carbon emissions offsetting Articles

Bioenergy and greenhouse gases

Branches, stalks, and manure are waste no longer; bioenergy is part of the solution to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A study released by the Green Power Institute, the Renewable Energy Program of the Pacific Institute, reports that converting forest residues, agricultural and urban biomass waste, and gases from manure and landfills into energy helps reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions and ...

May 31, 2008

By Pacific Institute

Carbon Offsets

In the 21st century, achieving 100% carbon neutrality can be a daunting task. Simple activities such as watching television, sending an email message, cooking and making a phone call all produce carbon emissions. Carbon offsets offer an alternative to reducing emissions by enabling individuals and businesses to compensate for their carbon emissions by purchasing credits which offset their ...

Sep. 11, 2007

By BSC Sustainability Services

How is a carbon footprint measured in a simple way?

Is Calculating Carbon Footprint Simple Math? A Carbon Footprint is relatively simple to measure. One just needs to add all the carbon emissions and subtracts the carbon offsets. Now, carbon emissions can be of different kinds. Cars, powered with fossil fuels, emit carbon for every mile they run. Once you know your car emission ratio (which varies depending on the size and efficiency of the ...

Feb. 18, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

Carlsbad project charts the future of sustainable desalination

Over the past five years desalination is gaining momentum in California. With more than ten projects in various stages of planning, environmental review, design and construction, brackish and seawater desalination plants are planned to provide 400 MGD to 500 MGD of new drinking water supplies for the state by year 2015. One of the largest and most advanced projects under development today is the ...

Sep. 27, 2008

By Poseidon Resources

Scope 3 Emissions: Why Quality Data Matters

Climate change is an unavoidable reality. For decades, scientists and activists have tried to shed light on this global crisis, and those efforts are finally taking hold. Consumers are increasingly demanding transparency when it comes to sustainable business practices. Many businesses have made promises to become more sustainable or improve their carbon emissions, but empty promises will no ...

May 20, 2021

By Sphera

The scope of the land–based sector to mitigate climate change in North–east Scotland: opportunities and challenges with particular reference to the role of forests

This paper reviews the scope for the rural land use sector to support emissions reduction with particular reference to the role of forestry. A bottom–up approach is adopted to explore the relative contribution of different land–based activities in the region and explore the Scottish policy context and the scope for emissions reduction through new tree planting. It is concluded that the ...

Nov. 27, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

7 Keys to Offsetting Your Carbon Emissions

In the debate on how to act during our current climate crisis, many organizations are very vocal about becoming carbon neutral. Municipalities, companies and even the EU have announced that they will become carbon neutral. And most of the announced plans include one important component: carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting is a process of compensating for CO2 emissions that an organization has ...

Sep. 19, 2019

By Sphera

Energy Recovery in Urban Wastewater Treatment on Global Scale

ABSTRACT The lack of proper wastewater treatment results in production of CO2 and CH4 without the opportunity for carbon sequestration and energy recovery, with deleterious effects for global warming. Without extending wastewater treatment to all urban areas worldwide, CO2 and CH4 emissions associated with wastewater discharges could reach the equivalent of 3.13·105 tCO2·d-1 in 2025, with even ...

Oct. 13, 2007

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

5 Must-have Features for Your Sustainability Software

What is the right feature set for your sustainability software? Calculating your CO2 footprint has never been that easy: online calculators help you with the math, online forms help you record all the information, and automated reports help you communicate. Today, sustainability software solutions are available and making a difference. Sustainability software solutions go far beyond simple ...

Jun. 12, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

The state of carbon finance in Europe: a 'SWOT' analysis of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme

As Phase III of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will begin in January 2012 when airlines operating flights to or from Europe will have to buy carbon permits to help offset their emissions under EU legislation, carbon finance and trading in Europe is set to proceed to a new horizon. Launched in January 2005, EU ETS is one of the established multilateral measures in the ...

Jan. 3, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Companies from Chanel to Ben and Jerry’s are benefiting from the new “carbon insetting” trend

Ten years ago, serendipity set Tristan Lecomte on his path to planting millions of trees around the world. Lecomte was CEO of the French organic and fair trade company Alter Eco, and his eco-conscious consumers were pressing him about his actions on climate change. So Lecomte calculated his company’s carbon footprint and began planting trees in partnership with the Peruvian farmers who ...

Feb. 1, 2017

By Ensia

Kenya to launch Africa’s first carbon trading hub

Kenya plans to launch a carbon trading platform to facilitate the trade of carbon credits and to help drive renewable energy. Kenya plans to create a carbon trading market to help drive clean tech and carbon emissions reduction within the country and across Africa. The carbon trading platform is expected to be open for business by the middle of next year, and it will be the first of its kind in ...

Nov. 22, 2010

By Vital Energi

Voluntary carbon market is fast becoming big business

If anyone had doubts about the importance of the voluntary carbon market they would certainly have been overcome by the announcement last month by Merrill Lynch of a new carbon offset service to assist businesses to reduce emissions through voluntary offsets. In partnership with ICF International, Merrill Lynch’s new Green and Gold initiative is the latest in a series of moves by major ...

May 9, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

FIFA Word Cup - Case Study

Coca Cola, sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE), certified the three-day visit of the Cup to Greece as a Climate Neutral Event. Included within the calculations of the emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the transportation of the World Cup trophy, the press conference that took place on the 10th of April, and the promotional ...

Aug. 18, 2012

By Centre for Sustainability and Excellence

Understanding the voluntary carbon market

The monitoring, reducing and offsetting of carbon emissions by corporations, organisations and individuals is rapidly moving from an ‘if’ and ‘why’ scenario to a ‘when’ and ‘how’ one. For the Kyoto Protocol signatory nations, this shift is one that combines elements of education, obligation and cooperation. For the few nations that have not signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, the change in ...

Jan. 1, 2008

By Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, Inc. (LRQA North America)

Study shows online consumers want environmentally friendly options

Reducing the carbon footprint of what we buy isn’t easy, but the opportunity for impact is substantial: In the United States, producing and delivering consumer purchases releases twice as much carbon into the atmosphere as home energy use and personal travel. By gathering and sharing information on carbon emissions associated with their products, companies can make environmentally friendly ...

Oct. 27, 2016

By Ensia

ASTM Membership: From Student to Professional

In 2002, I was on my way to getting my degree in materials engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua. As my graduation date approached, I accepted an internship in the research and development department of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua in my hometown of Chihuahua, Mexico. At GCC, I learned the fundamentals of cement and concrete production and the importance of standardized tests, ...

Mar. 3, 2014

By ASTM International

The Business Case for REDD

Deforestation and Degradation Around the world, forests are being destroyed at a rate of about thirteen million hectares a year and deforestation accounts for an estimated 17 – 20% of all global emissions. In addition, forests and other terrestrial carbon sinks play a vital role in preventing runaway climate change, soaking up a full 2.6 Gt of atmospheric carbon every year. The destruction ...

May 12, 2011

By The CarbonNeutral Company

Greenhouse Gas Emissions trading and duties of the state: A preliminary review of Alberta’s specified Gas Emitters Regulation

In July 2007 the oil endowed Canadian province of Alberta launched the first compliance emissions trading scheme for greenhouse gases in North America under its Specified Gas Emitters Regulation. This paper reviews key aspects of the programme including scope, performance credit trading and project offsetting with comparative reference to other carbon emissions trading schemes. The paper ...

Jun. 1, 2008

By Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Markets for Ecosystem Services – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment

Entitled Markets for Ecosystem Services – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment ( 1.3 MB), the report shows how at a fundamental level, all economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable supply of ecosystem services. The perspective paper is intended for both the business and conservation communities, in ...

Oct. 17, 2007

By World Business Council for Sustainable Development