Climate Change

Climate Change

Planting Trees and Fighting Emissions.

Positive Action for our Home Planet.

What does broadband have to do with climate change?

Unfortunately, while electricity grids still rely to a substantial extent on fossil fuel power, there is a limit to how much we can reduce the emissions due to electricity usage. There are also other emissions that are hard to avoid such as those from transportation. Therefore, Cerberus Networks works with Ecologi 

Even with Cerberus offsetting the carbon emissions of our network and operations, there are emissions associated with the use of the Internet that are incurred outside of our network. We are now offering customers the opportunity to offset the emissions directly caused by their Internet usage. This is what we call Net Zero Broadband. 
 
Internet traffic uses electrical power by using network and computing equipment around the world. The traffic creates a demand for Internet capacity (i.e. the fixed installation of equipment) and also uses power when information is transmitted around the world using electrical or optical signals across wires and fibre optic cables.
 
By assessing the amount of carbon emitted by Internet usage on a monthly basis, we can offset that amount of carbon on your behalf.

Planting Trees

Cerberus uses tree planting to help counter the effects of the emissions generated outside of our network. Until they are several years old, your young trees are not mature enough to sequester carbon in large quantities. The verification programmes which do exist often will not verify carbon removal from trees until they are around 10 years old, so this is a long-term plan.

Restoring lost trees to forests and woodlands creates local employment doing work that helps, not harms, the environment. It creates the conditions for other natural systems and wildlife to recover, and over the long term, it acts as a potentially significant carbon sink - something that will be needed to stabilise the climate even when we get to net zero emissions. 

Take a look at our forest here.