carbon credits

Carbon credits are a component of trading schemes implemented to mitigate global warming. They provide a way to reduce greenhouse effect emissions by capping total annual emissions and letting the market assign a monetary value to any shortfall through trading in similar way as the market values stocks of publicly trading companies. Credits can be exchanged between businesses or bought and sold at the prevailing market price. They can be used to finance carbon reduction schemes between trading partners and around the world.

Worldwide, computers are responsible for the same quantity of carbon emissions as the airline industry. It is a serious problem that requires a serious solution. We won't achieve this just by offsetting but by making serious changes to the way we do business.

The G8 countries have endorsed bringing down the global greenhouse gas emissions by fifty per cent by the year 2050, however they did not specify a base year for emission cuts.

The Asian Development Bank announced on Tuesday that it has established a new carbon fund to provide financial support to clean technology initiatives in the Asia Pacific region that will continue to generate carbon credits post 2012. The fund- called the Future Carbon Fund will initially be worth...

Interview with President of SustainableWebsites.com on: Do you think companies should use carbon offsets to mitigate their global warming emissions?

Trying to figure out what this is a picture of?

Well it a systems that allows long haul truckers to turn off their engines when they are parked, keep warm and all their electronics powered.

Remove CO2 from the atmosphere by doing common activities like searching, clicking, and social networking.

In my previous role as Executive Director of LiveNeutral I regularly received emails from friends and colleagues sharing the website or videos developed by the “CheatNeutral” (http://cheatneutral.com/). They asked if I though it somehow damaged or diminished the objective of LiveNeutral which in part promotes the use of carbon offsets as a tool to help prevent catastrophic climate change. This pertains as much to the work of ClimateCHECK as it does to LiveNeutral and is an important concept to consider for those of us in or interested in the carbon markets industry.

So you want to add a carbon offset program to your company? Maybe you’re thinking it’s time to go green and become carbon neutral?

With the introduction of a customizable offset program, TerraPass has taken carbon offsetting to a new level. Now customers can not only purchase offsets to reduce their carbon footprint but they can also direct the company's effort to offset projects of their choice...

Reuters reports that the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has launched a new carbon emissions calculator in a bid to standardize the carbon offset schemes provided by various airlines.

Carbon Offsets Daily : When do you think the domestic voluntary carbon market will become a compliance market and how will that change affect the environment?

While Mr. Ban Ki Moon, U.N.

Japan, besides setting a 60-80% CO2 reduction goal (by 2050, not 2020 like environmentalists want), plans to launch a carbon market in autumn, which, if successful, could go global at some point in the future. Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter. This move advances Japan's green agenda before hosting the G8 summit next month.

Eight leading carbon reduction and offset providers have joined hands to form the The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), with the overall objective of strengthening, promoting and lending credibility to the burgeoning market for carbon offsets. The ICROA members have signed up to a new code of best practice towards the fulfillment of...