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Global carbon markets now open to Wetland Restoration and Conservation

Wetlands International welcomes the approval of the new carbon trading category “Wetlands Restoration and Conservation” (WRC) by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). The new category provides a strong incentive for private investment in conservation and restoration of carbon rich wetlands. The Verified Carbon Standard’s new carbon trading category enables the measuring and ...

Oct. 17, 2012

By Wetlands International

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 ...

Dec. 3, 2012

By SCS Global Services

SCS Expands GHG Offset Verifications to Include Landfills, Livestock and Ozone Depleting Substances

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), a leading verifier of forest carbon offsets, has expanded the scope of its carbon offset verification services in response to escalating demand created by the launch of California's Cap and Trade program. The company is now accredited to verify landfill gas offsets under the Climate Action Reserve protocol and the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), and is ...

Jul. 10, 2012

By SCS Global Services

Bosques Amazonicos Project Becomes First Validated Peruvian REDD Carbon Offset Project

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) has announced the validation of Peru's first Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) carbon offset project. The project will use revenue generated from the sale of carbon credits to prevent illegal deforestation on 290,695 hectares of Peruvian rainforest. The Madre de Dios forestland has been jeopardized by illegal forest ...

Jul. 25, 2012

By SCS Global Services

By bike to the Sea, a CO2 free bicycle tour from Bucharest to Black Sea

By bike to the Sea, a bicycle tour from Bucharest till the sea, has become an event CO2 free thanks to CARBON EXPERT from Romania and ALLCOT Group from Switzerland. This event, which has been held for 11 years, gathered 450 amateur cyclists at the end of April, 26-28, who rode a distance of 305 kilometers. The emissions of this event, 15tn of CO2, came from 5 trucks for food, 8 buses, and 10 ...

May 29, 2017

By ALLCOT

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 ...

Dec. 19, 2012

By ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd.

Indigenous Brazilian tribe certified to trade carbon credits

Brazil's Paiter Suruí community has become the first indigenous group in the country to receive international certification to sell carbon credits in return for protecting and restoring forests in their Amazonian territory. The Suruí community, which numbers around 1300 people, was first contacted by outsiders in 1968. Over the past decade, with assistance from environmental ...

Apr. 13, 2012

By SciDev.Net

DNV GL earns top ranking in 2014 voluntary carbon market survey

DNV GL is again ranked as the “best verification company” in the 2014 survey by Environmental Finance magazine, continuing its leadership position in the worldwide market for voluntary carbon offset projects and trading of carbon emissions credits. DNV GL also earned top honors in the 2013 survey. “We are delighted and grateful for this recognition,” says Dave Knight, ...

Aug. 5, 2014

By DNV GL - Business Assurance North America

Amazonian People First to Earn Carbon Credits after Proving They Saved Endangered Rainforest

Four years ago, the indigenousPaiter Suruíof the Brazilian Amazon voted to shift the basis of their economic livelihoods away from logging and other activities that require bulldozing the forest towards activities that conserve it. To make up for lost income, they sought to earn credit for the carbon captured in trees under a mechanism known as REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation ...

May 31, 2013

By Forest Trends Association

REDD Carbon Offset Project in Peru´s Cordillera Azul National Park Earns Double Validation and Verification from SCS Global Services

A "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)" carbon offset project in Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park has earned independent validation under two internationally recognized standards based on assessments conducted by third-party verifier SCS Global Services. The project, which will protect more than 1,300,000 hectares of tropical forests from deforestation, also ...

May 29, 2013

By SCS Global Services

California’s Air Resources Board Approves First Forest Carbon Offset Project Under its Cap-and-Trade Protocol

April marked a milestone for forest carbon projects when California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued the first forest carbon offsets to a project developed under the California Compliance Offset Protocol-U.S. Forest Projects. The Yurok Tribe Sustainable Forest Project improves forest management on approximately 8,000 acres of tribal forestland in Humboldt County. By registering the project and ...

May 6, 2014

By The Climate Trust

World´s Largest REDD Project, Rimba Raya, Earns VCS Verification from SCS Global Services

Indonesia's Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve has become the world's largest verified "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" (REDD) carbon offset project after successfully undergoing a third-party verification by SCS Global Services under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). The project will preserve carbon-rich tropical peat swamp and forest, originally slated for development ...

May 30, 2013

By SCS Global Services

Peatlands benefit us all – Don’t drain them!

Why should we keep peatlands wet? If they have been drained, why should we bother to rewet them? The answer is that peatlands provide huge benefits that often go unrecognised. Presentations from China and Belarus in a side event co-organised by Wetlands International at the Ramsar Convention Conference of the Parties (COP11) gave excellent overviews of the benefits as well as challenges of ...

Jul. 19, 2012

By Wetlands International

MOVE Systems and ALLCOT develop first ever New York based carbon credit generation project and it is already officially registered

MOVE Systems International, LLC, a company which delivers safe and clean energy solutions to the mobile food industry, has commenced a joint venture with ALLCOT Group to develop the first ever carbon credit generation project based in New York City. The program is already officially registered with the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, the world’s leading voluntary GHG program. ...

Apr. 18, 2017

By ALLCOT

Voluntary carbon offsetting tops 100 million tonnes

The demand for voluntary carbon offsetting grew 4% in 2012, with buyers committing more than $523 million to offset 101 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent report by Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace. According to the report - Maneuvering the Mosaic - State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013 - private sector buyers flocked to offsets earned by planting ...

Jun. 3, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

CARBON EXPO is supported by eleven prestigious organizations

The upcoming CARBON EXPO Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference continues to maintain its leading role as the world’s foremost conference and fair for carbon market players, with the support of eight international stakeholders involved in emissions trading and carbon finance. It provides stakeholders a chance to showcase technologies, services and successful carbon projects in the ...

May 21, 2012

By Koelnmesse GmbH

Re-Building the World`s Soil: The Role of Soil Carbon Methodology for U.S. and Global Carbon Offset Projects

The Earth Partners is pleased to announce the validation of its comprehensive soil carbon quantification methodology by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). The new methodology provides a credible, science-based approach to measuring soil carbon and reducing or removing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on land-based agriculture, forestry and other land use projects, including ecosystem restorations. ...

Dec. 1, 2012

By The Earth Partners LP

Forest carbon offsetting report 2010

EcoSecurities, Conservation International, Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), ClimateBiz and the Norton Rose Group have collaborated to find out what more than 157 global, multinational and regional organisations think about forestry and forest carbon offsetting projects. Some of the key findings of the survey include: Positive attitudes towards forest carbon offsetting ...

Jun. 29, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

Designtex releases footprint assessment and maintains carbon neutral operations for second year

This Earth Week marks Designtex's second year of carbon neutral operations. Coinciding with their 50th Anniversary, Designtex is the only contract textile distributor to achieve a net zero operational footprint in its role as a major supplier to an increasingly green building market. Designtex has continued its partnership again this year with NativeEnergy, a leading provider of carbon offsets, ...

Apr. 22, 2011

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Multinational partnership secures life changing investment for Rwanda

International carbon finance experts Climate Corporation, operating in Australia, China and Europe have signed an agreement with UK based carbon management company co2balance to develop a carbon reduction project, delivering lifesaving clean cooking technologies to some of the poorest districts of Rwanda. The project was recently registered by The Gold Standard 1 as the lead project in the first ...

Sep. 10, 2013

By co2balance UK Ltd