carbon credits, Tag

According to a whistleblower, the Australian government has wasted over $1 billion of taxpayer money on the carbon credits system. Professor Andrew Macintosh, former head of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, spent...

The Coalition must be thrilled. The Australia election is due in the next six months, it’s on a knife edge which the current government could easily lose, and the Opposition leader just announced that instead of the...

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...