Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
carbon credits, Tag
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – Successful Model? Wed, 6 Nov 19, 1:00amGuest post by Roger Caiazza The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is ten years old and has been touted as a successful example of a “cap and invest” pollution control program and now it is being proposed as the...
- Australia’s new NEG National Energy Plan hides a carbon tax, international carbon credits Thu, 19 Oct 17, 4:47pmGraham Lloyd points out we are back where started — a national plan involving international carbon credits: RepuTex analyst Hugh Grossman says the NEG, in effect, will establish a de facto price on greenhouse gas...
- Angela Merkel Reflects Fear and Loathing Amid EU Elites… Tue, 4 Jul 17, 9:00amInteresting Analysis at The Conservative Treehouse. I’m only posting only a small portion. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered some rather strongly worded remarks in advance of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg...
- “Green” cars cause real pollution, and now scamming fuel economy too – Half the CO2 “cuts” imaginary Wed, 30 Sep 15, 6:16pmCarbon markets = corruption Fake markets are easy to scam, because no one really wants or cares about “the product”. Fake markets are dangerous tools. Judging by the way people act, the point of carbon markets...
- Lo! Shark god protects us from storms, floods, heatwaves (sayth Nature & ABC) Wed, 30 Sep 15, 3:18amBig news: A new endogenous forcing found for climate change — sharks. For millions of years, you thought predator-prey relationships were just about big fish having dinner, but not so, they are climate forcings. Sharks...
- Turnbull is already saying climate policies are “not set in stone”. Beware the emissions trading scheme. Mon, 21 Sep 15, 9:01pmIt’s only been a week, and already the door is open to the emissions trading monster. The Nationals may have got Turnbull to agree in writing last Tuesday that he would not change the Abbott policies, but writing...
- Another carbon credit fraud – $2b. The faked fixed unfree market feeds crooks and makes no difference to emissions. Thu, 27 Aug 15, 3:24amMore news of how the faked fixed unfree market in carbon credits feeds the people who are inclined to cheat, and may have actually increased emissions by 600 million tonnes as well (not that that matters)...
- Scam, scam, scam - Josh 339 Wed, 26 Aug 15, 5:25amAnother well known scam that does not seem to bother 'them upstairs'. Astonishing.
- Stockholm Environment Institute: Carbon credits undercut climate change action Tue, 25 Aug 15, 5:30pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall A report by the Stockholm environment institute claims that a UN carbon credit scheme “significantly undermined” efforts to tackle global warming...
- The Pope puts the kibosh on carbon credit trading, calling it a ‘ploy’ Thu, 18 Jun 15, 11:19pmMaurizio Morabito originally observed that the Pope’s climate encyclical was a “damp squib”. For the most part it is harmless, but it does confront carbon credits and a “ploy”, albeit Pope Francis...
- California Moves to Revoke Carbon Credits After Inquiry Fri, 10 Oct 14, 4:22amCalifornia, operator of the nation’s biggest carbon market, plans to revoke offset credits issued to EOS Climate Inc. and Environmental Credit Corp. for ozone-depleting substances destroyed at a plant in violation of its...
- $260 / ton for carbon – the price of salvation Tue, 17 Jun 14, 7:02amLord Stern: Models ‘grossly underestimate’ costs of global warming Submitted by Eric Worrall Lord Stern, the British Academic who prepared the “Stern Review” on global warming for Prime Minister Tony...
- Are dead fish worth more than live person? Could be… Let’s ban fishing too. Fri, 6 Jun 14, 3:49pmDid you know you can change the weather by not eating deep sea fish? Me neither. But apparently fish and other marine life in the high seas contain $148 billion dollars worth of carbon dioxide. (The carbon price used, which...
- Japan slashes: Forget a 25% cut in CO2 emissions, now the target is a 3% rise! Sat, 16 Nov 13, 5:10amThe UN will not be happy about this. The global movement is falling apart. Japan, third largest economy in the world, and the land of Kyoto itself, has dumped their ambitious plan to reduce emissions by 25% by 2020. Now they...
- Dazzling STARPATH Pavement Lights Up the Night With Stored Solar Energy Wed, 23 Oct 13, 3:00amUK-based company Pro-Teq has developed a glow-in-the-dark product called "STARPATH" that can be applied to virtually any pavement surface to provide energy-free lighting once night falls...