Isramart : Carbon Offset Your Business at RSNA 2009 with Schaef SystemTechnik’s Carbon Credits

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Schaef SystemTechnik GmbH seeks to help businesses in the medical IT sector impact upon their contribution to global warming through the provision of carbon credits, and is symbolising their commitment at this year’s Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago. Carbon credits will be available in the form of certificates representing ownership of olive trees planted in South Africa by a company called Carbon Credit Tree Africa, and all visitors to Schaef SystemTechnik’s stand at RSNA 2009 will receive a free tree in the name of their choice.

London UK (PRWEB) November 25, 2009 — In the ever-intensifying fight against global warming carbon credits have emerged as a simple yet effective weapon. They enable organisations to decrease their impact on the environment without altering business practices. At the RSNA 2009 General meeting and Scientific Assembly, Schaef SystemTechnik will be providing an opportunity to carbon offset the emissions of attendees and will be giving away carbon credits in the form of trees planted in the name of choice of the first 1000 visitors to their booth.

Schaef SystemTechnik believes that global warming can only be impacted upon if positive steps are taken in all industry sectors and believes that the RSNA 2009 meeting, as the preeminent professional radiology event in the world, is the perfect platform on which to deliver this important message. In addition, an innovative scheme to provide X-ray facilities to people in remote African locations is being developed as described below, and details of this will also available at the event.

Schaef SystemTechnik is a company focussed not only on making the medical IT industry more aware of its environmental impact but also on providing solutions to the highlighted problems. In partnering with Carbon Credit Tree Africa, whose tree plantations act as safe havens for Aids orphans, they have put in place a strategy to do just that and invite all attendees at RSNA 2009 to come and share in their vision.

Statistics show that a single computer can produce as much as two tonnes of carbon dioxide every year whereas a single tree can remove up to three tonnes from the atmosphere over its lifetime. Schaef SystemTechnik’s initial agreement with Carbon Credit Tree Africa consists of the cultivation of 1000 trees representing a significant investment in the reduction of global warming.

Besides the removal of atmospheric carbon during photosynthesis, such trees will also help reduce other types of air pollution, recycle water, generate oxygen and control local soil erosion, all of which compounds their positive environmental impact.

Planting trees has long been identified as an effective carbon offsetting strategy and is accepted by the Kyoto Protocol as such. For medical IT companies the ability to purchase the carbon credits offered at RSNA 2009 has the dual benefit of reducing environmental impact whilst raising their environmental profile. In addition, Carbon Credit Tree Africa offers more than a carbon offsetting opportunity; they also provide an incredible multifaceted environmental and social return on investment, as is explained further below.

The African company has a sustainable business model in every sense of the word but also goes above and beyond a carbon credit business. The trees planted not only reduce atmospheric carbon during their lifetime but are also used to further offset emissions once matured. Olive trees planted in the company’s Western Cape property in South Africa will, for example, also produce olive oil as a replacement for diesel and biogas burned in place of natural gas.

The company also offsets its own emissions through planting trees and provides information on how customers may decrease emissions in other ways. The tree plantations it owns and manages are designed as safe, healthy habitats where Aids orphans can live and work meaning that any carbon credits purchased through Schaef SystemTechnik will be of both environmental and humanitarian benefit.

Carbon Credit Tree Africa is the very definition of a socially and environmentally aware business and the possibility to positively impact a company’s effect on global warming by partnering with them is one that should not be easily overlooked.

The environmental commitment exhibited by the Germany-based Schaef SystemTechnik also ext further than the facilitation of carbon credits. They have an agreement in place with innovative solar energy company SolarBotanic that will enable women in remote African villages access to X-ray scanning equipment.

SolarBotanic has developed next-generation solar products in the form of artificial trees that utilise a combination of nanotechnologies to capture energy in the form of heat, light and wind resulting in renewable, highly efficient and aesthetically pleasing electricity generation.

By creating X-ray scanning facilities powered by solar trees, SolarBotanic and Schaef SystemTechnik will provide people in remote areas the access to a technology they may never have used before, using electricity generated by a completely renewable source. The ability to engage in such humanitarian activity with the provision of a technology that is renewable and carbon neutral is in line with Schaef SystemTechnik’s environmental outlook and further emphasises their commitment to fight global warming.

If yours is one of a growing number of companies eager to fight against global warming then Schaef SystemTechnik’s carbon credit opportunity could be just the pretext you need. Please visit booth 1832i at RSNA 2009 to receive your free carbon credits and learn more about how Schaef SystemTechnik and their partnerships with SolarBotanic and Carbon Credit Tree Africa is combating climate change and could also help carbon offset your organisation in the process.