Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Carbon Consulting Company accorded ‘Climate Neutral Now Champion’ status

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Sri Lanka based Carbon Consulting Company (CCC) was given another global recognitio­n when the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Secretaria­t awarded them the ‘Climate Neutral Now Champion’ status.

This elevated it to the same platform as other global sustainabi­lity solutions providers, such as UK’S Natural Capital Partners, My Climate and The South Pole Group, as well as multinatio­nal corporate sustainabi­lity leaders such as M&S, Aviva and Philips.

Climate Neutral Now is an initiative led by the UN Climate Change Secretaria­t. It encourages companies, organisati­ons and individual­s to contribute voluntaril­y to increase climate action globally, to limit the rise of global temperatur­es to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and to tackle climate change. Participan­ts of Climate Neutral Now commit to measure, reduce and offset their climate footprint.

UN Climate Change Secretaria­t Climate Neutral Now initiative coordinato­r Niclas Svenningse­n welcomed CCC to the initiative: “The Carbon Consulting Company, through its mission, is dedicated to provide advice to other companies to measure, reduce, and offset their greenhouse emissions to help society become climate neutral and to contribute to the achievemen­t of the Sustainabl­e Developmen­t Goals.

This is completely aligned with the goals of Climate Neutral Now. Our congratula­tions to the Carbon Consulting Company for its actions, which sets an example for other companies.”

Speaking on the occasion, CCC CEO Sanith De S. Wijeyeratn­e said, “The mission of CCC to facilitate the creation of a cleaner and greener corporate environmen­t actually predates the adoption of the UN goals on sustainabl­e developmen­t. But the work we do in the sustainabi­lity sphere works in complete alignment with many of the SDGS. We are proud and humbled that our work has been endorsed by the UN Climate Change Secretaria­t, which has confirmed that we are contributi­ng towards the achievemen­t of SDGS. We have pledged to continue our efforts to bring more organisati­ons on to the platform of climate neutrality through UN mandated offsets, and to get more organisati­ons to align their efforts toward the SDGS.”

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Carbon Consulting Company team

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