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trees in the next 5 years
tonnes of CO2 in the next five years
Here at VAT Loans our sister company, WestWon Limited, is continuing to expand their green agenda. They have teamed up with a company called Ecologi. They plant trees on behalf of over 11,000 companies and also offset carbon in order to help fight climate change. WestWon does this by calculating our employees’ emissions. Therefore they plant trees or fund climate projects that will neutralise those emissions.
Just like our sister company, we will be planting a tree for every month of your lease agreement with us. For example, for a 5 year agreement, that’s 60 months, and 60 trees planted! We can’t wait to help our climate further. As well as this we will ensure the safety of our future planet.
If you would like to join us on our journey and help contribute, then please reach out and contact us. You can alternatively view the virtual WestWon woodland here.
Our impact is publicly viewable through Ecologi. The WestWon Woodland shows how many trees have been planted on our behalf and the amount of carbon we have funded the removal of. You can view the virtual WestWon Woodland using the link on this page.
Every tree funded through our finance agreements is recorded in our Ecologi account and shown in the WestWon Woodland. Ecologi evidences all climate action on its public impact ledger, so the number of trees planted and the carbon reduced can be tracked transparently over time.
Being a climate positive workforce means we fund tree planting and certified climate projects that offset more carbon than our team produces. In simple terms, we help to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we create, reducing our overall impact on the environment.
Alongside tree planting, we have taken a number of practical steps to reduce our own footprint. We run a paperless office, use LED lighting throughout our buildings, have fitted insulated ceiling tiles to lower our energy consumption, host our IT systems in an outsourced data centre in Helsinki powered by solar energy, and have introduced electric cars for employee use.
Ecologi’s projects are operated by Eden Reforestation Projects. Their mission is to give reforestation employment opportunities to villagers in need, and ensure that they are paid fairly. So, not only are they dedicated to protecting the planet, but they change the lives of those local to the tree planting projects for the better.
Ecologi is a certified B Corp and is transparent about how it operates. The majority of subscription income is used to fund climate solutions: planting trees through verified reforestation partners such as Eden Reforestation Projects, and supporting independently certified carbon reduction projects such as renewable energy and forest protection. All climate action is evidenced on the Ecologi public impact ledger.
