Sustainable travel - Taxi service in London
Green Tomato Cars is a London-based private hire company that was founded a decade ago with a fleet of four Toyota Prius hybrids. Its fleet has now grown to over 500 vehicles, mostly comprising of Prius models. Surely they are the most sustainable travel business in the capital? The company has remained true to its environmentally-friendly principles and is currently switching to more sustainable travel options, with emission-free vehicles.
In 2015, Green Tomato Cars became the first private hire company to use a Tesla and the first to take on hydrogen fuel cell cars, introducing two Toyota Mirais in November of that year. The company is keeping an open mind on which technology is best suited for its requirements and is backing both hydrogen and electric options. The regulations in London require private hire companies to meet new emissions standards, and Green Tomato Cars wants to be ahead of the market in meeting these requirements.
Since 2020, they have been operating the largest zero-emission passenger fleet in Europe.
As well as driving the greenest vehicles they double offset unavoidable emissions. They don’t just just sustainable travel, they live it.
See their latest offsetting projects here:
Type: Health and Livelihoods | Micro Renewables
Region: Asia
Standard: CDM, Gold Standard
Solar water heaters (SWH) provide households, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and institutions with an in-house hot water supply fueled by renewable energy rather than carbon intensive grid electricity.
The project is primarily focused on serving urban areas throughout the country, and manufactures, distributes, installs and maintains solar water heaters for a variety of residential, commercial and community buildings. The project uses a range of channels to distribute the solar water heaters, primarily private entrepreneurs or larger entities that act as solar water heater dealers and franchise sub-dealers.
Some units are also sold directly to customers, and in some instances, partnerships with city, state and regional governments are also used for distribution. The project developer conducts awareness programmes in schools and general public exhibitions to help increase uptake of its solar products.
Type: Nature-based Solutions | Forest Conservation (REDD+)
Region: South America
Standard: VCS, CCB
Along Chile’s southern coastline within a global biodiversity hotspot, the Valdivian Coastal Reserve is part of a temperate rainforest and one of the most carbon-dense forests on Earth.
Prior to the project, the Reserve faced an immediate threat of degradation due to planned conversion to non-native eucalyptus plantations and construction of a coastal highway.
The Nature Conservancy purchased roughly 60,000 hectares, with conservation as the primary objective. The project aims to achieve security for threatened biodiversity, conduct scientific research of the rainforest, and contribute to the sustainable development of surrounding communities.
