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3C strengthens CDM/JI Division
Frankfurt - On January 1st, 2007, Dr. Martin Kruska joined the 3C Group as Head of CDM/JI. Martin is one of the most renowned German experts in the fields of energy efficiency and emissions trading. Taking him on board, 3C has further strengthened its position as one of the leading companies for sourcing Certified Emission Reductions (CER), Emission Reduction Units (ERU) and Verified Emission ...
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3C and NativeEnergy Form International Partnership
Frankfurt, Germany/Vermont, U.S.A. - 3C and NativeEnergy, two major purveyors of the voluntary high-quality carbon market, announce the first intercontinental partnership between a European based offset provider and a leading U.S. provider. The formation of this largescale alliance will have significant impact on the development and sustainment of high quality carbon offset projects across the ...
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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 ...
By TÜV SÜD AG
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3 Key issues to watch during the Bangkok climate talks
The U.N.’s current round of climate change negotiations continues this week in Bangkok. While the last intersessional in Bonn yielded more lows than highs, the Bangkok talks have the potential to make real progress and set the tone for COP 18 in Doha, Qatar later this year. The Big Picture As with any U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session, negotiators will need to ...
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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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SGS Hosts Free Webinars on Product Carbon Footprint Marks, June 5-7, 2012
To address growing consumer expectations for environmental transparency and to counter NGOs who point out that the claims of some companies are only “green washing,” SGS has developed a progressive three-level product marking scheme to independently assess and demonstrate a company’s environmental commitment in a manner that communicates it clearly to consumers. June 5 – ...
By SGS
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IDB partners with 3C Group to meet carbon neutral commitments
After a public bid process, the IDB has announced that it has formed a 1 year partnership agreement with 3C Group to provide the IDB with 100% of its carbon neutral needs. 3C sources VERs (Verified Emission Reductions) for the IDB from projects in Latin America and the Caribbean on an annual basis. It will also support the IDB in developing calculation tools and technical advice to strengthen the ...
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First Kyoto Protocol Emission Credits Generated by Honduras
BONN, Germany, October 20, 2005 (ENS) - Two hydroelectric power projects in Honduras today became the first facilities to generate certified emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol. The hydroelectric projects, which do not emit greenhouse gases, are creating credits for Italy and Finland to use in meeting their emissions reduction commitments under the protocol. In Bonn, the Executive ...
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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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First Environment Completes Kodak’s Worldwide Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2005
Boonton, NJ: First Environment, a worldwide leader in environmental management and sustainability, announced today that it has successfully completed the third-party certification process of Eastman Kodak Company’s 2005 global greenhouse gas emissions. Kodak reports their emissions inventory to the California Climate Action Registry, a non-profit public/private partnership that helps ...
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Improving the rules on carbon projects
Climate negotiations must promote capacity building, not impose quotas, if all developing countries are to benefit from the Clean Development Mechanism, argues ZhongXiang Zhang. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an innovative financial incentive built into the Kyoto Protocol to channel funds and technology to developing countries to help them meet their sustainable development goals. ...
By SciDev.Net
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Japan, ADB Announce Fund to Promote Low-Carbon Technologies in Asia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced today the establishment of a new trust fund to support the adoption of advanced low-carbon technologies in its developing member countries (DMCs), with a grant of ¥1.8 billion (about $17.65 million) from the Government of Japan. The Minister of the Environment of Japan Nobuteru Ishihara and ADB President Takehiko Nakao today signed a Letter of ...
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Not ready for REDD?
Practicalities of trading carbon and protecting forests make meeting high expectations for REDD hard, say Esteve Corbera and Manuel Estrada. It is clear that any effective international 'deal' on climate change must decrease emissions from deforestation and land-use change that represent about a fifth of all emissions. An international mechanism to fund such reductions, reducing emissions from ...
By SciDev.Net
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3C implements carbon offset for Inter-American Development Bank meetings
Frankfurt - Frankfurt-based international carbon consulting and investment group 3C has concluded a contract to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of two international conferences held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The emission reductions originate from a micro hydro power plant in Guatemala with a total installed capacity of 165 kW and an average annual power generation of ...
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IETA`s Report: Carbon market sentiment took a knock after Copenhagen. One year on, our survey suggest that sentiment is recovering slowly.
The IETA annual GHG market sentiment report, released at the start of Carbon Expo 2011 in Barcelona, shows that traders views are only slightly more positive than last year. Opinion is divided on whether Cancun had a positive impact on the carbon markets. Some piecemeal progress is expected in Durban, but not the implementation of legally-binding emissions targets Future carbon credit prices ...
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IDB joins EPA’s climate leaders program
The Inter-American Development Bank today announced its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program as part of its continued commitment to upholding sustainability standards in-house. By participating in Climate Leaders, the IDB has pledged to look at ways to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, initially in its Washington, D.C. headquarters, ...
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U-Haul moves to save California forests and clean air
U-Haul is proud to announce the purchase of verified greenhouse gas emissions reductions from three California forests owned and operated by The Conservation Fund. The Big River, Garcia River and Salmon Creek forests—all in the redwood region of California's North Coast—are helping to safeguard habitat for wildlife, provide jobs for the local community and trap carbon dioxide as they ...
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Reflections on COP 18 in Doha: Negotiators made only incremental progress
Expectations were low for this year’s UNFCCC climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar (COP 18), which concluded last week. It was scheduled to be a “finalize-the-rules” type of COP, rather than one focused on large, political deals that went into the early hours of the morning. Key issues on the table included finalizing the rules for the Kyoto Protocol’s second commitment ...
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ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. and Wildlife Works Carbon LLC Deliver First REDD+ Project in Democratic Republic of Congo
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR)(FRANKFURT: 9EA) and Wildlife Works Carbon LLC are pleased to announce the successful validation, verification and issuance of 2.5 million tonnes of Verified Emission Reductions from the first REDD+ project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Mai Ndombe REDD+ project is the world's largest REDD+ project to achieve validation and ...
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Rich Panoply of Giving Marks Third Clinton Global Initiative
NEW YORK, New York, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - When the formal portion of the third annual Clinton Global Initiative closed in New York on Friday, former President Bill Clinton announced that participants' commitments will result in 170 million acres of forest protected or restored, plus millions of people with better access to health care, sustainable incomes, and education.'Giving,' the title of ...
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