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August 21, 2024
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Last week at our 3rd Annual Offsetter Event we celebrated 4 years of generating certified forest carbon offsets with our customers some who have been active supporters from day one, while others are new to the benefits of offsetting.
This year the event evolved from a small gathering of offsetters receiving their awards to include an afternoon panel discussion led by some of the industry’s most respected experts. The discussions explored the importance of land rights and resource ownership to the conservation of landscapes as well as the business case for engaging in conservation and Responsible Tourism.
What became clear from the discussion was the motivation from Tanzanian tour operators to minimise their environmental impact. Employees from large lodges to small owner/operator tour companies shared ideas on how to minimise their impact without stretching the budget and that it makes business sense to do so.
In 2010 Carbon Tanzania started selling the carbon offsets generated from the newly developed REDD+ project in the Yaeda Valley. At the time The Map’s Edge, a local tour operator with a strong emphasis on responsible tourism, was looking at multiple ways to reduce their environmental impact. The company ethos is that every little effort helps and they engage in both small activities such as minimising paper use in the office as well as activities that have a larger impact such as reducing the number of plastic bottles used on safaris and offsetting carbon emissions. When they discovered they could offset their emissions and support local forest conservation and the forest communities, they quickly became Carbon Tanzania offsetters. Now 6 years later they not only led the discussion on the business case for responsible tourism but also won the 2015 Carbon Tanzania Offsetter Award for their continued dedication to protecting both the local and global environment. It is the support of such companies that ensure the continued protection of some of Tanzania’s most threatened forests and has allowed Carbon Tanzania to expand the pilot project from 20,790 hectares to over 32,000 hectares of protected land.
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Director of Operations
David is a dedicated conservationist with both an excellent academic record and extensive field experience in designing and implementing practical conservation and agricultural project work. At Carbon Tanzania, he oversees the highly technical aspects of project operations, while also using his interpersonal and language skills to communicate the many and complex details of our projects to our partner communities and field collaborators.
Director of Finance
Alpha is a Certified Public Accountant with a degree in accountancy and finance. Alpha is responsible for overseeing all the finance and accounting systems both within the company and across our projects. Alpha’s work with the communities also ensures that they are able to plan the financial management and implement best practices in the allocation of the revenues from their successful natural resource protection activities.
Co-founder
Marc oversees project operations, often in the field as well as from the Arusha base, and leads the search to find and develop new areas where our approach can deliver lasting results. As a co-founder of Carbon Tanzania, maintaining a connection with the landscapes in which Carbon Tanzania works is critical to Marc.
Co-founder
After an established career as one of East Africa’s leading professional outdoor, trekking and wildlife guides, Jo co-founded Carbon Tanzania. Jo’s focus is to ensure business sustainability through financial management and sales, and to ensure that the company has the financial capacity to scale when opportunities arise.