Big Tree Climate Fund

About Big Tree Climate Fund

Big Tree Climate Fund utilizes the emerging emissions offset market as a catalyst for affirmative social and environmental transformation. We develop and offer carbon emissions offsets and RECs that proactively contribute to the mitigation of rapid climate change by working with smallholders and ecosystems throughout the world.

Big Tree Climate Fund became a B Corporation because the principles that form a B Corporation are a part of our founding principles -- to holistically approach our actions in business; to use our business as a means for social and environmental restitution; to become and initiate a new form of business into the world. The time has come for making it the legal responsibility of a company, to not only consider, but to institute its environmental and social impact, in accord with its fiduciary duties.

Together, BTCF and our customers accomplish this through a 4-pillar approach that encompasses environmental, social, cultural and financial means that compensate people fairly for the stewardship of their natural resources from which we all benefit. The founders of Big Tree Climate Fund represent 30+ years of cumulative experience in the fields of sustainable agro-forestry, organic agriculture, fair trade, community-building and environmental development. Having already achieved success using smallholder crops as tools for forest conservation, reforestation, and community empowerment in emergent countries, the founders continue to directly mitigate the environmental and social problems facing the world today with carbon offsets.

The Change We Seek™

Our goal is to harmonize humanity with nature, so all life may thrive. BTCF strives to use the carbon emission market as a means to drive awareness of the grave environmental problems facing our planet. By working with businesses and individuals to address and offset their carbon footprint, we are able to develop socially and environmentally sound programs that help restore ecosystems and assist communities with technologies that won't deplete their natural surroundings. We seek to restore Eden.

• We are furthering climate change awareness and promoting conservation methods to both the private and public sectors. Business plays a pivotal role in powering a sustainable campaign, and we make every effort to tap into this market presence.

• We are directly developing greenhouse gas offset-generating projects around the globe. We provide these offsets to private and public markets to raise awareness of the need to reduce carbon output and offset current emissions.

Big Tree Climate Fund

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Summary:

Certified: December 2008
  Points Earned % Points Available
Accountability » 11.8 89%
Employees » 21.1 63%
Consumers » 53.3 80%
Community » 16.5 23%
Environment » 13.3 100%
Composite B Score 116
  • >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
  • >60% points available = Area of excellence

Highlights:

From B Impact Assessment

Environment: >75% of office supplies come from recycled materials, >50% of carbon inventory offset, >50% of energy from renewable sources

Employees: >15% of net profits included in profit sharing plan, 4+ weeks vacation time

Community: >60% of expenditures directed toward local suppliers, >25% of suppliers located in low-income communities

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