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CAREY SAN FRANCISCO SHIFTS ITS OPERATIONS TO CARBONNEUTRAL®
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 22, 2008:
Just as Earth Day began in San Francisco in 1970, Carey International, Inc. has chosen Earth Day and Carey San Francisco to announce that the company is expanding its partnership with The CarbonNeutral Company into North America.
"All companies have environmental impacts and the chauffeured transportation industry's heavy reliance on fossil fuels certainly has a greater impact than others," said Carey's President and CEO Gary Kessler in making the announcement. "Carey, as a leader in chauffeured transportation, has a responsibility to approach the subject of environmental conservation with careful consideration, transparency, and deliberate action. We began working with The CarbonNeutral Company in 2006, applying their approach to environmental mitigation to the operations of Carey's United Kingdom fleet. After nearly two years of positive effect, Carey International, Inc., is expanding its partnership with The CarbonNeutral Company to its North American operations, starting with Carey San Francisco. For Carey, environmental responsibility is more than adding a few hybrid vehicles to our fleet; it is a total, sustainable solution that will be represented by completely reducing Carey's carbon footprint to net zero, rather than a bullet point on a brochure."
The CarbonNeutral Company is the world's leading carbon offset and climate consulting business, working with over 300 businesses and 50,000 customer clients. The company helps clients apply a four-step approach to developing responsible and sustainable strategies to respond to global climate change. Over the past month, The CarbonNeutral Company has helped Carey San Francisco measure and reduce their CO2 emissions from vehicle operations, electricity use, business travel, employee commuting and landfill waste. To achieve CarbonNeutral® status the carbon footprint is neutralized to net zero through balancing the emissions in three global projects that produce emissions savings equal to those Carey San Francisco produces. As a result of that process, Carey San Francisco (as well as Carey UK) now has permission to display the CarbonNeutral® trademark, signifying that:
- Their CO2 emissions have been independently monitored
- One hundred percent (100%) of their emissions have been reduced to net zero through a mix of internal and external carbon-reduction efforts
"The goal of this partnership is to effectively neutralize Carey's impact on the environment," said Carey San Francisco's Vice President and General Manager, Luis Galindo. "Our unique position is that we recognize the need to mitigate the harm that we are causing today as we implement our own company-wide reduction strategy for tomorrow."
Mark Armitage, President US, The CarbonNeutral Company, commented, "Businesses needs to take responsibility for their climate footprint. And for the earlier adopters, facing up to the challenge will deliver clear commercial benefits as well as environmental good. Carey is a perfect example where not only being CarbonNeutral® is part of their corporate social responsibility but it is becoming an integral part of their global business strategy."
About Carey International
Carey International is the world's premier provider of limousine services and luxury ground transportation with locations in over 550 cities and 65 countries. Since 1921, the Carey brand has represented uncompromising reliability and impeccable professionalism, safety, security and quality. Carey provides a full range of chauffeured services, including luxury airport limousine services as well as transportation for road shows, special events, and tours. Certified professional chauffeurs, a state-of-the-art fleet of luxury vehicles and an industry-leading quality assurance program, set the standard for luxury limousine and executive car services. Carey also has the only Meeting and Events division in the chauffeured transportation industry, providing end-to-end event transportation and meeting management services including planning, logistics, on-site coordination and centralized billing. For more information, please visit www.carey.com.
About The CarbonNeutral Company
The CarbonNeutral Company is the world's leading carbon offset and climate consulting business, working with over 300 businesses and 50,000+ consumer clients. CarbonNeutral® is the registered trademark of The CarbonNeutral Company (TCNC) and is the leading brand mark and quality standard for action on climate change. Permission to display the CarbonNeutral mark is only given to clients of TCNC when global warming emissions have been measured, reductions recommended, and the remaining emissions 'offset' in accordance with the CarbonNeutral Protocol. This Protocol assures quality of offset projects, and carbon footprint assessments and is regularly reviewed by an Independent Advisory Group. The 'audit trail' includes an annual independent verification of CarbonNeutral programs—from contract with carbon offset partner through to contract with client and everything in between.
For more information please go to www.carbonneutral.com.
For More Information Contact:
Jacob Shepich
847-376-6126
jacob.shepich@carey.com
