PartnerVine went Climate Positive this year, which means we offset more greenhouse gas emissions than we emitted. This is the fifth year of our carbon commitment, and the third year that we have gone Climate Positive. When we say we're climate postive for 2024, we are referring to our greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon credits we purchased for 2023, which was the last year for which we measured our emissions. We plan to measure our emissions for 2024 and report them in 2025.
PartnerVine has committed to address our greenhouse gas emissions because we want you to know that PartnerVine’s integrity extends to every aspect of our business, including our sustainability strategy. Integrity in the way we manage our greenhouse gas emissions is another way of earning the trust of those we work with, and we intend to earn that trust in every way we can.
For our greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, we worked with the UN's Climate Neutral Now program to measure, reduce and offset greenhouse gas emissions. Our emissions went down in 2023, because our emissions looked relatively good compared to the higher amount of emissions we had from business travel in 2022 after COVID restrictions on travel eased. This year, we decided to invest in offsets that reduce carbon emissions 2x more than our 2023 footprint, which made us Climate Positive in respect of our 2023 emissions.
This year, we purchased our carbon offsets from the UN's Carbon Offset Platform. We funded "Clean Cook Stoves in Sub-Saharan Africa", a project in Ghana and Kenya run by ClimateCare Ltd to introduce efficient charcoal cooking stoves. The project's participants include the Swedish Energy Agency, the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment and Germany's Emissions Trading Authority. Because we think efficient charcoal cooking stoves would not be funded without offsets for greenhouse gas emissions, we thought it was the best option for our carbon offsets this year.
Our achievement badge from Climate Neutral Now is below. If you'd like to learn more about what we've done in prior years, you can find articles on our Sustainability Policy here.
Looking forward to our 2024 program. For our 2024 greehouse gas emission program, we are working with SME Climate Hub. Our commitment for 2024 is reflected in the SME Climate Hub page in the footer of our website that looks like this:
