据管道新闻网3月29日消息称，雪佛龙美国公司通过其雪佛龙新能源部门和恢复地球基金会公司宣布了一项协议，在路易斯安那州的圣查尔斯教区为多达8800英亩的财产重新造林项目。
该项目将雪佛龙公司和恢复地球基金会联合起来，开发一种基于自然的解决方案，预计将去除大气中的碳，并将重点放在圣查尔斯教区的天然柏树林和沼泽的重新造林上。作为项目的一部分，雪佛龙将为“恢复地球”项目提供资金，预计将种植170万株当地秃柏树幼苗。
雪佛龙新能源公司的副总裁Barbara Harrison说：“碳抵消预计将在全球碳减排中发挥显著作用。雪佛龙新能源公司很荣幸能与‘恢复地球’合作开展首个碳抵消项目，为雪佛龙和我们的客户带来更低碳的解决方案。除了有助于去除碳，预计秧苗移植将有助于当地森林和湿地生态系统的恢复。”
2021年，雪佛龙推出了雪佛龙新能源公司，以加快氢行业的低碳业务；碳捕集、利用和储存(CCUS);补偿;以及新出现的机遇，并支持雪佛龙继续专注于生物燃料。圣查尔斯教区柏树重新造林项目预计将产生碳抵消，这既可以帮助抵消雪佛龙的碳排放，又可以帮助客户实现他们的低碳目标。
恢复地球基金会的创始人兼执行董事P.J. Marshall说：“我们很高兴与雪佛龙新能源公司开展合作。恢复地球景观规模的再造林是一个基于自然的解决方案，对应对气候变化至关重要，并为该地区和国家提供了许多额外的环境和社会效益。像雪佛龙新能源公司这样具有前瞻性的组织正在倡导具有影响力和简单的解决方案，为自我维持的系统提供健康的生态系统、生物多样性、栖息地和社区弹性——从几代人、几十年和几百年的长远角度出发，为整体福祉、生计、身份和文化提供保障。”
朱佳妮 摘译自 管道新闻网
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Chevron Launches its First Carbon Offset Project in Louisiana
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, and Restore the Earth Foundation Inc. announced an agreement for a reforestation project for up to 8,800 acres of property in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
The project will bring together Chevron and Restore the Earth Foundation to develop a nature-based solution, which is expected to remove carbon from the atmosphere and be focused on reforesting natural cypress forests and swamps in St. Charles Parish. Chevron will provide funding for Restore the Earth to plant an expected 1.7 million native bald cypress seedlings as part of the project.
“Carbon offsets are expected to play a notable role in global carbon reduction. Chevron New Energies is proud to collaborate with Restore the Earth on our inaugural carbon offsets project — bringing lower carbon solutions to Chevron as well as our customers,” Barbara Harrison, vice president of Offsets & Emerging of Chevron New Energies, said. “In addition to helping remove carbon, the seedling replanting is anticipated to contribute to local forest and wetland ecosystem restoration.”
In 2021, Chevron launched Chevron New Energies to accelerate lower carbon businesses in hydrogen; carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); offsets; and emerging opportunities, as well as support Chevron’s continued focus on biofuels. The St. Charles Parish cypress reforestation project is expected to generate carbon offsets that could both help offset Chevron’s carbon emissions, and help customers achieve their lower carbon goals.
“We are excited to launch this partnership with Chevron New Energies. Restore the Earth’s landscape-scale reforestation is a nature-based solution critical to addressing climate change and provides so many additional environmental and social benefits to the region and to the nation,” said P.J. Marshall, founder and executive director, Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. “Forward-thinking organizations like Chevron New Energies are initiating impactful and simple solutions that provide for healthy ecosystems, biodiversity, habitat and community resiliency in self-sustaining systems—taking the long-term perspective of generations, decades and centuries, providing for overall well-being, livelihood, identity and culture.”
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