1. Who Are ECO?
Information Supplied By ECO Carbon Offsets
Why Was ECO Established?
ECO was established by a group of people who have a deep love of the environment and its
numerous lifeforms and wish to see it protected. The environment is under enormous pressure
from human population growth and the resultant waste from an industrial society. The human
race took over 100,000 years to reach a population of 1.5 billion people in 1900. It has taken
just 112 years to add another 5.5 billion people and reach 7 billion by 2012.
ECO believes that It is time to learn from our mistakes and work out how to live harmoniously
with nature.
ECO’s Underlying Beliefs
There is only one World on which we Humans live – planet Earth
Better not to destroy the Environment of this world since our Survival depends on it.
The downside risks of environmental damage are so high, that it is better to take
remedial measures now, rather than fail to take precautions and leave ourselves
exposed to the risk.
What Do ECO Do?
ECO is a combination of a Management Consultancy business and an agricultural-based
Carbon Brokerage business.
ECO is a group of qualified and experience professionals, who all share the same passionate
vision, namely:
To restore a healthy environment to the planet. This includes, land; rivers, sea; species
habitats; sustainable food sources; and, of course, a healthy bio-atmosphere.
We believe that ‘Time is of the Essence’ in many of these areas.
We believe that the most effective way to achieve these aims is through a commercial
1/4

2. approach.
Consequently, our people have experience ranging from agronomy; and native vegetation
experience; – through to carbon farming; carbon consulting; and providing carbon offsets; –
through to commercial skills such as: senior management; marketing; legal; IT; and accounting.
ECO regard this combination of skills as a necessary prerequisite in order for ECO to provide
effective services in the following 3 areas:
Help organisations measure and reduce their carbon footprint
Sell tree-based Carbon Offsets to industry and commerce.
Assist landowners meet carbon farming standards
ECO’s Business Philosophy
ECO’s Philosophy is:
(i) Plant Trees to Absorb CO2. Trees have a proven record of absorbing (or sequestering)
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the course of their lifetime. Most of this carbon
sequestration, in a plantation environment, takes place within the first 40 years of the tree’s
growth.
(ii) Bio-Diverse Plantations (and not Mono Plantings) – ECO’s policy is to establish a
bio-diverse plantation of native trees of local species with a seed bank collected within 5
kilometers of the site. Unlike Monoculture, such woodlands are less susceptible to
mono-diseases and they also restore the land to its original mix of vegetative species.
(iii) Protecting the Trees for a Minimum of 100 Years: ECO protect the Trees via a Legally
Registered Forest Property Agreement. This is an Agreement, entered into between ECO and
the Landowner, validated under the Forest Property Act, so that the Trees are protected and
cannot be cut down for over 100 years. By which time the tree will have sequestered /absorbed
their optimum level of carbon dioxide. The Forest Property Act was enacted to allow
landowners who plant compliant trees to own the carbon rights contained in their trees as a
separate and distinct property right from their property right on the land – subject to a Forest
Property Agreement. Under the Agreement the landowner undertakes to protect the trees and
not to cut them down. This binds all future owners in Fee Simple. This is an important provision
because it provides security to Emitters of greenhouse gases who are purchasing the rights to
the carbon dioxide sequestered
2/4

3. (iv) Marginal Land: ECO use only those areas of Marginal Land on farms, and Not their
Prime Productive Land. Marginal land can be found on most farms in Australia and can occur
even on land that is in good rainfall zones. Some estimates suggest that up to 20% of a
landowner’s property may not be suitable for cropping or grazing because of poor soil
conditions. Such marginal land may be found on productive agricultural land which has zones of
lime stone; rocky ground; or ground composed of sandy/shifting soil.
(v) Food Security: is a key principle. Prime land needs to be preserved for food production.
Food security is one of the major issues that is currently facing the world as we grow from the
current level of 7 Billion people in 2011/12 to over 10 Billion people by 2050. This massive
increase of 3 billion people in les than 40 years is literally an astronomical population explosion
– given that it had taken the whole of mankind’s previous existence on planet Earth to reach 1.5
Billion people in the year 1900. Feeding all of these mouths will require wise use of all available
land. Hence there is an urgent need to conserve and protect good agricultural land.
Accordingly, ECO do not use and do not support the use of prime agricultural land for the
growing of trees for carbon offset purposes.
(vi) Commercial Principles: Forests need to be funded. The funding can come from the sale
to Businesses of the carbon offsets produced by the trees. In this manner, economic principles
can be married with environmental objectives. ECO believes that if a human solution is to be
found to the issues of Climate and Environmental Change, then it needs to incorporate
commercial & political forces if it is to achieve a critical mass.
1. For Landowners, this means that they can generate ‘off farm’ income by setting aside
a portion of their land to grow native vegetation for carbon offset purposes.
2. For Business, this means being able to certify to your clients the size of your carbon
footprint and also to provide certificated evidence that you have offset your carbon
emissions
(vii) The Purchase of Carbon Offsets by Businesses should be the Very Last Step in
offsetting CO2 Emissions.
ECO’s philosophy is that business should firstly reduce their carbon emissions footprint before
even considering the purchase of carbon offsets to abate their emissions. This also reduces the
operating costs of a business. Not only is this the financially cheaper option, it is also the most
environmentally effective one. Only when everything else has been done to reduce your current
carbon emissions resulting from operating the business, should a business purchase carbon
credits to OFFSET its emissions. An up-front purchase of carbon offsets – without a Change
Management program to reduce those emissions – is financially wasteful to your business and
environmentally damaging. In other words, firms should only offset those emissions that are
3/4

4. inevitable in the sustainable conduct of your business – after everything else has been done to
reduce them and all other avenues to reduce GHG emissions have been implemented. This is
why we say – “Becoming CARBON NEUTRAL can be COST NEUTRAL”. It can be self
funding!
LET US SHOW YOU HOW
Related articles
What Does ECO Carbon Offsets Do? (ecocarbonoffsets.com.au)
Eco Carbon Offsets: Press Release (ecocarbonoffsets.com.au)
Eco Carbon Offsets
We Measure Your Carbon Footprint & Provide Carbon Offsets Through Carbon Farming
For More Info...Click Here... http://ecocarbonoffsets.com.au
4/4
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)