carbon credits, Tag

Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal, but another challenge awaits: lowering the levels of CO2 and other substances already in the atmosphere...

Carbon trading is turning into a lucrative business, with more projects claiming credits. Case in point, a seagrass project off the coast of Virginia that has helped restore over 9,000 acres of an ecosystem that...

Surprise - According to The Guardian, airline carbon credit "projects had routinely overstated their emissions reductions".

Don't mention the "N" word; The Strategist thinks the New Zealand Navy receiving money from the Treasury, then paying that money back to the Treasury to purchase carbon credits is some kind of achievement...

Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Lewis, UCL French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of “carbon neutral liquid natural gas”...

Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon.

Cuba's dictatorship has developed a sudden interest in converting the poverty the Cuban people into hard currency carbon credit payments.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The EU, UK and Australia are funding experiments in “flexible” carbon rationing, in which people receive a set weekly carbon allowance, with a mobile app to deduct from their allowance...

Just when you think banks are only in it for the money, along comes Goldman Sachs to advise us on the planetary atmosphere:

There’s another round of push-poll fake surveys telling us how much the public want action on climate change. Part of the aim is to scare politicians and trick them into thinking that voters won’t vote for skeptics...

Guest 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...

Graham 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...

Interesting 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...

Carbon 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...

Big 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...