The Warehouse has partnered with Emirates Team New
Zealand to offset the team’s carbon emissions for its 36th
America’s Cup campaign.
The partnership will see
Emirates Team New Zealand become the first America’s Cup
syndicate to have a Toitū carbonzero certified
campaign.
The team’s emissions will be measured from
July 2017 to the end of their campaign in 2021 and offset
through investing in permanent native New Zealand forestry
projects, in partnership with Toitū Envirocare’s
carbonzero programme.
Further to this, the partnership
has supported tree planting programmes with Trees that Count
around the Firth of Thames, to help restore local waterways
and native flora and fauna.
The Warehouse founder and
Sustainability Champion, Sir Stephen Tindall says the
combination of The Warehouse and Emirates Team New Zealand
working together to play a part in combatting climate change
is a good example of business and sport coming together to
tackle such an important issue.
“The Warehouse and
Emirates Team New Zealand are dear to my heart and it gives
me great pride in seeing these two iconic Kiwi organisations
taking action on climate change.”
“Both
organisations have calculated their carbon footprints and
will continue on a journey to not only offset these in the
short term, but will use technology and innovation to
further reduce carbon and CO2 dramatically over the next
decade.”
“We hope other Kiwi businesses and sports
organisations will join us, as it is not as difficult as it
may seem.”
The Warehouse is part of the wider The
Warehouse Group, which is taking responsibility for its
impact on the environment. In 2019 the Group, also
compromising Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming,
TheMarket.com, 1-day.co.nz and Torpedo7 –
became the first large organisation in the country and third
major retailer in the world, to go carbon zero.
Chief
Executive Nick Grayston says it is a privilege to support
Emirates Team New Zealand with its environmental
efforts.
“We believe that good businesses need good
societies and environments to function
successfully.
“As a large New Zealand retailer with
millions of customers through our doors every year, we are
doing all we can to take responsibility for our impact on
the environment and to help New Zealanders address climate
change.
“Alongside Emirates Team New Zealand, we
hope to encourage more action in this area and continue to
do our part for the ongoing health of Kiwis, and the
planet.”
Emirates Team New Zealand Chief Executive
Grant Dalton says the team is pleased
to take this
step to measure and take responsibility for its emissions
with a long-term view of carbon reduction for New
Zealand’s natural environment.
“As a team that
spends so much of its time on the water, we have always been
conscious of our environment and doing what we can to
minimise our impact on it as best we can.
“We are
first to say we aren’t perfect by any stretch, but we are
prepared to measure our emissions. This is a step in taking
responsibility for the carbon footprint we create by
becoming carbonzero certified.”
“To be able to
work with The Warehouse as well as Toitū Envirocare to help
us measure and offset our emissions is something that means
a lot to everyone in the team.”
The carbon
neutrality status will be achieved through Toitū’s
carbonzero event certification programme. Toitū, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, has
based the carbonzero event programme on ISO 14064-1 and PAS
2050 principles. The campaign’s footprint has been
calculated, fully offset with high quality PFSI carbon
credits and independently certified as Toitū carbonzero
event operations.
Toitū Envirocare Chief Executive
Becky Lloyd commends Emirates Team New Zealand for their
leadership.
“We expect world-leading innovations
from Emirates Team New Zealand, so it’s only fitting they
are also taking world-leading climate action. It’s a
privilege to support Kiwi icons like The Warehouse and
Emirates Team New Zealand to take science-based, meaningful
climate action. Together we can show New Zealanders and the
world that our net zero future is achievable.”
The
scope of the certification includes all emissions associated
with Emirates Team New Zealand campaign related to the
preparation for the 36th America’s Cup Match (to be held
in Auckland between the 6th to the 21st of March 2021). The
estimated embodied emissions of the race boats are included
in the scope. The offsetting does not include any emissions
associated with the broader America’s Cup event organisers
or attendees but exclusively emissions associated with
Emirates Team New Zealand’s
campaign.
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