Offsetting your carbon: Here's how you can do this ...

St James has calculated its Carbon Footprint for 2022 and offset it through Enable Busoga. This will help to pay for the monthly monitoring of thousands of trees planted to sequester carbon across more than a dozen sites in the Bugiri district of Busoga, Uganda.

Would you like to offset your own Carbon Footprint? Enable Busoga has set up a fund for further tree planting and one for on-going monitoring and training to which you can donate. Work out your annual footprint using an online Carbon Calculator from for example, Climate Stewards or WWF, multiply by 25 –the price per tonne of carbon used by Climate Stewards – to give you the amount in GBP. Send an email to enablebusoga@outlook.com stating whether your donation is for planting or for monitoring and we’ll send you the required bank details.

Alternatively, you can calculate and donate directly with Climate Stewards. Sites at 5 of the Enable Busoga parishes in Bugiri district were planted in collaboration with Climate Stewards: locations 41 (Matovu), 42 (Nawambwa), 43 (Nakavule), 44 (Itakaibolu) and 45(Kyemeire). You can contribute specifically to these sites by clicking the ‘Offset Now’ button and following the carbon footprint calculation process using the ‘SJBTP’ organisation code!