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Chicago data center provider Steadfast Networks has purchased carbon credits from a non-profit environmentalist organization in February, offsetting about 127 tons of CO2 emissions. Contribution to Carbonfund.org is part of the company’s wider initiative to reduce the company’s direct or related carbon footprint.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Steadfast Networks (http://steadfast.net) announced on Tuesday it has purchased enough carbon offset credits to offer a 100 percent carbon offset for its staff commuting, office usage, core infrastructure, networking equipment, shared web hosting, VPS hosting, and backup services.
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Carbon offsets, carbon exchange markets, emissions credits, cap and trade, emissions trading. These assorted terms all describe the various forms of carbon trading, from the individual wishing to offset his or her airline flight, to heavy industry compliance with federally mandated emissions reductions schemes, to the speculator simply plying the market for profit. While the mechanics may differ from one program to the next, the fundamental idea is the same – the commoditization of carbon emissions.
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The UN shaved its forecast for 2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets this week, despite a rise in the number issued by its climate change secretariat last month.
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Kendal firm given grant to reduce carbon output
A KENDAL firm has been given £22,800 to make it more efficient.
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New car market gets greener with reduction in carbon dioxide emissions
AUSTRALIA’S new car market is getting greener, having achieved the lowest average carbon dioxide emissions on record.
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Utah Legislature: Carbon credit bill gets blocked again by Chris Buttars
SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Chris Buttars is the latest GOP lawmaker to put a hold on a bill that would allow Utah communities to sell carbon credits.
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Jaguar Land Rover in new carbon technology project
Jaguar Land Rover has been confirmed as one of seven partners in a new Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project
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Drax says it’s ‘condemned’ to carbon future
Drax, which unveiled full-year pre-tax profits down 64pc at £158m, is currently agonising over whether to invest in £2bn projects to burn natural materials such as wood chips. It also adds biomass to its Yorkshire-based coal-fired plant, which generates 7pc of the UK’s electricity.
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Opinion: Copenhagen’s lack of detail is a blow for low- carbon business
JUST over two months since the final all-night negotiations which went into finalising the Copenhagen Accord, viewpoints on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change conference (COP15) have been extremely mixed. On the positive side, the Copenhagen Accord has been described as an “important political tool”, “vital first step”, or in the words of President Obama, a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough”. On the negative side, however, the descriptions have ranged from “climate change scepticism in action”, “fiasco”, “death warrant” or more graphically, a “colossal pile of fudge”.
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Report: Wyo formation could hold 50 years of CO2
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A new report by the Wyoming State Geological Survey says an underground formation in southwestern Wyoming could hold as much carbon dioxide as 50 years of emissions from two large coal-fired power plants.
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EU industry CO2 fell 11 pct in 2009 -analysts
LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions by companies regulated under the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme fell by 11 percent last year in the wake of the economic downturn, analysts said on Thursday.
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Opinion: Cleantech Forum: A New Way to Wire Lights, CO2-Powered Air Conditioning and Algae Nets
San Francisco-Ian Turner wants to get rid of wire and replace it with computer cable.
Turner, CEO of England’s Juice Technology Limited, has come up with a system for replacing the wiring for lights in buildings with twisted pair cables. LED lights are hooked onto the cable — without splicing into the cable — and soon after, they emit light. Energy from the still-covered cable is transferred to the light through magnets contained in the LED light fixture through induction. We spoke this morning at the Cleantech Forum taking place in San Francisco.
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Opinion:Â US should commit to carbon cap-and-trade legislation
There is widespread agreement within the U.S. scientific and industrial communities that immediate adoption of a carbon cap-and-trade system is critical. By implementing concrete carbon emission reduction goals, we take a responsible step toward minimizing the negative impacts of climate change on our future environment and economy.
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Opinion:Â Â Cap and Trade vs Carbon Tax – 6 Myths Busted
In the midst of the debate over exactly what commitments will come out of the Copenhagen Accord follow-up discussions, and how a cap and trade system to incorporate those might work, we asked long time carbon trader Olivia Fussell, the CEO of Carbon Credit Capital in New York, to opine a bit on myths on cap and trade v carbon tax for the layman. Cleantech Blog has written lots on this topic, but it always needs more.
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Indian CDM market on shaky ground
India’s position as one of the leading markets for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects is currently on shaky ground, say market experts.
Both the lack of clarity to emerge from global climate change talks in Copenhagen last year and the increasing attractiveness of domestic government incentive schemes are deterring investment in CDM in India.
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Seminars: Arabia CSR Network holds workshop on carbon emissions offsetting and trading
The Arabia CSR Network held its first workshop of 2010 on 18 February in the Center of Excellence, DIFC. While the Arabia CSR Network itself was launched at the Arabia CSR Awards ceremony on 26 October 2009, the Network’s predecessor, the EEG CSR Network, has had a long track record in advancing Corporate Social Responsibility in the UAE and Gulf region through workshops, seminars and CSR training sessions.
This first workshop under the Arabia CSR Network banner focused on the much debated issue of Carbon Emissions Offsetting and Trading, and brought together an impressive line up of international, regional and local experts on the subject. With the central question of the day being whether Carbon Emissions Offsetting and Trading is a failure or represents the future, both advocates and sceptics were heard.
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Publication: Pew Center Briefs Point to Clean Energy Jobs, Detail Carbon Market Oversight
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change has released two timely publications that make the case for market-based clean energy and climate solutions.
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Opinion: France Pushes for Carbon Tax by July 2010
The French government is working towards implementation of a direct carbon tax by July 2010. France’s Constitutional Council struck down the first version of the carbon tax bill last 29 December. On 21 January 2010, the government proposed a number of amendments to the original legislation, which is aimed at encouraging French consumers to be more energy efficient and conscious of their energy decisions.
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Green zone as carbon cure
The Maidan, the lush expanse of green spread across 5sq km in the heart of the city, acts as the lungs of Calcutta. It is the biggest carbon sink in the metropolis, recently crowned the carbon capital of India.
A carbon sink is a natural or manmade reservoir that stores carbon- containing chemical compounds for an indefinite period. Other than oceans, plants act as natural carbon sinks, absorbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, through photosynthesis.
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Opinion: Carbon prices too low to be economical, says Drax
Price of carbon and other incentives for renewable energy need to be boosted if the authorities want Drax, the UK’s biggest coal-based power plant, to shift to environment friendly fuels, the company’s Chief Executive Dorothy Thompson said on Friday.
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Opinion:Â NGA meeting will hear carbon debate
MONTPELIER — A spokesman for Gov. James Douglas says the governor is expected to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant at a meeting of the National Governors Association.
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Bill Gates TED discussion on Energy and Zero carbon footprint finally gets posted
As the founder of the biggest software company ever, Bill Gates has always been controversial. Period. Say what you will, Gates is not only loved and hated, he is listened to and in my opinion one of the most influential people that has impacted our society.
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Billions at stake in carbon trading scheme
South Canterbury’s district councils could be in line for a share of a multibillion-dollar compensation package for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Under the ETS, landowners who fell more than two hectares of trees planted before 1990 will incur a fee if they do not replace them. However, all post-1990 forests can qualify for carbon credits once harvested.
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Press Release: NYK and MHI Begin Experiments on Air-Lubrication System; 10% CO2 Reduction Expected by Lowering Seawater Resistance
Tokyo, Feb 24, 2010 (JCN Newswire via COMTEX) — NYK and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. are to begin experiments on an air-lubrication system to reduce CO2 emissions during marine transport. Jointly developed by the two companies, the system effectively reduces the frictional resistance between a vessel’s bottom and the seawater by means of bubbles generated by supplying air to the vessel’s bottom. The world’s first permanent installation of the system using an air-blower is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 10 percent.
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Co2, Mass Extinction Of Species And Climate Change
The release of more than 370 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC), as well as the depletion of vegetation, have triggered a fundamental shift in the state of the atmosphere [1]. Raising atmospheric CO2 level at a rate of 2 ppm/year, a pace unprecedented in the geological record, with the exception of the effects of CO2 released from craters excavated by large asteroid impacts, the deleterious effects of pollution and deforestation have reached a geological dimension, tracking toward conditions which existed on Earth in the mid-Pliocene, about 2.8 million years ago [2].
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Per capita CO2 emissions to rise 3-fold by 2030
India’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions will increase by nearly three-fold to 3.5 tonnes by 2030, the Economic Survey 2009-10 said on Thursday.
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Poor nations could be paid to preserve marine CO2 – U.N.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Developing countries could in future earn money from reducing carbon emissions by protecting oceans and marine ecosystems, a top U.N. official said on Thursday.
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Ruling kills Romanian OTC carbon permit trading
* Romanian regulators class EUAs as financial instruments
* Foreign traders must join exchanges, OTC to suffer
* Ruling, exchange trade to prevent EUA tax fraud -SIBEX
* Traders say move possibly illegal as EU Commission weighs
BUCHREST/LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Romania’s securities regulator have defined European Union carbon permits as financial instruments, a move which will force all its emissions trading onto one of the country’s exchanges.
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Opinion: Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits
Poor farming practices have degraded the world’s soils causing them to release carbon that should have stayed in the soil. In the past 150 years soils have released twice as much carbon as fuel burning. Improved farming methods could quickly rebuild degraded land and store enough carbon to offset the damage already done by fuel burning. Dr Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, a leading expert on soil carbon, estimates that the potential of economical carbon sequestration in world soils may be .65 billion to 1.1 billion tons per year for the next 50 years. This is enough to draw down atmospheric CO2 by 50 ppm by 2100. This is a one-time opportunity, however. We must ultimately stop burning fossil fuels.
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Opinion: California to Withdraw Harmful “Carbon Credits for Clearcuts” Forest Policy
SACRAMENTO – February 12 – In response to a formal legal letter filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Air Resources Board has proposed to withdraw its adoption of a “Forest Project Protocol” that would have allowed logging companies to earn valuable carbon credits for clearcutting projects and other destructive practices. At its February 25 meeting, the Board will consider reversing its adoption of the protocol pending a legally required review of environmental impacts to forests and the climate.
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Opinion: Olympic carbon offsets for dummies
The problem with the political discussion about climate change these days is its “let’s pretend” nature.
Much like Environment Minister Jim Prentice was pretending this week that the $150,000 Canada is spending on carbon offsets will “help offset the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its Olympic Games.”
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Press Release: To date 25,000t of CO2 Emissions Avoided by Photovoltaic Plants Arsol-1 and Arsol Toledo
The two plants developed by Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas have produced a total of 55 GWh since they came into operation two years ago Both plants, located in Ciudad Real and Toledo, Spain, are producing highly efficient clean energy with a total of 15 MW of power.
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Lancashire drivers urged to lower CO2 for Lent
DRIVERS are urged to consider lowering their CO2 emissions for Lent.
Lancashire County Council said it could also help save money on fuel and make roads safer.
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Opinion: Texas takes legal action against federal government over EPA CO2 mandates
Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said the state is taking legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
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£60m bill for the CO2 of our political class
One could not want a better vignette of the gulf that has opened up between our “political class” and the rest of us than a bizarre little item which emerged last week on an obscure part of the European Commission’s website. The British Government, as revealed by the EU’s Official Journal, has allocated £60 million of taxpayers’ money to be spent on buying carbon credits from the Third World for the use of government buildings and other official purposes – so that our civil servants can continue to benefit from the CO2 emissions needed to keep their offices warm and lit.
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CO2 emissions down from 2008 to 2009
According to a recent analysis of US Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide (CO2) data for 2008-2009, there has been an overall CO2 improvement of 2.8 per cent across all US cars and trucks.
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Governments ‘misjudging’ scale of CO2 emissions
Policy makers in Europe and United States are markedly underestimating the changes needed to mitigate CO2 emission required to prevent dangerous climate change because they work in ’silos’, according to pioneering research.
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Opinion: Firms delay CO2 cap technology
Companies in the UAE are delaying their investments into technologies that help cap carbon dioxide emissions by three years, insiders of the carbon trade industry told Emirates Business.
The Middle East carbon trade potential is estimated to be worth $5 billion (Dh18.3bn) annually. Carbon trade market in Europe is estimated to be worth €100bn (Dh499.8bn) and is expected to grow to €800bn by 2020.
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Opinion: Calculating a car’s CO2 emissions from its mpg
Motorists who drive cars that were first registered before 2001 are unlikely to be aware of how much CO2 their vehicle emits.
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Opinion: CO2 Mass Extinction Of Species And Climate Change
The release of more than 370 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC), as well as the depletion of vegetation, have triggered a fundamental shift in the state of the atmosphere [1]. Raising atmospheric CO2 level at a rate of 2 ppm/year, a pace unprecedented in the geological record, with the exception of the effects of CO2 released from craters excavated by large asteroid impacts, the deleterious effects of pollution and deforestation have reached a geological dimension, tracking toward conditions which existed on Earth in the mid-Pliocene, about 2.8 million years ago [2].
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UPDATE 2-U.S. EPA to soften CO2 requirements on industry
* EPA considers raising greenhouse gas permit threshold
* Senators from coal states complained rules too tough
* Sen. Rockefeller hints at legislation stopping EPA
* EPA to issue greenhouse gas rules next month (Releads, adds byline, Rockefeller, environmentalists)
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday it would slow a phase-in of new limits on carbon dioxide from coal and other heavy industry plants to ease concerns about the impact on the economy.
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U.S. Northeast Carbon Falls as Federal CO2 Trading Bill Stalls
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Carbon dioxide permits in the U.S. Northeast’s cap-and-trade program for power plants fell to their lowest level this year on waning public concern over emissions that scientists blame for global warming.
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ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX-V: ESR) has closed its previously announced private placement. The private placement consists of 7,360,000 common shares for C$0.75 per share resulting in gross proceeds of C$5,520,000. The sole subscriber to the placement was Forest Carbon Group AG (FCG), an affiliate of HEAG Sudhessische Energie AG. FCG now owns 7,360,000 shares which constitute 29.9% of the issued capital of the company.
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With an unexpected lack of snow making skiers’ lives miserable at this year’s Olympics, Vancouver is smartly following the trend of going greener than the Olympics before it. Carbon offsets and recycling bins are as old school as a 720 on the snowboard half pipe, so the Canucks had to get a bit more creative to ensure the 2014 games in Russia take place in a world where snow still falls over Sochi in February.
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The panel in charge of the UN’s carbon offsetting scheme the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has again rejected applications from a number of wind energy projects as it seeks to bolster confidence in the controversial scheme.
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* Buyers favour specific offset credits
* Ending transactions slow as players do back-to-back deals
LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Buying activity in the voluntary carbon market has been quite slow recently as buyers favour very specific types of offset credits and it is difficult to source such clean energy projects.
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When the Vancouver Games commence next Friday, Coca-Cola is aiming for its own gold medal of sorts: its first zero-waste, carbon-neutral Olympics sponsorship. The beverage giant hopes to take sustainable event planning to a new level with drink bottles made from 30 percent plant-based materials, delivered by hybrid cars and electric carts to cafés decked out in furniture that’s made from pine-beetle-salvaged wood.
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TAXPAYERS will foot the bill for big polluters under an opposition plan that will rely primarily on the federal government paying for measures to offset carbon emissions.
The Coalition party room was briefed this morning on an alternative to the government’s emissions trading scheme.
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What do Nike, REI, the Vancouver Olympics, and the Washington state government have in common? They’ve all promised to eliminate their impact on the climate by going “carbon–neutral.” REI aims to have zero output of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide by the year 2020. But since REI set the zero–impact goal, its emissions have been heading rapidly in the opposite direction.
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A new corporate responsibility report issued by the shoe and apparel manufacturer Nike highlights the progress the company has made in reducing its environmental footprint and the ways in which its climate change strategy is evolving — including its decision to abandon carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates as means of achieving carbon neutrality.
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