Carbon Literacy Trust Verified listing

The Carbon Literacy Project has always been a massive collaborative project from its conception.

It involves people and organisations from all sectors and walks of life working together and contributing time, materials and funding to advance understanding and action on climate change.

In creating and establishing The Project, Cooler Projects (itself a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company) made it clear that The Carbon Literacy Project materials and the intellectual property it created would not be retained by Cooler.

Instead this work was to be held in trust for the benefit of the people of Manchester and beyond. As soon as The Project was sufficiently established, an independent charitable trust would be founded to take on responsibility for The Project.

The Carbon Literacy Trust was formed in September 2013 and incorporated and recognised by the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in March 2014.

Its charitable aim is “to advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment” through the dissemination of Carbon Literacy.

The Trust is fortunate in having a board of trustees reflecting a huge depth of knowledge and understanding of climate change and its environmental and economic impacts, of work for the public good and individually, a depth of sectoral reputation and expertise which they each bring to bear in support of The Project.