With the rise in awareness of the influences of carbon emissions to our environment, the Plan it Green Program, a local and voluntary carbon offset program intended to counterbalance carbon emissions generated by local events and visitors, has been revamped and relaunched.
The Plan It Green Program allows event organizers to offset carbon emissions generated by such things as transportation, product manufacturing, and electricity used for events, which contributes to the trapping of heat on the planet.
Administered and managed by Broward County’s Environmental Planning & Community Resilience Division (EPCRD), the Plan It Green Program, an online calculatorconverts event activities to carbon equivalents and assigns a dollar amount based on the number of trees required in order to offset the activity.
Visitors, event organizers and attendees can go to the website and calculate the carbon footprint associated with events and travel and make donations to offset their share of that footprint. Program participants receive a certificate of participation and their funds support local tree planting at Plan It Green designated sites.
In addition to offsetting carbon emissions, the Plan It Green program expands urban tree canopy providing more shading and cooling and creating wildlife habitats. For less than $2 per person, the average event can be Plan It Green certified while achieving local and corporate sustainability objectives and protecting the natural environment against future climate impacts.
The program builds on Broward County’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change through energy conservation, renewable energy initiatives and climate adaptation planning.
