Green energy firm Good Energy has launched a carbon neutral gas tariff to celebrate the signing this Friday of the UN Climate Change Agreement.
The new offering, partly made up from biomethane – or ‘green gas’ – is designed to make it easy for energy customers of the Chippenham-based business to take action against climate change.
Leaders nearly 150 countries will sign the agreement, made at the Paris climate conference last December, at a ceremony in New York on Friday. The agreement sets out measures to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2°C.
Good Energy founder Juliet Davenport, a climate change pioneer, said: “World leaders are making a huge promise in New York to take action against climate change.
“Emissions from energy are one of the biggest causes of global warming, and the simplest way to cut your footprint is switching to renewable electricity and carbon neutral gas. We can all do something to drastically cut our reliance on fossil fuels right now.”
Prof Joanna D Haigh, co-director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London said: “The Paris climate conference was an historic event in achieving the unanimous agreement of 195 countries that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“To have any chance of limiting global temperature rise to less than the 2°C agreed to represent a dangerous level we need to replace fossil fuels by low, or preferably zero, carbon sources as soon as possible. One way in which people can contribute to this is by switching to renewable energy suppliers.”
Good Energy’s new carbon neutral gas tariff will include 6% biomethane – gas produced from organic matter such as manure and sewage. Emissions from the gas used will be neutralised through verified carbon-reduction schemes that support local communities in Malawi, Vietnam and Nepal.
The offering compliments the firm’s 100% renewable electricity supply, which together give consumers a way to cut their personal carbon footprint by up to 50%.
Pictured: Good Energy CEO Juliet Davenport at Hampole wind farm near Doncaster (photo by kalory.co.uk)
