Vatican goes carbon-neutral!

Submitted by oceanrev on September 16, 2007 - 5:58pm

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/europe/17c...
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TISZAKESZI, Hungary — This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called Klimafa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a denuded stretch of land by the Tisza River to offset the Vatican’s carbon emissions.

The trees should absorb as much carbon dioxide as the Vatican will produce in 2007.
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photo: Tamas Dezso for The International Herald Tribune

An angler on his way to the Tisza River, near where environmentally degraded land will be restored as a forest.

The young trees, on a 37-acre tract of land that will be renamed the Vatican climate forest, will in theory absorb as much carbon dioxide as the Vatican will produce through its various activities in 2007: driving cars, heating offices, lighting St. Peter’s Basilica at night.

In so doing, the Vatican announced, it would become the world’s first carbon-neutral state.

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