This project is a partnership with Kenya’s Escarpment Environment Conservation Network (ESCONET), geared towards sustainable rehabilitation and management of the natural forest ecosystem. When you choose this project, you will be helping to raise funds to plant thousands of trees, provide education on sustainable land management skills and work to local communities. The Kenya reforestation project provides environmental benefits to reduce CO2 emissions and also valuable & highly visible socio-economic benefits. ESCONET started in October 2004 and aims to be a leading Community-Based Organisation, mitigating against environmental degradation through rehabilitation and conservation of the natural ecosystems in the Great Rift Valley area, Kenya. Over the past few years, the escarpment was virtually depleted by human effects / poor land management causing loss of forest vegetation cover leading to drying of springs / rivers /streams, soil erosion and emigration of wildlife/birds. The objective of the Carbon Footprint - ESCONET project is to reverse this. The Carbon Footprint-ESCONET project provides substantial socio-economic benefits to disadvantaged communities; helping to reduce poverty, providing wildlife habitats and creating a brighter future for orphans and people living with HIV / AIDS. Last year we received endorsement from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for our reforestation efforts in The Great Rift Valley. All trees pledged and planted by Carbon Footprint / ESCONET were included in the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, which aimed to plant over 1 billion trees in 2007 across the globe to help avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change.

This programme provides carbon offsetting via Carbon Footprint’s handpicked portfolio of international projects that are all validated to the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). The exact content of the programme will vary from time to time, as credits are allocated and new projects come on stream. Carbon Footprint Ltd supports a variety of clean / renewable energy offset projects around the world. A project currently being supported is the Wind Energy Project in Harshnath, India. Wind Energy Project in Harshnath, India The objective of this carbon offset project is development, design, engineering, procurement, finance, construction, operation and maintenance of wind power projects totalling 4.8 MW wind power projects in the Indian state of Rajasthan to provide reliable, renewable power to the Rajasthan state electricity grid which is part of the Northern regional electricity grid. The project will lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions because it displaces electricity from fossil fuel based electricity generation plants. The carbon offset project activity contributes towards sustainable development of the country and the state of Rajasthan by reducing the dependency on fossil fuel based electricity generation, which ultimately leads to reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon offset project also fulfils several other sustainable development objectives as set out below: • Carbon Dioxide abatement and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through development of renewable technology • Reducing the average emission intensity, average effluent intensity and average solid waste intensity of power generation in the system • Conserving natural resources including land, forests, minerals, water and ecosystems and • Developing the local economy and create jobs and employment, particularly in rural areas, which is a priority concern for the Government of India. The total estimated reductions from this carbon offset project are 16,591 tonnes of CO2e