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Today’s consumers are moreenvironmentally minded. Is your brand keeping up?
93% The percentage of
consumers who say they
have a responsibility to
protect the planet.*
*NBC Universal, 2011
For companies seeking to offset their environmental footprint,
InfiniteEARTH offers a wide range of carbon credits and biodiversity
offset solutions that add an active environmental component to your
brand story.
Our programs are backed by the world’s largest avoided deforestation
conservation initiative, measured by total emissions offsets.
Our Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve project emissions
of over 130 million tonnes – the equivalent of removing over one million cars from the world’s highways every year for the next 30 years.
InfiniteEARTH can tailor carbon credit or environmental offset
programs that drive brand loyalty and help defray program costs.
Through our rewards programs, consumers can directly engage in
InfiniteEARTH’s wildlife conservation, forest preservation and social
development efforts.
Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility is an all-consuming challenge. We have solutions.
We are borrowing from our children’s futures.Consumers want solutions.
“Let us remember, always, that we are the consumers. By exercising free choice, by choosing what to buy, what not to buy, we have the power, collectively, to change the ethics of the business of industry. We have the potential to exert immense power for good – we each carry it with us, in our purses, cheque books, and credit cards.”
-Jane Goodall, “A Reason for Hope”
We consume today at a rate 1.5 times greater than the Earth’s
capacity to regenerate the resources we use. By the year 2050, we
will need the equivalent of two Earths to support our insatiable
demand for natural resources.
In an industrialized nation, the carbon footprint of one person can
exceed 19 tonnes per year. Putting that into perspective…
the United States will be responsible for emitting more carbon than a person living in Tanzania will in an entire lifetime.
Our efforts to reduce consumption will never completely eliminate
the heavy demands we place on the planet. But we can compensate
through replacement with environmental offset initiatives. That’s
where InfiniteEARTH’s expertise and leadership can help.
Our solutions empower consumers and increase long-term brand
relevance through consumer-funded customer loyalty programs at
a time when consumers are more mindful that individual choices
can have a collective environmental impact.
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1 YEARof the AVERAGE AMERICAN
CONSUMER’S EMISSIONS
is equivalent to:
1.87BILLION
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1,750ROOM
NIGHTSAT A FIVE-STAR
HOTEL
RUNNING A COMPUTER FOR
41YEARS
2,427PAIRS
OF SHOES
132FLIGHTS
fromNEW YORK
to MIAMI
3,137GALLONSOF GASOLINE
11,650LOADS
OF LAUNDRY
528,300CUPS
OF COFFEE
9,060STEAKDINNERS
875PAIRS OF
JEANS
* GE CO2 Usage Data 2013
InfiniteEARTH’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve was the first forest carbon project
in the world to receive triple-gold validation under the Climate Community and
Biodiversity Alliance Standard (CCBA), by demonstrating exceptionality in three
distinct areas:
In fact, we set the standard for REDD+ by developing the industry’s first
independently certified forest carbon accounting methodology and then
delivered the world’s first independently validated REDD+ project under
the Voluntary Carbon Standard.
We offer a wide range of programs including:
• Carbon-offset co-branded credit cards
• Corporate social environmental responsibility programs
• Consumer-involvement loyalty points programs
• Special offset and credit programs for palm-oil users and producers
And coming soon -- the world’s first multi-brand rewards platform where consumer
purchases earn rewards points redeemable for consumer involvement in a variety of
social development and conservation projects.
climate community biodiversity
Sustainability Solutions with a powerful PLUS
TRIPLEGOLDREDD+
The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation focuses its efforts in the 64,000
hectares (160,000 acres) Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve in Indonesia, which
InfiniteEARTH developed and manages. Rimba Raya’s ecosystem forms a critical
buffer zone to the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to the world famous Camp
Leakey Orangutan Research Center and one of the world’s largest and last wild
populations of endangered orangutans.
InfiniteEARTH and the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation are working closely to
protect and preserve this iconic endangered species through their ongoing financial
support of Orangutan Foundation International – funding made possible by the sale
of InfiniteEARTH carbon credits and environmental offsets.
Vanishing species are nature’s reminder
Your carbon offset or biodiversity offset purchase will help support
Bornean Orangutan.
19SPECIESdisappear from the planet…every day. *
*UN Environment Programme
Orangutan Foundation International
InfiniteEARTH markets triple-gold certified REDD+ carbon credits
on a wholesale basis for organizations seeking to address their
carbon emissions footprint with a world-class and highly accredited
offset initiative.
For marketers facing carbon and biodiversity footprint challenges
unique to their industry, InfiniteEARTH markets wholesale offsets and
credits to mitigate special issues such as deforestation and associated
biodiversity loss related to palm oil and paper & packaging industries.
Cardholders will receive a co-branded corporate credit card.
Purchases earn reward points redeemable for planting trees; for the
adoption, feed and care of orangutans; and for providing local forest-
dependent communities benefits such as health, education and more.
The world’s first multi-brand rewards platform where consumer
purchases earn rewards points redeemable for consumer involvement
in a variety of social development and conservation projects.
Carbon Credit or Biodiversity Offset Program to Match Your Needs.
Wholesale Credit & Offset
Programs
Credit & Offset Programs
Co-Branded Credit & Offset
Credit Cards
The
Multi-Brand
Platform
36/F Tower Two, Times Square
1 Matheson Street
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
+852-2682-6321
www.infinite-earth.com
Our current global population of 7 billion will double to 13 billion by the year 2090, all in the span of one
person’s lifetime. And, with nearly 4 billion people in the developing world moving from subsistence to mass
consumerism, it is unrealistic to think we can slow the rate of global consumption, let alone reduce it.
While we agree wholeheartedly with reduction efforts, we believe that, in the absence of immediate viable
solutions, we should at least attempt to offset what we cannot reduce. To that end, we’ve challenged ourselves
to focus on solutions that replace more than we have taken and that produce immediate results TODAY.
Sustainable Forest Management REDD+ projects pursue long-term strategies for addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and
degradation. Such long-term programs include providing fuel efficient cook-stoves, development of
bio-efficient farming systems and other strategies for the sustainable management of existing forest stocks.
Enhancement of Native Carbon StocksPrograms to maximize carbon preservation levels include reforestation of degraded areas with native cash
crop species and other strategies aimed at enhancing existing natural forest stocks and its sustainable use and
management by local communities.
Community DevelopmentInfiniteEARTH’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Foundation funds a number of programs, many staffed by local
villagers, including delivering access to clean water, health-for-conservation exchanges, early childhood educa-
tion, a community staffed Park & Fire Ranger Service and micro-credit programs.
Wildlife ConservationThe Tropical Peat Swamp Forests of Borneo are one of the few remaining natural habitats of the endangered
orangutan, which is listed on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of En-
dangered Species. The Rimba Raya Reserve provides the largest privately managed reserve in the world for
the release of wild born, previously captive orangutans back into their natural habitat.
Five principles we live by. REDD+
Carbon neutral and sustainability are simply not enough. The future generations of this planet deserve more. Your customers demand more.
While there may still be skeptics about global warming, nobody denies
that mass deforestation of our tropical rainforests is happening on a global
scale and at an unprecedented rate. Every year, the world loses 15 million
hectares/150,000 km2 (37 million acres/58,000 square miles) of forest lands.
This loss contributes to over 1 billion tonnes of carbon output, the single largest
contributor of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases.
The ancient Tropical Peat Swamp Forests of Borneo not only store the world’s
highest densities of carbon but also host some of the world’s most biodiverse
habitats, with as many as 1,000 plant and animal species per square kilometer.
The Rimba Raya Reserve protects 640 square kilometers (250 square miles)
of these rare forests and provides a patrolled buffer zone between the Tanjung
Puting National Park and the encroaching palm oil industry.
37m acres are deforested every
year across the globe.*
Flagship Source for REDD+Carbon Credits.Global deforestation continues at the alarmingrate of 1 acre per minute.
*UN FAO
InfiniteEARTH’s BeyondSustainable™ Palm Oil Offset Certificates provide carbon
replacement offsets to the environmental footprint associated with the production
of palm oil.
How the program works:
One BeyondSustainable™ Palm Oil Offset Certificate offsets the environmental
footprint of 1 tonne of palm oil. The environmental footprint is calculated in terms
of carbon emissions related to deforestation and other environmental impacts
related to the area of natural forest lost due to conversion.
Carbon calculations are based on an average of 60 tonnes of CO2e per hectare (148.26
tonnes of CO2e per acre) per year divided by an average production rate of 4 tonnes
of palm oil per hectare per year. This amounts to a total of 15 tonnes of CO2e per tonne of palm oil produced. Forest area loss calculations are based on 1 hectare
per 4 tonnes of palm oil production per year.
Therefore, one BeyondSustainable™ Palm Oil Offset Certificate offsets 1 tonne of
palm oil and pays for the conservation of 2,500 m2 (1/4 hectare or nearly 2/3 acre) of
biodiverse tropical forest for one year and for the emissions avoidance of 15 tonnes of
CO2e.
98% of Indonesian forests will be
cleared by 2022 for palm oil
plantations.*
Special Offset Solutions for Palm Oil Users and Producers
*UNEP 2007
InfiniteEARTH’s Biodiversity Offsets underwrite the conservation efforts of 1 hectare (2.54
acres) of biodiverse tropical forest containing over 100 endangered, threatened or at-risk
species, including the highly endangered Bornean Orangutan.
Habitat loss is the primary cause of species extinction. Orangutans are particularly
vulnerable. As an arboreal species, they rely of a vast network of forest canopy in order to
search for jungle fruit. Many are now isolated on fragmented island forests surrounded by a
sea of palm oil. Many will starve to death while fruiting trees lie just beyond their reach.
InfiniteEARTH only receives carbon credits from part of the 64,000 hectares (158,150 acres)
that constitutes the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve. A large portion of the reserve lies
outside the official “carbon accounting area”, which means we subsidize the conservation of
that additional area.
Your purchase of InfiniteEARTH Biodiversity Offsets ensures that this iconic species has a
safe habitat into which some three hundred wild born orphaned orangutans at the Orangutan
Foundation International Care Center can eventually be released back into the wild.
Biodiversity Offset Programs
50%Percentage decline in the
wild orangutan population
in less than 20 years.*
“Rimba Raya is one of the most important Orangutan conservation projects in the world. It represents nothing less than the promise of survival for the endangered Orangutan.”
-Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas.
*Orangutan Foundation International
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www.infinite-earth.com