date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:15:02 -0000 from: "Tim O'Riordan" subject: Fw: From Tim O'Riordan to: "Simon Torok" , "Mike Hulme" Dear Simon and Mike, I have ben in touch with Future Forests over the carbon offset scheme which they are advocating. I have suggested we maght in Tyndall assist them in possibly validating the science behind this. I am planning to met them later in the monthand would welcome your views as to any possible tyndall involvement in this. Very best, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: [1]George Fowkes To: [2]T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk Cc: [3]Sue Welland ; [4]Jonathan Shopley Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:20 PM Subject: RE: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Tim Hi, Im George Fowkes the Operations Director here at FF. I source all our carbon projects (forestry or not) and also manage our Science Partners at ECCM. Sue has asked me to reply to your note in this capacity. Im not sure how deep you want to go wrt our sites, science and verification, so I attach here a couple of documents that illustrate aspects of what projects we use and how let me know if you want to go further. To start with all our projects, please find attached 3 slides indicating our sites and projects to date some 94 of them. 80 are forestry sites in the UK. The average site size has grown by a factor of 10 in the 2 years I have been in the business, so mercifully the number we sign up each year actually decreases. Our most popular international site is in India, with our pop stars taking the German and US sites in general. We have one technology project (Torren energy, biomass boiler conversions) in the UK; the rest of our technology projects are abroad, with all but one in developing/transition countries - as I write we are just finalising our first Eastern European deal an energy efficiency project in Ukraine to heat local schools. I can give you writeups on many of these if you would like. We have a set of eligibility criteria for both types of project, which we put potential projects through as they are presented to us. The criteria are centred around a concept of sustainability, in a carbon, environmental and social sense, and I attach the 2 current filter forms we use. For forestry projects we look for long-term schemes, >90% indigenous species and, in developing countries, a strong community content. Technology projects should promote a transition to a sustainable future which we dervie through a set of approved technologies. Then science. ECCM ([5]www.eccm.uk.com) currently set a number of key science policies for us: they write the protocol for the simple assessments we do ourselves; perform the more complex assessments we dont have the technical expertise to do; approve, calculate (UK) and validate (International) the carbon sequestered on forest/technology projects. They also run the database which allocates our carbon stocks against client requirements something that plays to their strengths and ensures no conflict of interest. Our carbon calculations are done on a tonne-carbon.year basis; luckily for ex-engineers like myself, at 100 the coefficient makes the offset at 99 years very similar to the average storage amount. I attach an ECCM paper that you may find rather basic; the references at the end of this note* might be of more interest. Finally, verification. Increasingly explicitly, we make a carbon promise to our clients that we are giving them an appropriate assessment, are contracting and retiring the right volume of offsets on their behalf from the right type of project, and that we are keeping an eye on these projects to make sure they deliver. About 18 months ago we made a decision that, instead of relying on a board of the great and the good to look over our shoulders, we would appoint a third party to verify that we were living up to our promises. We chose KPMG who did their first round of verification last March. They gave us a clean bill of health over the most important bits of the promise, and having made improvements we are again opening the company up to a round of stakeholder consultation at the end of the year. I hope this is a sufficient taster, and would be delighted to discuss further over the email or in person. I also note with interest your offer to connect us with the Tyndall Centre. Ill ask Jonathan to keep me posted on your call. With best wishes George Fowkes *The references to this methodology are: Enting, I.G. 2000 Comment on Quantification and regulation of carbon offsets from forestry: comparison of alternate methodologies with special reference to Chiapas, Mexico. International Forestry Review (2)1:54-56 Tipper, R. and de Jong, B.H. 1998 Quantification and regulation of carbon offsets from forestry: comparison of alternative methodologies, with special reference to Chiapas, Mexico. Commonwealth Forestry Review 77(3: 219-228. Tipper, R. and de Jong, B.H. 2000 Comment on Enting. International Forestry Review (2)1:56-58 A description of this methodology can also be found in Bass, S., Dubois, O., Moura Costa, P., Pinard, M., Tipper, R., and Wilson, C. 2000. Rural Livelihoods and Carbon Management. IIED Natural Resources Issues Paper No 1. -----Original Message----- From: Tim O'Riordan [mailto:T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 08 November 2002 12:10 To: Sue Welland Subject: Re: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Sue, I would be grateful if you would drop me an pasted email to let me know of all of your schemes, and also how they are scientifically validated. It is this latter point I would like to discuss with Jonathan and see if we cannot bring in the Tyndall Centre here in UEA in some way to assist you with this task. Very best, Tim O'Riordan ----- Original Message ----- From: [6]Sue Welland To: [7]Tim O'Riordan Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: RE: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Tim Just this morning an email I sent last week to you has bounced back. Apologies. Anyway, pls find below our bank details. Bank Natwest Address Paddington Branch, PO Box 2795, 26 Spring Street, London, W2 1WE Acc Name Future Forests Ltd Acc No 77039076 Sort Code 60-80-05 Perhaps I could speak to your secretary about working out the offset costs. Many thanks Sue Welland -----Original Message----- From: Tim O'Riordan [mailto:T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 30 October 2002 17:40 To: Sue Welland Subject: Fw: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Sue, I would like to pay you monthly or quarterly and need the contact addresses and pathways to your account to do so. Cheers, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: [8]Rosie Cullington To: [9]Tim O'Riordan Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: FW: From Tim O'Riordan -----Original Message----- From: Sue Welland [mailto:sue.welland@futureforests.com] Sent: 24 October 2002 14:15 To: [10]r.cullington@uea.ac.uk Cc: Paul Norrish; Jonathan Shopley Subject: FW: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Rosie I am following up on your email to Paul Norrish below. Thank you for deciding to make flights CarbonNeutral. Can I just clarify whether you mean that you want to give us Mr ORiordans airmiles (the points system) to offset his flights OR you want to offset his total air miles (ie flight miles). I think it is the latter, but could you confirm? If it is the latter, then I would suggest: · you send me a rough estimate of how many long and short haul trips Mr ORiordan takes per year (based on 2002, lets say) · I will then work out the annual cost, and you could arrange for this to be covered by an annual or quarterly direct debit · That you keep a tally of flights actually taken in 2003 (from where to where), and that at the end of 2003, FF works out the actual cost of annual offset and then bills Mr ORiordan for the balance (or refunds it) · I propose that the offset is achieved through the biomass project we have in India, but you are welcome to choose from any of the live projects listed on our web site. Many thanks. I look forward to hearing from you. Sue Welland Marketing Director ----- Original Message ----- From: [11]Rosie Cullington To: [12]paul.norrish@futureforests.com Cc: [13]Tim O'Riordan Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: From Tim O'Riordan Dear Paul Further to my correspondence, I do not wish to let go of my links to you and your organisation. If you are in South Africa during the week 1-6 February 2003, I may be able to get you access to a Business and Environment Course with which I am involved in Cape Town. The details are on the web ([14]www.cpi.cam.ac.uk). I do hope to hear from you and Jonathan. And I would like to pay a direct debit to your organisation to offer all my air miles. So if you could advise me on how to do this, I would be most grateful. Best wishes Tim **************************************** Rosie Cullington Faculty Secretary School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK Tel. +44 1603 592560 Fax. +44 1603 507719/507714 Email. r.cullington@uea.ac.uk Office Hours - 0830-1630 GMT/BST **************************************** Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Maps of FF forests.ppt" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\IR005LU v2.1 TD5 - Counting Carbon for Offset Purposes.pdf" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Site Enquiry and Filter Form V1.0.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Project Enquiry and Filter Form v1.0.doc"