Greenhouse Effect and Car Insurance

Making sure we get good value cover for our money is certainly a priority when it comes to choosing an insurance policy. But it is also possible, and highly advisable, to be good to the health of the environment, as well as being good to your finances.

The effects of greenhouse gases on the health of the world are becoming increasingly severe. When carbon dioxide gets emitted into the air, the sun’s energy is trapped by the earth’s atmosphere. By consequence of the greenhouse effect, the earth is heating up at an alarming rate. The major and dangerous changes that have ensued are a rise in sea level, extreme weather conditions and drastic alterations in precipitation.

Now, there are more and more insurance companies that provide all the usual benefits of a good insurance policy, but which are also ethically aware.  

Co-operative Insurance are well known for taking an active role in the protection of the environment. For example, they have the UK’s first car insurance policy that will help to offset some of your car’s CO2 emissions. Offsetting means funding projects designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, with the goal of cancelling out the CO2 emissions produced by cars. So, Co-operative calculates how much CO2 your car emits per mile, and then invests in projects such as rainforest deforestation, energy efficiency and renewable energy resources, working to neutralise 20% of those CO2 emissions. Co-operative also makes sure that the car repairers it employs recycle materials like body panels and plastic parts. Visit the Co-operative Insurance website for tips on how to combine the costs of your car insurance investments with lowering the environmental costs of CO2 emissions.