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Trading carbon, with the help of Point Carbon has compiled a set of results based on factual data to show the leading emission reduction project activities in 2009.
A summary of the results can be located in the link below and EcoSecurities were pleased to be recognized as the leading project participant by registered projects 2009 as well as achieving joint third in the validated projects category.
Download: full survey results (PDF)
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From EcoSecurities:
Is your company involved in forestry? Which project types do you prefer? Or do you feel forestry is too risky? – It’s time to have your say by clicking here.
Forestry is starting to gain more momentum and importance in the fight against climate change. We would like to build on last year’s forest carbon findings by asking organisations who are already engaged in, or thinking about engaging in green issues what their current opinions of forest carbon offsetting are. To make this report as useful and comprehensive as possible we need your help and invaluable contribution!
We would therefore like to invite you to anonymously contribute you thoughts and opinions by simply clicking this survey link:
Forest Carbon Offsetting Survey 2010
The deadline for the data collection is Feb 28th 2010 and the final report will be published and freely available towards the end of April 2010.
Thank you in advance for your help and support.
For further information please email us at marketing at ecosecurities dot com or you can download your free copy of last year’s report by clicking here.
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At Carbon Retirement, we have just published a short piece of research into the efficiency of carbon offsetting through the Clean Development Mechanism, covered by the BBC. It shows that for every £1 spent on CERs by voluntary buyers, 28p goes to the project’s capital expenditure and maintenance costs.
The chart below, from the report, summarises the costs per CER, with the grey chunks representing project expenditure. Project costs total £3.78 per CER, or 28% of the price paid by the final buyer.
Costs in the CDM market, per CER
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The president and co-founder of the nonprofit Carbonfund.org, Eric Carlson, was a guest today on WAMU-FM’s Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss green travel for the holidays. He was on the first half hour along with Nancy Young, Vice President of Environmental Affairs for the Air Transport Association.
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Organizations with sustainability interests are beginning to look beyond the spheres of facilities and supply chain management, instituting programs that engage their employees on environmental behavior. Most Americans spend 1/3 or more of their lives in the workplace or working from home, and employees are the front-line of any organization. Programs that encourage employees to make sustainable choices can have significant impacts on an organization’s direct environmental impact from building energy and business travel to procurement and waste generation, and they can encourage indirect reductions in the impact of employees’ commuting, consumption, and energy use habits.
Employee engagement programs can also play a key strategic role beyond the sphere of emissions, offsets, and other environmental goals, by helping build brand image, retain and attract employees, and realize significant cost savings. Walmart, for example, has met success on various fronts with their high-profile Personal Sustainability Project.
The world of employee engagement programs is still nascent, and relatively little is known about the extent or nature of these strategies, or about how effective or well-received they are. This short online survey is designed to help answer those questions. Check back here next month to take a look at the findings.
Click here to add your voice and be entered into a drawing to win $200 cash.
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| By Patti Prairie CEO, Brighter Planet |
Let’s be frank. Carbon offsets are controversial. And so apparently is global warming. Just 57% of Americans, according to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and People & the Press’s recent survey, think there’s solid evidence that the earth is warming. That’s down 14% from a year ago.
Worse still, just when scientists are remarkably aligned on the climate crisis, 2 out of 3 Americans think that global warming is not a serious problem or even caused by humans. And when it comes to carbon offsets, the public’s attitude toward offsets is tepid. Consumers are wary of intangible products, and their distrust of large, distant offset projects is deepened by political discourse in the media.
The once promising growth of individual offset sales is stalling as the U.S. economy sputters. The State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2009 reported that the voluntary offset market grew 187% from 2007 to 2008 while individual purchases fell by 25%. It’s tempting to brush off individuals as a negligible sliver of the broader offset market, but when governments at every level are struggling to secure voter support for legislative climate action, public perception of carbon offsets is critical.
We recently surveyed our customers to better understand their mental models.
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By Chris Doherty, Carbon Neutral Ltd
Carbon offsets or credits are financial products that represent 1 tonne of greenhouse gases not released into, or removed from, the atmosphere. Individuals, companies and governments purchase these products to offset the impact of the greenhouse gas emissions they release. Offsets are produced and traded under a wide variety of regulatory and voluntary schemes supported by multiple different standards. While at first glance the trading in something as intangible as a tonne of gas which may or may not actually exist appears somewhat asinine, the reality is far from that. The ability of the project to provide additional benefits in addition to the carbon offset can be extraordinary.
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| Sourced From Haddock-research.com |
Free summaries are available for down load, Visit the above site for the list of summaries available. A portion of the indroduction of the summary titled ” Power Generation ” is given below.
This is the third of a series of 14 reports from our Environmental Choices™ 2008 survey. (This is the free summary version with only a selection of charts being shown.) In this section report we focus on power generation. Coal is a plentiful, high-carbon fuel which poses a grave threat to our climate.
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Dublin 23rd September 2009: EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker McKenzie LLP, a leading climaate change law firm and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Report 2009.
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View thesis (blog) or full (pdf).
Background
The concept of climate change began to attract attention in the 19th Century but it was not until the 1970s did substantial debate occur. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol became the first environmentally focused, global, legally binding document. It has set limits on carbon emissions, officially defined the six greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC and SF6) and utilised three mechanisms (Emissions trading, clean development mechanism and joint implementation) to assist the market in financially viable emission reduction schemes. The voluntary carbon market emerged to fulfill the demand from organizations and businesses that wished to reduce their carbon emissions outside and beyond the compliance market.
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The Responsible Purchasing Guide for Carbon Offsets: guide produced in partnership with Carbonfund.org, is published by the Responsible Purchasing Network in print, as a PDF file, and on the web. Print and PDF copies are available to the public. The online edition includes additional resources available to members of the Responsible Purchasing Network, including: searchable product listings, multiple policy and specification samples, comparisons of standards, and related documents. Visit ResponsiblePurchasing.org to obtain a copy or to access the web-based edition of the Guide.
Read the press release
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| Sourced From CarbonCatalog.org |
As in the two previous years, Ecosystem Marketplace http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/
and New Carbon Finance http://www.newcarbonfinance.com/ have released their annual report on the state of the voluntary carbon markets.
The document, subtitled Fortifying the Foundation, is based on the reported activity during 2008 of 182 developers, aggregators, brokers and retailers of voluntary carbon credits.
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| Sourced From OffsetQualityInitiative.org |
OQI Publishes Brief, “Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets”
The World Resources Institute Analyzes Offset Quality in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
Read Brief
http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Web.pdf
Read Executive Summary
http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Exec%20Sum%20Web.pdf
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Introduction
On 15 December 2008 the Commonwealth Government released a White Paper outlining the final design of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) and the medium-term target range for reducing emissions. Following this, the Government released a Discussion Paper and draft National Carbon Offset Standard (the Standard) intended to apply to voluntary abatement activity that occurs beyond that imposed by the Scheme.
The purpose of this paper is to clarify key elements of the proposed Standard, which will have significant implications for voluntary abatement action and current approaches to carbon offsetting and carbon neutrality. It is intended that this paper will assist interested parties who wish to make a submission on some of the key issues raised in the Discussion Paper.
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