據管道新聞網3月29日消息稱，雪佛龍美國公司通過其雪佛龍新能源部門和恢復地球基金會公司宣布了一項協議，在路易斯安那州的圣查爾斯教區為多達8800英畝的財產重新造林項目。

該項目將雪佛龍公司和恢復地球基金會聯合起來，開發一種基于自然的解決方案，預計將去除大氣中的碳，并將重點放在圣查爾斯教區的天然柏樹林和沼澤的重新造林上。作為項目的一部分，雪佛龍將為“恢復地球”項目提供資金，預計將種植170萬株當地禿柏樹幼苗。

雪佛龍新能源公司的副總裁Barbara Harrison說：“碳抵消預計將在全球碳減排中發揮顯著作用。雪佛龍新能源公司很榮幸能與‘恢復地球’合作開展首個碳抵消項目，為雪佛龍和我們的客戶帶來更低碳的解決方案。除了有助于去除碳，預計秧苗移植將有助于當地森林和濕地生態系統的恢復。”

2021年，雪佛龍推出了雪佛龍新能源公司，以加快氫行業的低碳業務；碳捕集、利用和儲存(CCUS);補償;以及新出現的機遇，并支持雪佛龍繼續專注于生物燃料。圣查爾斯教區柏樹重新造林項目預計將產生碳抵消，這既可以幫助抵消雪佛龍的碳排放，又可以幫助客戶實現他們的低碳目標。

恢復地球基金會的創始人兼執行董事P.J. Marshall說：“我們很高興與雪佛龍新能源公司開展合作。恢復地球景觀規模的再造林是一個基于自然的解決方案，對應對氣候變化至關重要，并為該地區和國家提供了許多額外的環境和社會效益。像雪佛龍新能源公司這樣具有前瞻性的組織正在倡導具有影響力和簡單的解決方案，為自我維持的系統提供健康的生態系統、生物多樣性、棲息地和社區彈性——從幾代人、幾十年和幾百年的長遠角度出發，為整體福祉、生計、身份和文化提供保障。”

朱佳妮 摘譯自 管道新聞網

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Chevron Launches its First Carbon Offset Project in Louisiana

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, and Restore the Earth Foundation Inc. announced an agreement for a reforestation project for up to 8,800 acres of property in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

The project will bring together Chevron and Restore the Earth Foundation to develop a nature-based solution, which is expected to remove carbon from the atmosphere and be focused on reforesting natural cypress forests and swamps in St. Charles Parish. Chevron will provide funding for Restore the Earth to plant an expected 1.7 million native bald cypress seedlings as part of the project.

“Carbon offsets are expected to play a notable role in global carbon reduction. Chevron New Energies is proud to collaborate with Restore the Earth on our inaugural carbon offsets project — bringing lower carbon solutions to Chevron as well as our customers,” Barbara Harrison, vice president of Offsets & Emerging of Chevron New Energies, said. “In addition to helping remove carbon, the seedling replanting is anticipated to contribute to local forest and wetland ecosystem restoration.”

In 2021, Chevron launched Chevron New Energies to accelerate lower carbon businesses in hydrogen; carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); offsets; and emerging opportunities, as well as support Chevron’s continued focus on biofuels. The St. Charles Parish cypress reforestation project is expected to generate carbon offsets that could both help offset Chevron’s carbon emissions, and help customers achieve their lower carbon goals.

“We are excited to launch this partnership with Chevron New Energies. Restore the Earth’s landscape-scale reforestation is a nature-based solution critical to addressing climate change and provides so many additional environmental and social benefits to the region and to the nation,” said P.J. Marshall, founder and executive director, Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. “Forward-thinking organizations like Chevron New Energies are initiating impactful and simple solutions that provide for healthy ecosystems, biodiversity, habitat and community resiliency in self-sustaining systems—taking the long-term perspective of generations, decades and centuries, providing for overall well-being, livelihood, identity and culture.”