Carbon Offsetting
It is very dif
know that we must start doing something to alleviate what might become a catastrophic problem.
ficult to assimilate all the scientific and political opinion on climate change, but we all
Cantifix takes its responsibility very seriously and in the process of researching what can be
done, we were surprised to find that small, simple and relatively inexpensive measures can
produce significant reductions to CO2 emissions. For example. Four years ago, Cantifix took
the decision to install low energy glass in all its glazed products with a 36% resultant
reduction in energy loss and then reduced this by a further 12% with the introduction of
filled glazing units in 2006.
Argon
If everyone were to take small steps towards limiting their carbon output, then the global
benefits would be considerable.
Pilkington Group Plc calculates that by “replacing all single glazed windows in the UK with low
emissivity double glazing represents a potential saving of £638 million a year
of CO2 a year
year in and year out.”
. This is enough energy to heat every house in six cities the size of Birmingham,
. 9 million tonnes
In the whole of our product range we only use low emissivity double glazing and we improve on
the energy saving by filling the unit with argon gas, which increases the insulation properties.
Charlie Sharman, Director of Cantifix, in Rwanda with a friend.
Climate For Primates
Most of the world’
may become extinct over the next few
s endangered species
decades as warmer conditions alter the
forests, wetlands and rangelands they
depend on and human development
blocks them from migrating elsewhere.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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