Gatwick Airport Limited (GAL) has partnered with two Wildlife Trusts to help remove carbon emissions.
Building on GAL’s industry-leading approach to biodiversity, which has seen it awarded the Wildlife Trust Biodiversity Benchmark for the past 11 years, the airport operator is now partnering with Kent and Somerset Wildlife Trusts.
The partnerships will support two new projects which will see degraded former agricultural land transformed into species-rich habitats over the coming years.
These projects will help to support wildlife and ecology, contribute to flood alleviation, and benefit local communities for years to come, while also capturing carbon.
The projects have been facilitated by Wilder Carbon, a not-for-profit which matches organisations looking to expand their sustainability work with wildlife organisations which deliver high quality environmental projects.
GAL has invested £1m which will be used to remove 10,000 tonnes CO2e via the Wilder Carbon projects at Ironhurst Valley Nature Reserve in Kent and Honeygar Farm in Somerset.
These carbon emissions will be significant proportion of what’s left after GAL has successfully delivered a £250million capital programme to reduce carbon emissions as far as possible.
This carbon removed from the atmosphere via these projects will “offset” the residual emissions generated by the airport operator between 2030 and 2039, which cannot be eliminated.
GAL is making this investment now to assure the transformation of these sites, paving the way for future benefits in the decades to come.
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