The Environment

To reduce our impact on the climate, we are offsetting the carbon emissions from our business with Climate Care.

Climate Care is an organisation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions on behalf of companies and individuals by running projects across the world. As well as cutting greenhouse gases, the projects help to improve people’s standards of living and protect wildlife habitats.

To find out more about Climate Care and its projects, see www.climatecare.org.”

Climate Care runs a mix of projects that include sustainable energy and forest restoration projects across the world. Below are some examples of the work they do…

Clean stoves in Mexico

Our project is working in Mexico to make fuel-efficient cooking stoves available in some of the poorest communities. This supports conservation by reducing the wood needed for cooking. It also benefits the householders by removing smoke from the kitchen and dramatically cutting the health risk from wood smoke. Each stove saves about 3 tonnes of CO2 a year.

"My daughters now like to help me with the cooking because the Patsari stove does not make smoke"
Patsari stove owner, La Mojonera village.

Treadle pumps in India

In the Chhattisgarh region of India, irrigation is vital for farmers to grow crops outside the monsoon season, and ensure an income all year round. Many farmers have to rent diesel pumps at a significant cost to them. By using manual power instead of diesel, each treadle pump reduces diesel fuel use by 0.45 litres per hour on average, saving 0.65 tonnes of CO2 per year. Farmers have also seen their annual income double.

"This pump has lifted poverty from our valley"
Ram Dayal, farmer

Rainforest restoration in Uganda

We are funding part of a forest restoration programme in the Kibale National Park in Uganda. The project aims to re-create a rainforest canopy by planting and managing 30 species of local trees. The area is an important wildlife habitat – with one of the highest number of primate species in the world - and the project provides employment for local communities. The project is expected to save 400 tonnes per hectare of rainforest each year.

ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT

Jonas Consulting Ltd will control and manage its activities to ensure risks to the health, safety and welfare of its employees, customers and the general public are identified and action taken to minimise and wherever possible eliminate their effects.

Adverse effects of operational activities on the environment will be minimised as far as practicable.

The objectives of the policy are:

To comply with its legal obligations under the current Health, Safety and Welfare Act and the Environmental Protection Act, together with all other applicable statutory provisions and relevant codes of practice.

To promote health, safety and environmental awareness throughout the organisation.

 To maintain a safe and healthy working environment for all Jonas employees, with adequate facilities appropriate to the nature of the business activities.

To minimise the social impact of our activities and avoid damage to the environment through regular reviews of the business from environmental and management systems audits.

To undertake environmental impact studies as part of any company relocation or enlargement of existing facilities.