Public transport, re-filling water bottles and planting trees are all initiatives participants at the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (S.I.D.S) can choose to help make the meeting carbon neutral.
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Carbon neutral means taking as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as we put in, and it is often achieved through carbon offsetting.
With only two weeks to go, participants are urged to reduce resource consumption and minimize waste generation by sharing print copies, use recycled products, and separate wastes to help with recycling and reuse.
Women in Business Development is also leading the “Offset ISLANDS 2014” awareness and social media campaign to enlist the help of citizens around the world to offset the carbon emissions caused by the meeting. Participants are being asked to support this campaign.
“With Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme assistance and all the participants doing their part, I am sure that we will see us achieve this goal of carbon neutrality,” says executive director Adimaimalaga Tafuna’i.
“We are asking people to plant a tree, compost or mulch; post their picture or video on facebook.com/offsetISLANDS2014; then nominate five friends to do the same.”
Participants will also have the chance to plant trees as carbon offsetting at the Fuluasou Nature Reserve, which is next to the conference venue.
These trees will be added to the tally of trees planted in Samoa and overseas to offset the campaign.
In term of promotional print material, participants are urged to minimize the amount of promotional print materials at exhibition stands.
They should recycle or reuse promotional materials; and, when relevant, donate books and publications to local institutions, use biodegradable materials for any necessary exhibit material.
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