Jan 26, 2022 | Bridge News, General News

Bridge Help has started 2022 as a carbon neutral organisation, offsetting the entire carbon footprint of its employees– from flights and car journeys to staff lunches both at work and at home.

In just two months we have directly funded the planting of 508 trees across Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique as well as achieving a reduction in 34.44 tonnes of CO2.

Becoming carbon neutral has been made possible by Ecologi – an organisation which helps companies and individuals fund impactful climate solutions, plant trees, analyse carbon footprint, become climate positive, achieve carbon neutrality and much more.

Every member of the Bridge Help team has been registered with Ecologi and carbon credits aligned according to their lifestyle. By signing up to Ecologi, the team are all directly funding high-impact climate solutions.

Companies and organisations that have signed up to Ecologi to date have, together, funded the planting of an amazing 31,450,527 trees reducing 1,239,380 tonnes of CO2 to date in a drive to bring greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to net zero by 2050.

Becoming carbon neutral also supports the town in which our head office is based – Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where Chesterfield Borough Council has pledged to become a carbon neutral council by 2020 and a carbon neutral borough by 2050.

With team members, brokers and borrowers based throughout England and Wales, Bridge Help was an early adopter of Zoom video conferencing technology in order to minimise travel. A number of our staff members also drive electric cars.

Chris Sellars, Chief Executive of Bridge Help commented: “Prior to signing up to Ecologi, we made small steps in becoming a carbon neutral business however this has now been accelerated. What myself and the team particularly like about Ecologi, is that we are all offsetting our personal carbon output 24/7 whether we are working or not. It is something the whole team is passionate about and we’ll be taking further steps throughout 2022 and beyond to reduce our impact on the environment.

He added: “We’re a growing business and it’s important to us all that our impact on the environment does not also increase. As we welcome new members to the team, they’ll also be automatically be signed up to Ecologi.”

Despite the economic slowdown due to the pandemic, the highest ever atmospheric CO2 concentration (419 parts per million) was recorded in June 2021. With seven of the warmest years on record all occurring since 2014, the issue of climate change is increasingly pressing.

To find out more about Ecologi and how you can get involved, visit ecologi.com.  Or, to keep up to date with Bridge Help’s carbon offsetting journey, visit  https://ecologi.com/bridgehelp