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The Environment

First Counsel is in the growth business. We provide our clients with the best talent to help ensure sustained growth and success. We provide our candidates with the best opportunities to develop their careers. But there is another dimension. Every time we place a candidate within a client’s organisation, we invest in the tending and growth of 50 trees in Africa and India. In 2008, we will support the growth of 20,000 trees, equivalent to nearly 70 acres (30 hectares) or 60 full-sized football pitches.

In the process, we will offset more that 2,200 tonnes of carbon emissions, 20 times the total emissions of First Counsel. Our partners in this programme are Carbon Clear, a carbon management organisation which invests in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the air by replacing polluting technologies with cleaner ones and supporting community tree planting in developing countries. Carbon Clear’s projects are in developing countries and are carefully screened to ensure they also improve local people’s wellbeing. The organisation’s projects work on an holistic socio-economic level, with carbon credits seen as an enabler for other social benefits, rather than an end in itself.

We are also working to reduce our own direct carbon footprint by 15% in 2008. The ways in which we are seeking to do this include the more careful use of energy, achieving a reduction in our consumption of paper (and therefore production of waste), the sourcing of paper products from sustainable forests, and the more effective recycling of our waste.

This is all part of our aim to be a responsible, carbon neutral business. We hope that in some small and sustainable way we can help reduce the impact of carbon on global climate change and, ultimately, on our world.

Please visit www.carbon-clear.com