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Carbon Offsets the Business at RSNA 2009 with Schaef SystemTechnik's Carbon Credits.

At the RSNA 2009 General meeting and Scientific Assembly, Schaef SystemTechnik will be providing an opportunity to carbon offset the emissions of attendees and will be giving away carbon credits in the form of trees planted in the name of choice of the first 1000 visitors to their booth.

Schaef SystemTechnik believes that global warming can only be impacted upon if positive steps are taken in all industry sectors and believes that the RSNA 2009 meeting, as the preeminent professional radiology event in the world, is the perfect platform on which to deliver this important message. In addition, an innovative scheme to provide X-ray facilities to people in remote African locations is being developed as described below, and details of this will also available at the event.

In partnering with Carbon Credit Tree Africa, whose tree plantations act as safe havens for Aids orphans, they have put in place a strategy to do just that and invite all attendees at RSNA 2009 to come and share in their vision.

Planting trees has long been identified as an effective carbon offsetting strategy and is accepted by the Kyoto Protocol as such. For medical IT companies the ability to purchase the carbon credits offered at RSNA 2009 has the dual benefit of reducing environmental impact whilst raising their environmental profile. In addition, Carbon Credit Tree Africa offers more than a carbon offsetting opportunity; they also provide an incredible multifaceted environmental and social return on investment.

Carbon Credit Tree Africa is the very definition of a socially and environmentally aware business and the possibility to positively impact a company's effect on global warming by partnering with them is one that should not be easily overlooked.

The environmental commitment exhibited by the Germany-based Schaef SystemTechnik also ext further than the facilitation of carbon credits. They have an agreement in place with innovative solar energy company SolarBotanic that will enable women in remote African villages access to X-ray scanning equipment.

SolarBotanic has developed next-generation solar products in the form of artificial trees that utilise a combination of nanotechnologies to capture energy in the form of heat, light and wind resulting in renewable, highly efficient and aesthetically pleasing electricity generation.

By creating X-ray scanning facilities powered by solar trees, SolarBotanic and Schaef SystemTechnik will provide people in remote areas the access to a technology they may never have used before, using electricity generated by a completely renewable source. The ability to engage in such humanitarian activity with the provision of a technology that is renewable and carbon neutral is in line with Schaef SystemTechnik's environmental outlook and further emphasises their commitment to fight global warming.

Source: Schaef SystemTechnik

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