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We are pleased to announce that our Land Use and Forestry specialist Andreas Schnall is teaching a seminar at the Technical University Cologne during the summer semester 2018 with the subject “Sustainable charcoal supply chain”. The seminar is part of the master degrees program for renewable energy management, natural resources management and integrated water resources management at the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics. Background for the topic is the growing demand for energy in developing countries, and their governments’ goal to produce more energy. Due to the increasing demand for energy it is necessary to generate more energy with... Read More

Meet Andreas Schnall, head of the Land Use and Forestry department at the World Cocoa Conference in Berlin, Germany. Andreas Schnall, an expert in the development of agroforestry projects and sustainable supply chains, will be attending the World Cocoa Conference at 22-25 April. The fair is established as the leading event for global cocoa sector, bringing together major players from the value chain, from all over the world. The list of over 1500 participants includes experts from over 64 countries, drawn from government agencies, chocolate manufacturers, trading companies, cocoa processors, and companies involved in trade logistics, finance and insurance as... Read More

In 2017, our team joints the manifold fieldwork at project sites in Panama, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Moreover, we expanded our activities in arid countries like Egypt and Pakistan where we pursue strategies of sustainable afforestation in line with social and ecological conditions. Regular field visits and meetings with our partners and local stakeholders are important in order to guarantee the success and sustainable impact of our projects in the context of afforestation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable cocoa and timber production. To reduce our carbon footprint in terms of long distance travels, part of our team is... Read More

Meet our team at the conference „Grow To Zero 2018 – Sustainable Solutions for a Prosperous Planet“ hosted by the Gold Standard certification body on 18-19 April 2018 in Berlin. Talk with us about corporate environmental and climate action, carbon neutral business strategies, climate smart land use and deforestation free supply chains. If you like to get in touch in advance or during the event send an email to info@co2ol.de. More information about the conference you can find here: www.goldstandard.org/blog-item/grow-zero-2018-gold-standard-conference/

We are pleased to announce our partnership with the DQS Sustainability Conference 2018 “Sustainability Heroes”, and to enable DQS CFS GmbH German Association for Sustainability, the host, to organise it as a carbon neutral event. The conference will take place on March 11, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main. More than hundred experts from Germany and abroad are expected to participate. Main subjects of this year’s conference will be sustainable procurement, the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) in supply chain management, low-budget sustainability for small and medium-sized enterprises and the current status in sustainability reporting. The conference also presents the “German... Read More