
Saving trees in Uganda
co2logic CEO Antoine Geerinckx and Eric Dierckx, the managing director of sister company Naturalogic, explain:
“95% of the Ugandan population use wood and charcoal to do their everyday cooking. The result? The systematic deforestation of the rain forest.
The Saving Trees project works to counteract this large-scale deforestation by breaking people’s dependence on wood and charcoal.
Each year, co2logic builds thousands of energy-efficient baking ovens in Uganda to help the local population cut down on their wood consumption. The stoves are 40 to 50% more efficient and save a family up to 75 euros a year – which represents around a quarter of their annual income. Beneficial for the environment as well as the local economy.
Courtesy of these efficient little ovens, the women, whose job it is to go out and collect firewood, have more time and money to spend on raising and educating their children and on other enriching projects.
The modern appliances also emit fewer noxious gases inside people’s homes, thereby protecting the health of all the members of the family. In doing so, we are all doing our bit to accomplish sustainable development goals (UN goals): from poverty reduction and raising social equality all the way up to protecting the planet’s biodiversity.