This week saw the release of the 2008 State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, subtitled “Forging a Frontier”.
A joint work by Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance, the report is based on a survey of 150 players in the carbon offset market. Direct download here [2Mb PDF].
It’s a treasure trove of data on […]
WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, just released a report on standards in the carbon offset industry. The report’s full title is “A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards - Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market”. You can download the PDF here (3 Mb).
Carbon is often described as the world’s most complex commodity. […]
It’s been 6 months since Carbon Catalog was launched, and 3 months since the first blog post. It’s time to talk about some recent updates to the site as well as future directions.
The most popular page on Carbon Catalog is the list of offset providers. This lets you compare and contrast 74 (and growing!) offset […]
February 21, 2008 – 7:25 am
This week, the UK government finally released its Code of Best Practice for carbon offsetting. Actually, it’s just a draft, and even that took a year of debate and consultations. That’s what happens when government tries to get its head around controversy, confusion, and more than a few vested interests.
You can read the full document […]
January 22, 2008 – 11:04 am
So the Fed came out with guns ablazing, slashing interest rates by 0.75%.
But the markets are yet to find solace. They’re still choking on a toxic cocktail of foreclosures, inflation, oil prices and the credit crunch. Michael Metz, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, is not among the optimists. He thinks the US is facing […]
January 16, 2008 – 10:16 am
On January 8th, America’s Federal Trade Commission held a workshop on carbon offsets. This echoed UK government consultations earlier this year on creating a Code of Best Practice for the offsetting industry.
The workshop in Washington DC focused on consumer protection. In other words: How can offset buyers ensure they aren’t being deceived?
January 7, 2008 – 10:52 am
I recently spent a few weeks in California’s endemic car culture, and it got me thinking about oil supply and climate change. America seems to depend on cars in a much more extreme way than Europe or Asia. But all over the world - including China with its 1.3 billion people - economies are […]
December 1, 2007 – 10:30 am
Welcome to The Carbon Catablog, our in-house blog at Carbon Catalog.
You probably know about global warming. Maybe you even saw Al Gore’s movie. It’s common knowledge that the problem is our energy-intensive way of life. But short of moving back to a cave, what can you do about it?
Carbon offsets claim to balance your contribution […]
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