Kettering, UK – Go Inspire Eclipse, a division of Go Inspire Group, has become the largest certified Carbon Balanced commercial printer in the UK to date.

A Carbon Balanced Printer is a printing company that has measured and balanced the annual impacts of its fossil fuel usage, vehicle emissions and electricity consumption. In the process of certification, these impacts are third-party verified, and then balanced with international conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT) (Charity No. 1001291).

As a Carbon Balanced commercial printer, Go Inspire Eclipse will help World Land Trust to save, protect and restore 448 acres of critically threatened habitat and, in doing so, lock up 2,588 tonnes of carbon.

WLT offsets these emissions by protecting threatened tropical habitats that would otherwise have been lost, avoiding the release of stored carbon. This also enables the regeneration of degraded forest, which gradually re-absorbs atmospheric CO2. World Land Trust is an international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats acre by acre. Since its foundation in 1989, World Land Trust has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife. WLT’s patrons include leading environmentalists Sir David Attenborough, Chris Packham and Steve Backshall.

Go Inspire Eclipse has become the largest commercial printer in the country to offer customers Carbon Balanced Print, where both the paper and the printing process have been offset with World Land Trust. Brands choosing Carbon Balanced Print will be issued with certificates and the highly visible World Land Trust logo to proudly use on their printed material.

Simon Moore, Managing Director, Go Inspire Eclipse, comments, “Having deployed a raft of different initiatives around sustainable paper products, energy efficiency and plastic usage reduction, we were looking for a scheme that would not only sequester carbon as an offset for our resulting footprint, but also make a measurable contribution to biodiversity and habitat preservation. Now, as a Carbon Balanced Printer, we are helping global conservation charity World Land Trust preserve critically threatened habitat in Vietnam. This not only offsets our carbon footprint, but it also helps protect the dozens of endangered species calling these forests home.”

Patrick Headley, Group CEO at Go Inspire, adds, “This is a really important scheme that goes far beyond simple carbon offsetting, and we are proud to support it. At Go Inspire, we have operated a wide-ranging ESG agenda long before it became common parlance. With this latest move, we are continuing our aspiration to be at the forefront of corporate citizenship in our industry – something that our clients notice, recognise and appreciate. Nor will we stop here – any environmental policy worth pursuing is a living and developing picture where further enhancements are always possible.”

Dan Bradbury, Director of Communications and Development, World Land Trust, concludes, “By becoming a Carbon Balanced Printer, Go Inspire Eclipse will make a significant contribution to our conservation efforts in Vietnam, one of the most biologically diverse countries on Earth. Khe Nuoc Trong is essential habitat for 40 globally threatened species, including the Southern White-Cheeked Gibbon, Crested Argus and the Red Shanked Douc, one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. The support of Go Inspire Eclipse and its clients will help us continue to preserve these incredible habitats, protect the species living within them, and keep the carbon locked in.”