Where does your money go?
When you offset your gas consumption or transport use (like car or air travel) through the Go Green Calculator™, your money goes towards projects such as waste composting, traditional flaring and energy efficiency programs which form our Carbon Reduction Scheme™.
When you purchase offsets for your electricity consumption, your money goes towards offsets sourced from Government accredited GreenPower offsets.
Origin tree planting contribution
On behalf of carbon offsetting customers in 2008 we retired an extra 2,000 tonnes of carbon offsets created from the reforestation of Eucalypt trees on Kyoto compliant land in NSW. This is our way of going beyond our Carbon Reduction Scheme™ requirements and further contributing to a more sustainable future.
Planting trees creates carbon sinks (sequestration) that reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Eucalypt trees have unique characteristics making them ideal for sequestration. Their roots are very thick which enables them to grow back quickly if the top part of the tree (trunk, branches and leaves) is damaged from fire or harvesting. These offsets are accredited under the NSW Government Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme which insures the certificates for 100 years, protecting these certificates against fire, drought, pest and disease to the plantation.
NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme
Under the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (Scheme), strict controls are implemented to ensure that:
- Only accredited and audited net annual increases in carbon abatement arising from specific forests can be used to create offsets under this Scheme (these are called NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Certificates ( NGACs);
- NGACs can only be created that correspond to the minimum carbon stocks that can be maintained for 100 years;
- NGACs cannot be generated from sequestration that is used to offset emissions under any other scheme;
- All NGACs are registered with the GGAS greenhouse gas reduction Scheme Administrator, currently IPART (Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of NSW);
- Ownership of NGACs is tracked via a Registry at all times;
- Providers of NGACs must remain in compliance with the Scheme at all times. These controls ensure that any purchaser of a carbon sequestration NGAC can be confident that the certificate is legitimate and is a genuine and verified offset against the emission of a tonne of carbon dioxide.
- Read more about the Scheme