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Cwm Fagor is a mile west of Devauden in Monmouthshire, close to the Wye Valley area of outstanding natural beauty.
It was the first project to be accredited to the Woodland Carbon Code in Wales.
Thorlux Lighting successfully reduced their carbon emissions through the 2000s. The company purchased the 80 hectare site at Cwm Fagor in 2008 to create a diverse, resilient mixed woodland which would sequester carbon to compensate for the company’s residual carbon emissions.
You can find out more on the Thorlux website.
Thorlux worked with a local land agent and Pryor & Rickett Silviculture to identify a site, plan the woodland creation project and implement it.
The project has established woodland across the whole site in compliance with the UK Forestry Standard and the Woodland Carbon Code. There were three phases of woodland creation in the project over 15-years. The trees are under active maintenance for weeding, wildlife control and recycling of protection guards.
The project provides Pending Issuance Units and Woodland Carbon Units that demonstrate carbon sequestered to a high standard with international recognition. Thorlux clients have valued visits to Cwm Fagor as a symbol to the company’s commitment to biodiversity, sustainability and mitigating climate change.
Mike Allcock, Thorlux’s Managing Director, explained: “It’s particularly pleasing that this woodland will be contributing towards several targets to address climate change. The scheme is a demonstration that we recognise the emissions from Thorlux Lighting and the FW Thorpe Lighting Group and will also help the Welsh Government’s target to increase the area of woodland.
“Our manufacturing processes will always produce emissions and these can be calculated and offset. However, lighting generally accounts for approximately 20% of all global carbon dioxide emissions. We hope to help reduce this by selling extremely efficient lighting and electronic control systems. However, no matter how much we save, a small amount of energy use is inevitable. Woodland offsetting is a long term project to compliment this.”
The project provides permissive access to local community groups interested in the project. There are visible increases in key flora and fauna such as small mammals, butterflies and bluebells.
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The Premier Paper Group is the UK’s leading independent paper merchant. The company has an active policy of taking practical steps of reducing the environmental impact of its activities, including compensating for carbon dioxide emissions by planting trees.
It offers customers and their clients the opportunity to capture carbon dioxide emissions from their paper purchases by planting native woodland right here in the UK, through projects in the Woodland Trust's Woodland Carbon Scheme, validated to the Woodland Carbon Code. Through its nationwide distribution network Premier Paper offers a wide range of paper products, including Woodland Trust Office Paper.
Premier Paper has been working with the Woodland Trust since 2011. The partnership gives its customers the chance to compensate over time for the carbon dioxide generated from the production and distribution of the paper that they buy. One hundred percent of this carbon capture charge is then passed on to the Woodland Trust to fund the planting of trees.
In 2014 Premier Paper announced it was producing its first ever reams of Woodland Trust Office Paper. Now, for every 500 sheet pack of this fully sustainable Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) quality paper that is sold, 5p of the wholesale price goes directly to the Woodland Trust. Woodland Trust Office Paper is a unique brand in the UK market, carbon dioxide generated in the production and storage of Woodland Trust Office Paper is compensated for through Premier’s Carbon Capture programme which plants trees with the Woodland Trust’s Woodland Carbon Scheme.
As well as the Carbon Capture programme and Woodland Trust Office Paper, Premier Paper loves to encourage its staff and customers to roll their sleeves up and get involved in a host of tree planting days – sometimes planting thousands of trees in a day!
Premier has planted trees at Warcop in Cumbria and Heartwood in Hertfordshire. More recently it sponsored a tree planting event in Scotland involving businesses, schools, colleges and local residents, bringing a spot of green space to an urban environment in Livingston. Premier has plans to hold even more events right across the UK with the Woodland Trust as tree planting is a great way for people to engage with woodlands and learn more about trees and the nature they help support.
Trees from managed plantations provide the raw material for the paper that we sell, so engaging in a woodland carbon project was a logical step to take.
We offer our customers the opportunity to become part of a strong environmental marketing programme and compensate for carbon dioxide emissions from the paper that they buy and use. In doing so, they help create beautiful native woodland here in the UK. Woodland that will endure and provide much needed wildlife habitats and recreational spaces for years to come.
Engaging in woodland carbon projects has enabled Premier to develop a marketing programme with a strong environmental message that permeates through all levels of our supply chain, from our suppliers through to our customers and even on to their clients.
We have worked with Woodland Carbon Code projects since 2011 and have held numerous tree planting events and other initiatives that have provided a wealth of positive messages and achievements for us and our customers to talk about. The Carbon Capture programme through the Woodland Trust has helped us win and retain business by providing an environmental marketing programme that customers can easily commit to and, in turn, promote to their clients and stakeholders. The marketing programme, through its association with the Woodland Trust and the Woodland Carbon Code, is highly visible, has a high level of credibility and delivers tangible results by creating new native UK woodland.
The success of the programme and our relationship with the Woodland Trust has also helped build our values and shape the corporate culture of the Premier Paper Group.
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