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Carbon offsets
Harp BioDigesters reduce and eliminate harmful GHG emissions by limiting the oxidation of carbon during our proprietary waste conversion process, and by sequestering the carbon in the resulting soil product(s). We not only reduce waste volume and sequester carbon, but we also reduce waste transportation and the overall real estate area needed for landfills (or compost areas). We can thus provide ...
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Walmart rebukes FTC attempt to standardize carbon offsets
The Federal Trade Commission publishes a green guide to ensure that companies don’t market their products with inaccurate environmental claims. It recently sought to update the guide with some clarifications on carbon offsets. As loyal Triple Pundit readers will know, I am an unabashed fan of increased regulation in the carbon offset sphere. To my mind increased regulation is a win-win for ...
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VER+ and BlueRegistry for credible carbon offset projects
People, politics and business are aware that climate change is one of the leading challenges of the 21st century. With climate change on the rise in importance, not only official negotiations on current and future schemes have revived in relevance but emissions from any sort of activity or product have become an issue of general concern. It is usually dealt with the private or corporate ...
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IETA statement on ICAO Council’s adoption of MRV Rules for Emissions Reductions
IETA welcomes the ICAO Council's adoption this week of monitoring, reporting and verification rules for its CORSIA global offsetting system. CORSIA, or the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, is the first global sectoral emissions reduction system. Airlines will be required to calculate annually the emissions from their flights and buy carbon offsets equivalent to ...
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credit360 client website wins Canadian innovation award
credit360's client, The Resort Municipality of Whistler, were recently awarded the Willis Award for innovation from the Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators. This award is presented annually to municipalities demonstrating exceptional innovation and meritorious initiative Whistler 2020 Explorer was developed in 2006, integrating the extensive work and data that had been developed and ...
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New platform to assure quality standards in the voluntary market
Frankfurt - 3C Group and Carbonetworks have entered a transatlantic partnership leading to the development of CNX Marketplace™ enabling companies to select the Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Projects based on their preferences to meet their voluntary or compliance greenhouse gas reduction targets. Victoria, British Columbia based Carbonetworks Corporation announced the beta release of the ...
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Carbon Trading Magazine Survey Names SCS Global Services the Best Validation and Verification Company in the Voluntary Carbon Market for 2012
SCS Global Services was named "Best Validation Company" and "Best Verification Company( http://www.scsglobalservices.com/carbon-offset-verification )" in Carbon Trading Magazine's 2012 Carbon Market Survey( http://www.carbon-tradingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Carbon-Trading-Dec-2012Jan-2013.pdf ). Members of the carbon industry were invited to vote on their peers based on efficiency ...
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REEEP Introduces Quality Benchmark for Carbon Offset Markets
Vienna - Protecting the climate has become more sophisticated in recent years, with a plethora of options available to make a company, airline ticket or conference ‘carbon neutral.’ Governments, companies and individuals all have the opportunity to calculate the carbon emissions generated by their activities and then to purchase “offsets” from an emissions reduction project in the developing ...
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IETA Welcomes Progress on CORSIA Emission Reductions Criteria
IETA welcomes the decision by the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council to approve a set of emissions units criteria — guidelines that will help determine eligible emissions units under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction System for International Aviation (CORSIA). The text includes provisions to ensure delivery of real and verifiable emissions reductions, as well as preventing ...
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Carbon removal and offsets: a buyer’s guide
This is the make-or-break decade for climate action, and companies are leading the charge. But while there’s now wide consensus on the initial steps—measuring footprints, sourcing clean power, and decarbonizing supply chains—there’s still a lot of confusion about what comes after. For companies with carbon neutral or net zero goals, emissions cuts aren’t enough: ...
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Environmental and Corporate Groups Urge Countries to Adopt Rules on Sound Carbon Accounting Under Paris Agreement
The International Emissions Trading Association, Environmental Defense Fund and a group of 40 companies, business groups and non-governmental organisations today issued the Katowice Declaration on Sound Carbon Accounting. Non-state actors are closely following the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process as Parties to the Paris Agreement prepare to finalize the ...
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UN-backed carbon forum helps Africa profit from greenhouse gas offset scheme
Three days of deal-making and networking wrapped up today at the United Nations-backed Africa Carbon Forum in Senegal, aimed at improving the continent’s standing in the global carbon marketplace. Under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), industrialized countries can offset some of their own greenhouse gas emissions to earn certified emission reduction credits. Some 600 ...
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Climate action reserve becomes first registry to begin accepting compliance offset projects for California’s cap-and-trade program
The Climate Action Reserve, the nation’s premier carbon offset registry, has become the first registry to accept submissions for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction projects under California’s cap-and-trade protocols while it undergoes the application process to become a California Air Resources Board (ARB) accredited offset project registry. Project owners and developers may ...
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Dave matthews band caravan signs with ups to offset carbon footprint of its tour
The Dave Matthews Band, a longtime leader in "greening" initiatives, is working with UPS (NYSE:UPS) to help create a more sustainable concert tour this summer. "We're joining the band to move the music in a sustainable way," said Ron Rogowski, UPS vice president, sponsorship & events. "We will demonstrate to the live music industry that speed, efficiency and reliability need not be ...
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SCS Launches First Arctic Climate Neutral Certification Program
SCS Global Services (SCS), an internationally recognized third-party certification body verifying environmental claims, greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and carbon offset projects, celebrated World Environmental Day by launching its new Arctic Climate Neutral certification initiative. This groundbreaking program establishes a new beachhead in the worldwide effort to confront and mitigate the ...
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3C is an official sponsor of the Gold Standard Foundation
As part of its ongoing effort to maintain a flagship portfolio of premium carbon credits for the compliance as well as for the voluntary market, 3C’s engagement with the Gold Standard highlights the utmost importance of standardization and transparency in order to achieve credibility in the carbon market. 3C’s sponsorship will further strengthen its own quality assurance efforts and shall send a ...
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Nigeria Government & ECCO2 Corp announce launch for $90 billion cleantech project to reduce carbon emissions and rescue Kyoto protocol
Nigeria Minister of Environment John Ogar Odey and ECCO2 Corp, (www.ecco2corp.org), an affiliate organization of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (www.unfccc.int) have started plans to immediately launch "ECCO2 Nigeria Project" in efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, stimulate the Nigerian economy, and increase confidence in Kyoto Protocol. The ECCO2 clean ...
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Haiti prime minister and ECCO2 Corp enter talks for $1.5 billion cleantech project to reduce carbon emissions and stimulate economy
Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and ECCO2 Corp have begun discussions regarding the launch of the "ECCO2 Haiti Project" in efforts to reduce carbon emissions and stimulate the Haitian economy following the catastrophic earthquake earlier this year. This clean development mechanism (CDM) will be achieved by installing ECCO2's patented technologies within all 133 communes that make up the ...
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Companies Can Reduce Carbon Footprint by Giving Consumers Green Choices
Companies can reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chains and improve customer satisfaction by giving consumers information and tools to make green choices, according to research conducted by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings are drawn from a series of experiments designed ...
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National and Regional Commitments Drive Carbon Trading in Gap Left by Kyoto
In its annual review, CCBJ brings readers up to date on the global carbon trading market and talks to U.S. companies positioning to deliver the carbon-related products and services that will be demanded in ever greater quantities in the United States over the next decade. After five consecutive years of robust growth, the total value of the global carbon market has stalled at around $142 billion ...
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