# UNICEF UK links giving to climate change adaption projects

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/03/31/unicef-uk-links-giving-climate-change-adaption-projects/
- Published: 2010-03-31T09:50:52+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**UNICEF UK’s new Carbon Positive campaign encourages individuals and businesses
to take responsibility for the size of their carbon footprint by donating and investing
in adaptation projects which help children around the world to thrive amidst the
environmental changes they face.**

UNICEF say that this campaign is about more than being carbon neutral: it encourages
people and organisations “to make the link between their own actions and the affect
it is already having on children living in vulnerable communities around the world
and to take action to help those communities respond effectively to the change”.

Visitors to the campaign website can calculate their carbon footprint using an online
calculator which takes into account the main areas of carbon usage, including flights,
their commute to and from work and the home. UNICEF suggests a donation or “investment”
of £10 per ton of carbon.

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Users then have the opportunity to view a range of areas where UNICEF works to combat
the affects of climate change, and then select which adaption project they would
like to invest in, for example in disaster risk reduction, water, education, health
and nutrition.

UNICEF UK Executive Director David Bull said that he was excited that “we are able
to offer the public a new way to take responsibility for their contribution to our
changing planet and help invest in a positive future for the world’s children”.

www.unicef.org.uk/carbonpositive

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