Bessemer Venture Partners Implements Carbon Footprint Reduction Plan.

PR Newswire | September 25, 2007 | Copyright

Firm will offset 100 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions beginning FY07, will purchase offsets for young portfolio companies

LARCHMONT, N.Y., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced its intention to offset all of its direct greenhouse gas emissions. Making its initial purchase of carbon credits before the end of the year, BVP will offset 100 percent of its emissions in 2007 and onward. The firm also plans to reduce its total carbon emissions 25 percent by 2013 and will ...

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