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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 ...

Sep. 9, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

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 ...

Oct. 8, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Carbon credit trading schemes and carbon offsets as part of an investment product

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) are receiving an increasing number of reports from people who have been approached by firms promoting carbon credit trading schemes or offering carbon offsets as part of an investment product to individuals. ClimateCare recommends that any individual that has been approached by a business selling carbon offsets as a personal investment reads the advice on ...

Aug. 20, 2012

By ClimateCare

Greenstone appointed to DECC advisory forum

The Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched a Quality Assurance accreditation scheme for carbon offsets. The scheme is intended to enable consumers to quickly recognise a high quality offset and avoid some of the potential pitfalls involved in offsetting carbon emissions. To achieve the Government assured status, the offsets provided must adhere to a certain ...

Jul. 7, 2009

By Greenstone+

Aviation to cut carbon emissions to 2005 levels by 2050

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) announces more drastic cuts in UK aviation carbon emissions, reports Envido.The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has argued that to achieve a global reduction of 50% of all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 the UK may be forced to cut carbon emissions by 90% by 2050 to allow the aviation industry to adopt low-carbon technologies. Asking consumers to fly less, ...

Sep. 11, 2009

By Vital Energi

JustGreen™ Lifestyle by Just Energy Announces Carbon Offset Partnership with The Village of Pinecrest, Florida

SOURCE: Just Energy Group Inc. DESCRIPTION:PINECREST, Fla., Oct. 31, 2012 /3BL Media /PRNewswire/ - JustGreen™ Lifestyle by Just Energy is pleased to announce a unique partnership with the Village of Pinecrest in Florida to offer residents and businesses a simple new option to reduce their environmental footprint through carbon offsets. Generated from carbon emission reduction projects, the ...

Oct. 31, 2012

By 3BL Media

Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa Offsets 2015 Carbon Emissions from Employee Trips

Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spais pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement with ALLCOT, an international company that offers various services related to climate protection develops projects to offset carbon emissions produced by employee trips in 2015 thus demonstrating their commitment to the fight against climate change. The total volume of emissions generated by the ...

Jul. 19, 2016

By ALLCOT

Go Green ambassadors program goes global

Within months of launching the Go Green Ambassador’s Program, Go-Green.ae has received volunteers from over 45 countries in five continents. According to Sharad Agarwal, CEO of Go-Green.ae, “We are delighted by the encouraging response received for the Go Green Ambassadors Initiative. Thanks to Twitter, we have been able to spread the 'Go Green' message to thousands of people across the globe. ...

Oct. 22, 2009

By Go Green

Postal industry generates less than 1 per cent of global emissions, UN agency says

The postal industry annually generates at least 26 million tons of carbon dioxide, accounting for less than 1 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU) announced today in its first such global inventory. Postal operations in the UPU’s 191 member countries employ over 5 million people and operate a network of more than 600,000 post offices and ...

Dec. 4, 2009

By United Nations

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 ...

Jun. 22, 2007

By TÜV SÜD AG

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 ...

Dec. 20, 2006

By First Climate AG

Bioenergy helps cut greenhouse-gas emissions

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 in Oakland, California, reports that converting forest residues, agricultural and urban biomass waste, and gases from manure and landfills into energy helps reduce our ...

Jun. 3, 2008

By Pacific Institute

Carbon Neutral and Peregrine:Making Adventure Travel Greener

Adventure travel company Peregrine and Carbon Neutral have joined forces to offer responsible travellers greener opportunities to explore the world. The two organisations have established a unique carbon reduction programme with the aim to work towards providing totally carbon neutral travel for Australian customers. The new project will offset carbon emissions created by Peregrine’s ...

Jun. 20, 2012

By Carbon Neutral

Offsetters to be an official sponsor of the World Climate Summit

The Vancouver-based carbon management solutions provider Offsetters has just been named as one of the official sponsors of the 2010 World Climate Summit, set to take place in Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 4 - 5, 2010. This announcement marks the third sponsorship with global influence for Offsetters in 2010. In the past year, Offsetters was a sponsor to Globe 2010, one of the world's largest and ...

Nov. 17, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

Sustainable Business magazine and edie.net join forces with ClimateCare to offset carbon emissions with the award winning Carbon for Water project

Leading online environmental publishers edie.net and Sustainable Business magazine have partnered with climate and development experts ClimateCare to offset the carbon emissions associated with travel to key events. Travel by those attending the 2012 Responsible Procurement and Supplier Engagement Conference, Corporate Water Risk 2012 Conference and the Sustainability Leaders Forum will be ...

Aug. 21, 2012

By ClimateCare

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 ...

Mar. 8, 2019

By International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

New AEF briefing: why the UN carbon offsetting deal for aviation can’t close the UK policy gap

The Government is widely expected to announce this week that it supports a new runway at Heathrow. Yet in the protracted media and political discussions building up to this decision, the silence about the climate change impact of expansion has been deafening. Given that the last Government that supported a third runway lost a judicial review brought by environmental NGOs on the basis that its ...

Oct. 24, 2016

By A.E.F. S.r.l.

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 8, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Shadow pricing carbon in the energy sector

Many large companies in the Canadian energy sector are incorporating a self-imposed internal carbon price into key business decision-making processes according to a new report released today by Sustainable Prosperity. This "shadow" carbon price is used widely by oil and gas, electricity and pipeline companies to inform investment, planning, and technology decisions. The 10 companies surveyed ...

Mar. 4, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

1,000 attend Maala CSR Conference in Tel Aviv

Maala's annual CSR conference, considered the central platform for discussion of corporate governance and citizenship in Israel, drew an audience of 1,000 businesspeople, government officials and representatives of the nonprofit sector yesterday. The event, which marked a decade of CSR in Israel, was meant to draw lessons from the past decade, while looking ahead to some of the key trends over ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

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