Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment – supporting nature’s recovery and reducing Oxfordshire’s carbon footprint through natural climate solutions
TOE applauds and encourages the excellent intentions already stated by Parish Councils throughout Oxfordshire, to consider how they can help reduce their community’s impact on climate change in their own small part of the county. The work already underway to make homes more energy efficient, to explore shared energy schemes, cycle ways and low energy transport schemes will all help towards achieving our joint goal to reduce our carbon footprint.
TOE also urges Parish Councils to consider how they can support and enable a range of environmental projects that will result in greater levels of biodiversity and richer habitats which help to restore nature, and reduce carbon emissions.
Each individual in the UK emits approximately 10 tonnes of carbon per year, from activities such as energy use, travel, food etc.
Tree planting, hedgerows, orchards, grasslands and better managed soils all act as a vast carbon sink, absorbing the carbon in our atmosphere and helping to reduce greenhouse gases.
TOE is raising funds to support a wide range of projects that will lock up carbon in Oxfordshire. We are establishing a fund where individuals or organisations can donate through our website to offset their carbon by directly supporting habitat improvement projects which will sequester carbon. We can only support as many projects as our funds allow, so the more we raise, the more projects we can support.
By working together, we can turn this around.