Club leaf

What does Club Leaf do?
Club Leaf is a sustainability solutions developer providing creative solutions for consumers and corporates to help calculate their carbon emissions, find ways to reduce them, and offset the remaining emissions through high-quality, certified carbon offset projects. Our services include sustainable loyalty services and climate positive customer engagement solutions.

Find out more at clubleaf.com

What is Club Leaf doing for Green Ray?

Club Leaf is Green Ray’s climate partner. Club Leaf is assisting Green Ray in compensating for the remaining greenhouse gas emissions (expressed in carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2e) that are emitted from the production of Green Ray products.

These emissions, based on calculations by carbon accounting experts Ecochain, are compensated for through certified climate projects carefully selected by Club Leaf, and include restoring and protecting ecosystems, supporting renewable energy technology and replacing carbon intensive cookstoves.

What is Green Ray doing to reduce their impact?

Ecochain has measured the carbon footprint of different components/solutions during the development of Green Ray cookware.
Once scenarios were ready, product features that reduced footprint to the minimum have been applied to the products.
Green Ray cookware is produced having a lower CO2e footprint thanks to this innovative approach. Below some features that allowed it:
- Minimum amount of packaging made of recycled paper
- 100% recycled aluminium used for Green Ray pans
- All components, with the exception of the coating, manufactured regionally in Italy
- For more details see
100% of remaining carbon emissions are compensated for using certified carbon credits to support projects that avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which contributes to climate neutrality.

How do we identify which projects to support?

Club Leaf’s portfolio is structured around projects that include both short- and long- term benefits, that avoid, reduce or capture emissions, and that benefit both people and the planet. Club Leaf has several criteria the projects have to meet to be included in their climate portfolio, including:

All projects must contribute to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Each and every one of our projects is verified by the highest voluntary carbon offsetting standard, for people and the planet, verified by the internationally recognized Gold Standard, Verified Carbon Standard and/or Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards.
They must be in line with the International Carbon Reduction & Offset Alliance (ICROA) code of best practice which means that project credits must be real, measurable, permanent, additional, independently verified and unique.

They must use solutions that are highly effective in combating climate change as supported by the latest scientific knowledge, like those researched by Project Drawdown.

The PLUS campaign has invested in the following environmental projects:

An important partner is Club Leaf. Club Leaf compensates for the calculated CO2 emissions of the Green Ray pans by investing in verified environmental projects.

The RimbaRaya Biodiversity Reserve is one of the world’s largest initiatives to protect and restore tropical lowland peat swamp forests. One of the most highly endangered and important ecosystems in the world, the reserve is more than 64,000 hectares, which makes it nearly as large as Singapore!

RimbaRaya is extraordinarily rich in biodiversity, and is home to several keystone species such as the endangered Bornean Orangutan, Clouded Leopard, Bornean Gibbon, and Asian Sun Bear.Projectrevenues have helped to fund everything from rehabilitation and environmental education programs, to Orangutan Foundation International.

To learn more about this project:

https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/674
www.rimba-raya.com
https://www.clubleaf.com/land-project-rimba-raya

Project impact

15,000,000 Kg CO2e reduced to date

1900 water filtration systems distributed to local communities

300,000 trees have been planted to date

Project benefits

Supports all 17 United Nations Development Goals

Protects exosystems and endangered species like Orangutans and Clouded Leopards

Boosts community micro financing initiatives

Project target

avoid 130 million tons of CO2e emissions by preserving over 64,000 hectares of tropical peat swamp forest
The Infierno Indigenous Forest Project protects nearly 8,000
hectares of pristine rainforest against the rapid increase in
deforestation, by working with the local indigenous community
of Evio Kuiñaje Ese Eja.

Located in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, the project is
promoting sustainable economic activities such as agroforestry,
safeguarding indigenous culture and knowledge, supporting
improved forest governance, and establishing key conservation
areas.

Being one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, Madre
de Dios is home to a host of iconic endangered species such as
the Black Caiman, Harpy Eagle, and the Giant Otter.

To learn more about this project:

https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/1218
https://www.clubleaf.com/land-project-madre-de-dios

Project impact

7,750 hectares of threatened forest in the Peruvian Amazon protected

117,676 tons of CO2e emissions avoided annually

1,655 hectares of forest with reduced forest loss

Project benefits

Training local communities in forest management

Increased participation of women in decision making

Developmet of agroforestry and ecotourism to support local livelihoods

Project target

Avoiding the emissions of 1,176,759 tons of CO2e during the first 10 years.
The Gansu Chagma Wind Project is perfectly situated on
the edge of the Gobi desert to take advantage of the
extremely high winds in the area. The electricity
generated by this project is delivered to the Northwest
China Power Grid (NWPG), which has previously been
largely connected to fossil fuel powered plants.

The project is helping people and the planet alike -
creating jobs in green energy and helping to protect the
environment by reducing emissions by over 425,000 tons
of CO2e a year.

To learn more about this project:

https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/717
https://www.clubleaf.com/energy-project-gansu-changma

Project impact

327 local jobs created

431,949 MWh clean electricity expected to be delivered by the project annually

Project benefits

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by avoiding use of fossil fuels

Improved local air quality

Increased access to stable power in the region

Project target

Reduce emissions by over 430,000 tons CO2e per year.
Less than one in five households in Bangladesh have access to a
clean cookstove and have to burn wood and other biomass on
traditional open fire stoves, which releases harmful smoke and
pollutants. This puts women and children at particular risk due to
the roles they play in preparing meals.

Bondhu Chula Cookstove Project helps local communities by
installing clean cookstoves. This not only reduces pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions, but also helps promote employment
opportunities for local people and means households require less
fuel, which in turn reduces deforestation.

To learn more about this project:

https://registry.goldstandard.org/projects/details/537
https://www.clubleaf.com/community-project-bondhu-chula-cookstove
https://www.climatecare.org/projects/project-map/bondhu-chula-stoves-in-bangladesh/

Project impact

286,000 tons of CO2e reduced to date

3,000,000 Bondhu Chula stoves have been installed to date

5000 local entrepreneurs supported in stove manufacture and distribution

Project benefits

Removes harmful indoor air pollution

Reduces fuel consumption by up to 50%, which saves money on fuel and gives families with more disposable income

Reduces pressure on local forests and biodiversity

Project target

Reduce 22 million tons of CO2e over the next 10 years.