Clean Air Woodheating's Environmental Commitment

Clean Air Wood Heating shares your concern for our precious environment and the protection of our natural resources. We use the latest technology to design the most advanced and fuel efficient firebox possible, and continue to research and develop new and improved ways to further increase wood heater efficiencies to better protect our environment.

The environment, in particular our carbon footprint, continues to be a growing concern. At a glance wood heating does not appear to be environmentally friendly - it burns wood and creates smoke; surely it cannot possibly be a viable environmental option?

In reality, wood heating is considered an environmentally sustainable alternative to the consumption of fossil fuels; when undertaken correctly it can almost be a carbon neutral alternative¹. Put simply, environmentally sustainable wood forests reabsorb the carbon emitted from the burned wood in a continuous cycle of regrowth and harvesting². Greenpeace themselves acknowledge:

...proper sustainable forestry practices do not cause a net increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because a new tree is grown for every one cut down.³

The fact is all heating options create emissions to some extent. If more wood heating were used in place of the fossil fuel alternatives, the sustainable emissions of wood would likely displace much of the unsustainable emissions of fossil fuels⁴.

Australia has some of the toughest standards in the world for wood heating.

All Clean Air wood heaters exceed the low emission expectations of the Environmental Protection Authority, and are compliant with Australian Standards 4012 and 4013 as tested by HRL, an independent Testing Authority.

To further demonstrate our commitment to environmental protection, Clean Air Wood Heaters contributes to Land Care Australia for the planting of more trees for future fuel supplies and cleaner air.

1,2 & 4 - Hamilton, Liz 'Firewood and Woody Biomass and their Role in Greenhouse Gas Reduction' Released by Department of Primary Resources / Victorian State Government April 2008.

3 - www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/science/deforestation