BAPC chairman, Sidney Bobb, said: 'As an industry body we have a duty to act responsibly when it comes to the environment.
This year our conference is taking the lead and we've been working with co2balance.com to reduce the impact of the event and offset unavoidable emissions.' He said that co2balance.com aims to help businesses minimise their carbon emissions and offset the unavoidable residue.
Offsetting works by investing funds in sequestration, or energy efficiency projects that absorb or prevent the release of a tonnage of CO2 equivalent to a company's carbon footprint.
Bobb explained: 'With so many schemes to choose from it is important to find one that will accurately measure your CO2 emissions and then determine how to reduce and offset them through projects that are both ethical and credible.
In the case of the conference this will be by planting trees in Tinners Forest, near the Cornish village of Roche.' And he continued: 'We are delighted that, to the best of our knowledge, this will be the first CarbonZero conference for the printing industry.'
Website: http://www.bapc.co.uk/index.cfm?content=1&menu=1
Event Date: 02/11/2007
Event Location: Marlow