Counting Sheep Campers in partnership with ClimateCare are proud to have offset 12.4 tonnes of the carbon generated in 2019 from our campervan holiday hire business, by offsetting its carbon emissions with projects that improve lives and fight climate change throughout the world.
As part of counting sheep campers ongoing commitment, started over 3 years ago. We are taking responsibility for our impact on the environment and have partnered with climate and sustainable development experts ClimateCare to offset the carbon emissions associated with taking a campervan holiday. As well as taking actions to reduce our footprint through unavoidable emissions which will be offset through projects including the multiple award-winning LifeStraw Carbon for Water Project, which delivers safe water to more than 4 million people in Kenya, generating significant carbon reductions and enhancing the health of local communities by reducing exposure to waterborne disease.
Other projects include the provision of clean cookstoves in Ghana, which significantly improve health while cutting emissions and reducing deforestation.
Counting sheep campers are delighted to work with ClimateCare who are experts in this field, with fifteen years’ experience running some of the most innovative and largest carbon offset programmes in the world. Working with them has helped us understand how we can integrate action to tackle climate change and improve people’s lives.
ClimateCare’s Head of Partnerships explains “We are working with a range of organisations, from international corporates, governments and NGOs to deliver innovative projects at an unprecedented scale. Our Climate+Care model helps organisations take a smart approach to addressing their environmental impacts by offsetting their carbon emissions and supporting sustainable development”.
Counting sheep campers are currently the only campervan hire company in the uk to offset its carbon footprint aswell as being a member of the Green Tourism association.