Home About Us Moving to the Low Carbon Economy Who We Are Carbon Neutral Vehicle Leasing and Asset Finance How We Work Benefits Financial Products Who We Finance Businesses Reducing Their Environmental Impact Businesses in the Green Sector What We Finance Carbon Neutral Car Leasing Carbon Neutral Van Leasing Carbon Neutral Micro-Car Finance Carbon Neutral Hybrid Vehicle Leasing Zero Emission Vehicles - Electric Cars Zero Emission Vehicles – Electric Vans and Commercial Vehicles Renewable Energy Technology Finance Wind Turbine Finance Packages – Domestic and Light Commercial Carbon Neutral Asset Finance Who We Support Work For Us Contact Us Environmental Links Carbon Neutral Vehicle Leasing and Asset Finance Bridgegreen offset CO2 emissions for the duration of all vehicle contracts. Our asset finance also includes carbon offsetting, which we believe is unique in the UK market. more Carbon Neutral Vehicle Leasing and Asset Finance Bridgegreen offset the CO2 emissions for the vehicle and asset finance packages we provide. Vehicles are acknowledged as being one of the biggest contributors to global CO2 emissions (around 25% of the total) and this has been the stimulus to offer this feature. We believe that we are unique in providing this, at no cost to our customers, across the board. We are still going to be reliant on fossil fuels for some time to come, to provide raw materials and power our vehicles and our homes, and therefore we will still have unavoidable emissions of CO2. This has been the stimulus for the use of carbon offsetting and for the rapid growth of the carbon trading market under the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Carbon credits, from improvements in the efficiency of energy generation or the development of renewable energy projects for example, can be sold to businesses or individuals that are required, either through regulation or voluntarily choose, to offset their CO2 emissions. Carbon offsetting is a useful first step for businesses to take on the road to the low carbon economy. It stimulates the development of low carbon technologies, such as renewable energy projects, and makes businesses and individuals think more carefully about the emissions that they are responsible for. It can also enhance the green credentials of the businesses that adopt it. It is however only a first step and should not be considered as a 'cure all'. Bridgegreen are striving to ensure that at the same time as offsetting their CO2 emissions, our customers are also striving to make choices that limit their emissions in the first place, and Bridgegreen are their to assist in these choices. Bridgegreen work with The Carbon Consultancy (www.carbonresponsible.com) which invests in UK based carbon offsetting projects such as the creation of new woodland, investments in renewable energy and the retirement of carbon credits. Woodland is one of the planet’s most efficient carbon storage systems, whilst the use of renewable energy saves emissions that would otherwise be created by fossil fuel based energy generation. The retirement of carbon credits helps to increase their cost. The higher their cost, the less companies are inclined to pollute. To find out more about how Bridgegreen can make your new vehicle acquisitions carbon responsible please contact us.