| Sourced From Travel Bite |
Car rental firm Europcar and no-frills airline easyJet have announced a special initiative to increase customers’ awareness about the benefits of offsetting carbon emissions.
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EU denounces socialite’s carbon offset project
| Sourced From Times Online |
A PIONEERING climate change project in Africa run by Robin Birley, the socialite, has been accused by the European commission, its main donor, of making unsubstantiated claims about its environmental impact.
UN meeting on climate change to release 13,000 tonnes of CO2 in atmosphere!
| Sourced From Entertainment and Showbiz |
BA meeting of a UN (United Nations) body that aims to devise ways to fight climate change, may ironically add around 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) to Earth’s greenhouse effect.
Stern hope over US climate deal
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Economist Lord Stern has said he is optimistic a global deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions will be struck under Barack Obama’s US presidency.
FACTBOX-U.N. CO2 credits: what are they and how do they work?
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Dec 31 (Reuters) - Industrialised nations can meet U.N.-sanctioned greenhouse gas targets by buying emissions credits under three different trading schemes now worth billions of dollars a year.
WSJ Slams Dell Over Carbon Neutral Claim
| Sourced From Environmental Leader |
The Wall Street Journal has slammed Dell over the announcement it made back in August about reaching its carbon neutral goal.
The problem, according to WSJ, is that Dell only counts the “emissions produced by its boilers and company-owned cars, its buildings’ electricity use, and its employees’ business air travel.”
US traders cross Pond for carbon market work experience
| Sourced From Business Green |
Growing numbers of US financial firms have started to play on the European Climate Exchange (ECX) as they seek to gain experience of how carbon markets operate ahead of the launch of a US cap-and-trade scheme.
Calls for ’speed-limiting’ cars
| Sourced From BBC |
Speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars on a voluntary basis to help save lives and cut carbon emissions, according to a new report.
The government’s transport advisers claim the technology would cut road accidents with injuries by 29%.
Coalition targets carbon policy gap
| Sourced From The Age |
THE Coalition will unveil a major policy on deforestation and agriculture in a renewed effort to take on the Rudd Government, which has faced wide-ranging criticism of its greenhouse targets and climate change policies.
Bring tree farmers into carbon markets, Icraf urges
| Sourced From The East African |
Despite their contribution to reducing carbon emissions there is still no agreement globally on how to enlist millions of smallholder farmers who grow trees on their farms in global efforts to fight climate change.
UN: CDM Increasing Emission-Saving Initiatives, Critics Disagree
| Sourced From Environmental Leader |
The United Nations claims that its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is causing an increase in emission-saving initiatives around the world, BusinessGreen reports.
The war on carbon
| Sourced From The Times |
At the last full-scale United Nations conference on global warming, in Bali, the man in charge broke down and wept. American opposition to mandatory carbon cuts had been implacable. Canada and Japan had joined the US in demanding cuts from the big developing economies before promising any themselves. Then China accused Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, of a minor breach of protocol. After two weeks of trying and failing to save the world, it was the last straw. He had to be escorted from the building.
Consumers Utilize Carbon Offset Programs
| Sourced From WBZ |
Most of us know we can help the environment by recycling and conserving energy, but now some people are looking to do more about the pollution they create. Carbon offset programs are becoming more popular, but you need to be careful about how you spend your money on these programs.
SanFran airport to feature carbon offset kiosks
| Sourced From Herald Tribune |
SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco International Airport is planning to give guilt-ridden travelers a chance to offset the air pollution emitted from their plane rides.
Chicago 2016 joins Climate Exchange
| Sourced From Chicago Business |
(Crain’s) — Chicago 2016, the group behind the city’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, is going green.
