The Air Liquide Foundation Contributes to Three Forest-Related Research Projects
June 19 2014 - 10:35AM
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Air Liquide (Paris:AI):
Forests are able to capture CO2 from the
atmosphere simply, efficiently and sustainably. Through its program
aimed at supporting scientific research focused on protecting the
environment, in particular that which contributes to preserving our
planet’s atmosphere, the Air Liquide Foundation is involved in
three research projects whose goal is to preserve the forests of
America, Asia and Oceania.
In Guiana, the Air Liquide Foundation is supporting a
scientific project focused on the tropical forest that covers 90%
of this territory. The CNRS1 and its partners, with the support of
the European Regional Development Fund and the Guiana Region, are
researching insecticides made from plants that grow in this forest.
In fact, over the centuries these plants have developed ways of
defending themselves against insects. The objective is thus to
isolate and identify these naturally occurring molecules so they
can be proposed as replacement solutions for the synthetic
molecules that may be harmful to the environment. The Air Liquide
Foundation financed the purchase of the materials being used to do
the research on these biodegradable insecticides.
In Indonesia, the WWF2 is setting up the first pilot site
for the UN’s new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
forest Degradation) program in the Tesso Nilo national park in
Sumatra. This project consists of evaluating the forest carbon
stocks in order to measure the amount of carbon emissions avoided
by putting an end to deforestation. The aim of this project is to
make preservation of the forest economically viable
by remunerating the country for refraining from practices that
cause deforestation, in the form of financial assistance. As part
of the project, the Air Liquide Foundation is supporting the
development of a method for analyzing the calculation of the amount
of carbon sequestration in the trees.
In Vietnam, the Air Liquide Foundation is supporting IRD3
research focused on mangrove swamps, with the aim of developing an
observatory for this ecosystem in several different types of
climate regions around the globe: temperate (New Zealand),
semi-arid (New Caledonia) and tropical humid (Vietnam). The
mangrove swamp is a coastal forest whose role is vital in the
carbon cycle due to its strong capacity to transform the CO2
present in the atmosphere into organic matter and store it in the
ground.
The provision of funding for these projects is in line with one
of the three missions of the Air Liquide
Foundation: scientific research on protecting the
environment, in particular that which contributes to preserving our
planet’s atmosphere.
The Air Liquide
FoundationWith a budget of 3 million euros over
five years, the Air Liquide Foundation supports corporate
philantropy actions in three areas: scientific research for the
preservation of the environment, scientific research for the
improvement of the respiratory function and support for
micro-initiatives for local development in the countries where the
Group is present. Since it was founded in 2008, the Foundation has
supported 168 projects in these three areas, located in
42 different countries.
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and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with more than
50,000 employees and serves more than 2 million customers and
patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen have been at the core of
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its solutions that protect life and the environment represented
around 40% of sales. Air Liquide is listed on the Paris Euronext
stock exchange (compartment A) and is a member of the CAC 40
and Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 indexes.
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1 The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National
Center for Scientific Research) is a public organization operating
under the auspices of the French Ministry of Education and
Research.2 WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature3 The IRD (Institut de
Recherche pour le Développement) is a French research
organization.
Air LiquideCorporate CommunicationsAnette Rey, +33
(0)1 40 62 51 31Garance Bertrand, +33 (0)1 40 62 59 62orAir
Liquide FoundationXavier Drago, +33(0)1 40 62 51 43Natacha
Brunet, +33(0)1 40 62 55 94
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