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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...