Over the weekend there was news that a company called SGS was suspended by the United Nations from its role as an auditor of carbon offset projects. SGS had been appointed by the UN to check that offsetting projects were being set up properly and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Tags: Carbon Economy, carbon offset projects, climate change, DNV, EU, EU Emission Allowances, SGS, Sunday Times, United Nations

Carbonflow, a venture dedicated to bringing automation and transparency to the carbon market, is a web-based software technology that works to drastically lower the cost and time it takes to create a carbon credit. We took some time to connect with Neal Dikeman, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Carbonflow, to learn a bit more about this revolutionary product.

COD: How does Carbonflow help developers of GHG reduction projects?

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Tags: carbon erp, CarbonCompare, Carbonflow, CDM, Climate Change Directors, DNV, DOEs, eRecord, GHG reduction projects, Neal Dikeman, PDD, SGS, UNFCCC

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The UN has reinstated Det Norske Veritas (DNV) as an authorised verifier of emission reduction projects within the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offset scheme, after the company moved to improve its processes for validating and verifying projects.

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