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Showing customers the environmental impact of driving, French car rental company now lists CO2 emissions for its rental cars. The information can be found both on the company’s website, and on customer invoices, allowing conscientious drivers to take emissions into account when choosing a rental car, as well as reminding them after the fact. Customers are also offered the chance to offset their emissions via a collaboration with . Instead of planting trees, Climate Care assists with the development of renewable fuel sources and more efficient systems—arguably a more effective way of tackling carbon emissions than planting trees.
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Posted on July 16, 2009 · in Europe
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ANDY MEAD MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, Published: June 6, 2009
HAWESVILLE, Ky. — Beside a cow pasture in Hancock County, scientists are drilling through 8,000 feet of rock, hoping to learn how to lock away forever an invisible gas that threatens Earth’s climate and our way of life.
Science fiction? No, but it’s a science experiment that, if it works, would be carried out on a scale never before seen.
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Posted on June 8, 2009 · in USA
It’s a known fact that investments in renewables such as wind, solar, hydro power or reforestation projects are widely used forms of carbon offsets. But who knew that investing in cook-stoves could earn carbon credits? did.
The investment bank is currently involved in a project that Not only do the stoves work with lower amounts of fuel, bring about a reduction in the pollutants that have an adverse effect on the lungs, but also each stove reduces carbon emissions by 2 or 3 tons per year as compared to regular ones. The idea to use these stoves for earning carbon credits was developed by the offset provider – that was purchased by JPMorgan last year.
The venture is expected to rake in huge amounts of revenues and JPMorgan has plans of expanding the cook-stove project to cover Kenya, Ghana, Cambodia along with other regions. The credits earned by the bank are being sold to retailers such as and Aviva Insurance.
Posted on August 12, 2008 · in Carbon Market News
