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Spelman, Riley compete to reduce carbon prints
Austin City Council Members Chris Riley and Bill Spelman won election last May on promises to be environmental stewards. On Tuesday, they announced that they will be competing against each other to see who can do more to reduce greenhouse gases, which many scientists say contribute to global climate change.
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LONDON – Demand for voluntary carbon offsets declined in December, traditionally one of the market’s busiest months, as a slow year meant retailers did not face the usual scramble to square their books, market players said.
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If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five star hotels will have little to show for their efforts beyond a big, fat carbon footprint.
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PR Log (Press Release) – Dec 14, 2009 – The business world’s response to climate change is examined in detail in a four-part joint report, published today by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and GRI (the Global Reporting Initiative), called “High Impact Sectors: the Challenge of Reporting on Climate Change.”
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is flying to Copenhagen on a private jet, as he does most places he travels. Bloomberg a staunch proponent of the green movement is big on telling folks what to do and how to do it in order to save the planet, but as outlined in a New York Times article, he’s not very good at following his own advice.
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(CNN) — Could China be the world’s green champion? It seems unlikely. The vast nation is typically portrayed as a dire threat to the planet, with a booming population and a commitment to that dirtiest of fuels — coal.
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Clients of the Cueto Law Group in Miami, Florida can now pay up to 20% of their legal fees with carbon credits.
I love reading about innovative solutions to the environmental crisis that we face. The Cueto Law Group, which is based in Miami, Florida, now has a program that allows its clients to pay up to 20% of their legal bill with carbon credits. This idea is in response to the Copenhagen Climate Summit’s call for innovation.
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For a small country, Denmark sure attracts a lot of attention. A Chicago Muslim, David Headley, was recently arrested at O’Hare International Airport en route to Copenhagen to kill the commissioning editor and artists of the Danish Muhammad cartoons. Alas, a far bigger group flying in to Copenhagen for a massive suicide bombing were permitted to board their flights: these were the jet-setting bigwigs of the climate-change circuit en route to Denmark to blow up the global economy and individual liberty in order to get back to paradise and enjoy their reward of 72 virgin-growth forests.
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During the Copenhagen Climate Summit, carbon offsets are a topic for discussion. Carbon offests are “essentially a service whereby the purchaser pays someone else to create greenhouse gas reductions on his or her behalf” (The Suzuki Foundation). Since the inception of the Kyoto Protocol, they have been a popular mechanism to encourage awareness about climate change, and to reduce carbon emissions. However, according the US News “officials [at Copenhagen] will be considering which types of offset programs work and can actually be enforced,” because “there’s a big potential for fraud here.” To date, there is no formal regulation of carbon offsets, and there are a number of concerns with their use.
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More than a third of Legal Sector Alliance (LSA) firms have reduced their carbon footprint over the last year, according to a report by the climate change action group.
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HP Australia says it has reduced the carbon footprint of its Imaging & Printing Group (IPG) after revising its supply chain model.
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SEVERN Trent Water has received an award for its carbon reduction and management programmes.
The company, which supplies full water services to South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire and sewerage services to East Staffordshire, was awarded the Carbon Trust Standard after it demonstrated a reduction in its carbon emissions and robust carbon management standard.
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PAITHAN: PepsiCo India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the US beverages and snack food major, is looking at monitoring its carbon footprint and
entering the carbon trading business.
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Sweden is the first European country that will adopt compulsory indication on labels of CO2 contained in foods (the so-called “carbon footprint, that is CO2 emissions caused by the production process).A reduction up to 50% of CO2 emissions in the country is thus expected.
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A model for future carbon calculators, Bloom offers a wide array of ‘carbon seeds’ visualizing how little actions can add up to something big (and pretty).
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