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Interface Helps Fund Clean Air-Cool Planet Study: Providing Education & Guidance on Carbon Offsets
Submitted by Bill Becker on 12/Dec/2006
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ATLANTA (December 6)
In keeping with its Mission Zero™ promise to eliminate any negative impact that it may have on the environment by 2020, Interface, Inc., a world leader in the commercial interiors industry, has joined ClifBar, Inc. and Stonyfield Farm, Inc. to sponsor a report by Trexler Climate + Energy Services (TC+ES) of Seattle. The report, entitled "A Consumers Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers", was commissioned by Clean Air-Cool Planet and released on December 5.
This first-of-its-kind report evaluated over 30 companies that currently provide retail carbon offset credits in the U.S., rating them against seven key criteria including
(i) the providers prioritization of offset quality,
(ii) their ability to transparently evaluate the offset quality,
(iii) transparency in the providers operations and offset selection,
(iv) the providers understanding of the technical aspects of offset quality,
(v) the providers policies for educating consumers about global warming and global warming policies,
(vi) the ancillary sustainability benefits of the
various offset portfolios, and
(vii) the use of third party certifications and protocols.
Interfaces sponsorship of this report helps further its Mission Zero goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero through internal carbon reductions and the purchase of carbon offsets. The sponsorship also reflects Interfaces commitment to help others do the same.
The full report is available on this web site:
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/ConsumersGuidetoCarbonOffsets.pdf
About Clean Air-Cool Planet
Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is a science-based, non-partisan, non-profit organization that creates partnerships in the U.S. Northeast to implement
solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions.
CA-CP partners with companies, campuses, communities and science centers throughout the Northeastern United States to help reduce their carbon emissions. They help their partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global
warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.
They showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change, and they advocate the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state and regional levels, all the while working to build support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers regional Climate Change Action Plan.
About Interface, Inc.
Atlanta-based Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA), is a global leader in the manufacture of environmentally-responsible floorcoverings and other textiles, through its Bentley Prince Street®, InterfaceFABRIC™, InterfaceFLOR™, and FLOR™ product brands. The company is committed to giving the marketplace a wide range of choices for specifying Earth-friendly and Environmentally Preferable Product-certified products, with the industrys first climate neutral carpet, Cool Carpet™, and the only carpet product designed using the principle of biomimicry, the i2™ collection from InterfaceFLOR Commercial. FLOR offers residential carpet products created from a rapidly renewable, corn-based polymer (polylactic acid - PLA) and InterfaceFABRICs Terratex® commercial panel and upholstery fabric is made from fibers containing 100% post-consumer recycled polyester or 100% rapidly renewable PLA. For more information, visit
www.interfaceglobal.com
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