date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:15:02 -0000
from: "Tim O'Riordan" <T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fw: From Tim O'Riordan
to: "Simon Torok" <S.Torok@uea.ac.uk>, "Mike Hulme" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

   Dear Simon and Mike,



   I have ben in touch with Future Forests over the carbon offset scheme which they are
   advocating.



   I have suggested we maght in Tyndall assist them in possibly validating the science behind
   this.



   I am planning to met them later in the monthand would welcome your views as to any possible
   tyndall involvement in this.



   Very best,



   Tim





   ----- Original Message -----
   From: [1]George Fowkes
   To: [2]T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk
   Cc: [3]Sue Welland ; [4]Jonathan Shopley
   Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:20 PM
   Subject: RE: From Tim O'Riordan

   Dear Tim


   Hi, Im George Fowkes the Operations Director here at FF. I source all our carbon projects
   (forestry or not) and also manage our Science Partners at ECCM. Sue has asked me to reply
   to your note in this capacity.


   Im not sure how deep you want to go wrt our sites, science and verification, so I attach
   here a couple of documents that illustrate aspects of what projects we use and how let me
   know if you want to go further.


   To start with all our projects, please find attached 3 slides indicating our sites and
   projects to date some 94 of them. 80 are forestry sites in the UK. The average site size
   has grown by a factor of 10 in the 2 years I have been in the business, so mercifully the
   number we sign up each year actually decreases. Our most popular international site is in
   India, with our pop stars taking the German and US sites in general. We have one technology
   project (Torren energy, biomass boiler conversions) in the UK; the rest of our technology
   projects are abroad, with all but one in developing/transition countries - as I write we
   are just finalising our first Eastern European deal an energy efficiency project in Ukraine
   to heat local schools. I can give you writeups on many of these if you would like.


   We have a set of eligibility criteria for both types of project, which we put potential
   projects through as they are presented to us. The criteria are centred around a concept of
   sustainability, in a carbon, environmental and social sense, and I attach the 2 current
   filter forms we use. For forestry projects we look for long-term schemes, >90% indigenous
   species and, in developing countries, a strong community content. Technology projects
   should promote a transition to a sustainable future which we dervie through a set of
   approved technologies.


   Then science. ECCM ([5]www.eccm.uk.com) currently set a number of key science policies for
   us: they write the protocol for the simple assessments we do ourselves; perform the more
   complex assessments we dont have the technical expertise to do; approve, calculate (UK) and
   validate (International) the carbon sequestered on forest/technology projects. They also
   run the database which allocates our carbon stocks against client requirements something
   that plays to their strengths and ensures no conflict of interest. Our carbon calculations
   are done on a tonne-carbon.year basis; luckily for ex-engineers like myself, at 100 the
   coefficient makes the offset at 99 years very similar to the average storage amount. I
   attach an ECCM paper that you may find rather basic; the references at the end of this
   note* might be of more interest.


   Finally, verification. Increasingly explicitly, we make a carbon promise to our clients
   that we are giving them an appropriate assessment, are contracting and retiring the right
   volume of offsets on their behalf from the right type of project, and that we are keeping
   an eye on these projects to make sure they deliver. About 18 months ago we made a decision
   that, instead of relying on a board of the great and the good to look over our shoulders,
   we would appoint a third party to verify that we were living up to our promises. We chose
   KPMG who did their first round of verification last March. They gave us a clean bill of
   health over the most important bits of the promise, and having made improvements we are
   again opening the company up to a round of stakeholder consultation at the end of the year.


   I hope this is a sufficient taster, and would be delighted to discuss further over the
   email or in person. I also note with interest your offer to connect us with the Tyndall
   Centre. Ill ask Jonathan to keep me posted on your call.


   With best wishes


   George Fowkes



   *The references to this methodology are:


   Enting, I.G. 2000 Comment on Quantification and regulation of carbon offsets from forestry:
   comparison of alternate methodologies with special reference to Chiapas, Mexico.
   International Forestry Review (2)1:54-56

   Tipper, R. and de Jong, B.H. 1998 Quantification and regulation of carbon offsets from
   forestry: comparison of alternative methodologies, with special reference to Chiapas,
   Mexico. Commonwealth Forestry Review 77(3: 219-228.

   Tipper, R. and de Jong, B.H. 2000 Comment on Enting. International Forestry Review
   (2)1:56-58


   A description of this methodology can also be found in Bass, S., Dubois, O., Moura Costa,
   P., Pinard, M., Tipper, R., and Wilson, C. 2000. Rural Livelihoods and Carbon Management.
   IIED Natural Resources Issues Paper No 1.





   -----Original Message-----
   From: Tim O'Riordan [mailto:T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk]
   Sent: 08 November 2002 12:10
   To: Sue Welland
   Subject: Re: From Tim O'Riordan


   Dear Sue,


   I would be grateful if you would drop me an pasted email to let me know of all of your
   schemes, and also how they are scientifically validated. It is this latter point I would
   like to discuss with Jonathan and see if we cannot bring in the Tyndall Centre here in UEA
   in some way to assist you with this task.


   Very best,


   Tim O'Riordan

   ----- Original Message -----

   From: [6]Sue Welland

   To: [7]Tim O'Riordan

   Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:10 AM

   Subject: RE: From Tim O'Riordan


     Dear Tim


     Just this morning an email I sent last week to you has bounced back.  Apologies.


     Anyway, pls find below our bank details.


     Bank         Natwest

     Address    Paddington Branch, PO Box 2795, 26 Spring Street, London, W2 1WE

     Acc Name Future Forests Ltd

     Acc No      77039076

     Sort Code  60-80-05


     Perhaps I could speak to your secretary about working out the offset costs.


     Many thanks


     Sue Welland



     -----Original Message-----
     From: Tim O'Riordan [mailto:T.Oriordan@uea.ac.uk]
     Sent: 30 October 2002 17:40
     To: Sue Welland
     Subject: Fw: From Tim O'Riordan


   Dear Sue,


   I would like to pay you monthly or quarterly and need the contact addresses and pathways to
   your account to do so.


   Cheers, Tim



   ----- Original Message -----

   From: [8]Rosie Cullington

   To: [9]Tim O'Riordan

   Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:21 PM

   Subject: FW: From Tim O'Riordan


   -----Original Message-----
   From: Sue Welland [mailto:sue.welland@futureforests.com]
   Sent: 24 October 2002 14:15
   To: [10]r.cullington@uea.ac.uk
   Cc: Paul Norrish; Jonathan Shopley
   Subject: FW: From Tim O'Riordan


   Dear Rosie


   I am following up on your email to Paul Norrish below.  Thank you for deciding to make
   flights CarbonNeutral.


   Can I just clarify whether you mean that you want to give us Mr ORiordans airmiles (the
   points system) to offset his flights OR you want to offset his total air miles (ie flight
   miles).  I think it is the latter, but could you confirm?


   If it is the latter, then I would suggest:


            you send me a rough estimate of how many long and short haul trips Mr ORiordan
   takes per year (based on 2002, lets say)

            I will then work out the annual cost, and you could arrange for this to be
   covered by an annual or quarterly direct debit

            That you keep a tally of flights actually taken in 2003 (from where to where),
   and that at the end of 2003, FF works out the actual cost of annual offset and then bills
   Mr ORiordan for the balance (or refunds it)

            I propose that the offset is achieved through the biomass project we have in
   India, but you are welcome to choose from any of the live projects listed on our web site.


   Many thanks.


   I look forward to hearing from you.


   Sue Welland

   Marketing Director





   ----- Original Message -----

   From: [11]Rosie Cullington

   To: [12]paul.norrish@futureforests.com

   Cc: [13]Tim O'Riordan

   Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:05 PM

   Subject: From Tim O'Riordan


   Dear Paul


   Further to my correspondence, I do not wish to let go of my links to you and your
   organisation. If you are in South Africa during the week 1-6 February 2003, I may be able
   to get you access to a Business and Environment Course with which I am involved in Cape
   Town. The details are on the web ([14]www.cpi.cam.ac.uk). I do hope to hear from you and
   Jonathan.


   And I would like to pay a direct debit to your organisation to offer all my air miles. So
   if you could advise me on how to do this, I would be most grateful.


   Best wishes

   Tim


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