Can you feel the change in the weather? The planet is heating up and human activity is responsible. Climate change /global warming is the greatest environmental, agricultural, social and security threat facing the modern world.

If you are one of the growing numbers of individuals and businesses who want to make a positive contribution to climate change then Climate Positive wants to form a partnership with you.

Our approach is simple - we work with you to:

UNDERSTAND climate change - the causes, projections, risks and solutions

MEASURE your greenhouse gas footprint,

REDUCE your emissions through adopting a carbon reduction strategy;

OFFSET 100% of your residual emissions through Verified Emission Reduction (VER) certificates

In addition, Climate Positive will

REPLANT ecologically diverse carbon rich forests on cleared land to absorb additional carbon over time, and building wildlife corridors, habitat, erosion and water benefits, enabling you to become "climate positive".

The 5 step process to becoming Climate Positive:

1. UNDERSTAND climate change. By learning about the problem and its solutions you will be able to effectively reduce your own emissions and learn how society can move away from dangerous climate change to a low carbon safer future.

2. MEASURE your greenhouse footprint. Using our website calculator you can input your vehicle, air travel, household energy usage information and the calculator will work out your tonnage of greenhouse gas emissions per annum. Small to medium businesses can use the calculator to approximate their emissions, but for medium to large businesses we refer you to a group of accredited greenhouse auditors who will calculate your footprint very accurately as well as a customized carbon reduction strategy.

3. REDUCE Reducing our greenhouse footprint is the most important step. This section of the website will give a user friendly guide to reducing your carbon footprint.

4. OFFSET your residual emissions through verified emission reduction projects. Climate Positive will offset 100% of your emissions through the purchase of accredited carbon offsets from quality projects that prevent greenhouse gas release and help us transition to a low carbon future.

5. REPLANT ecologically diverse carbon rich forests on cleared land. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon have been released through land clearance in Australia in the past 100 years. We match each tonne you offset with a further 0.3 tonne sequestered in our biodiverse replanting projects, so you become Climate Positive. These plantings will aim to re-establish forest ecosystems with biodiversity, habitat, soil erosion as well as carbon benefits, and to provide landscape scale linkages between areas of remnant bush, to provide pathways for the movement of wildlife and to build ecosystem resilience in the face of future anticipated global warming.

While offsetting and replanting is a positive step, it is not the sole answer to global warming. Reduction of carbon release into the atmosphere is the most important step in the process.

If we continue to release large volumes of fossilised carbon into the atmosphere our planet will continue to warm and we will head towards a very uncertain future. Good planets are hard to find and it would be silly to ruin this one by allowing runaway climate change.

If you would like to register interest in becoming Climate Positive please go to www.climatepositive.org and join in!!!