Tag Archives: carbon audit
Are you a UK citizen who flies to Majorca at the drop of a hat? Do you crank up the heat in the winter, and the air-con in the summer? Maybe you can’t live without your SUV? Well there’s some bad news coming your way: if you are an energy-hogging British citizen you might just [...]
The Dutch are known to be earthy and sensible people, and thanks to the little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke, resourceful too. All these elements combined may be why the tiny country is, according to today’s featured guest the Climate Neutral Group, ranking second in Europe after the UK, in carbon offsetting.
In [...]
The practice of carbon offsetting as a means to lightening the impact of global warming on our earth is picking up steam. From carbon labels on suits and chips, to ways you can offset your wedding – Carbon Catalog hopes that carbon offsetting is well on its way to being a mainstream practice, like recycling [...]
There has been a slowdown in the global economy, but that’s not what seems to be the limiting factor in the global carbon market growth, which reached $64 billion in 2007, the World Bank reports in this Reuter’s story.
Reuters says that the global carbon market more than doubled in 2007 to $64 billion, but that [...]
(A Few Good Men: CLIMACT’s Pascal Vermeulen, Dimitri Mertens and Hugues de Meulemeester)
Carbon Catalog’s been globetrotting over the last few months, but virtually in a carbon neutral sort of way. During our travels, we’ve handpicked a sample of carbon offset providers from the offsetting world, in order to make sense of the market, because consumers [...]
The voluntary carbon offsetting market is young and because policies and strategies differ around the world – as well as opinions – we’ve been talking with a variety of organizations and companies.
Two weeks ago we interviewed America’s for-profit carbon offsetter, TerraPass. And previously, we cast our net wide and interviewed non-profit providers from countries such [...]
The question comes up among policy makers and those in the carbon offsetting business, and more recently among consumers: should carbon offset providers be non-profit entities, or will carbon emissions be more effectively reduced by for-profit companies who make money with every offset purchase?
After Carbon Catablog’s series of interviews from the non-profit world (see the [...]
The Internet makes almost everything easier these days – buying plane tickets, finding your true love, and managing your finances. But tread warily if you go online to reduce your carbon footprint, warns the Scotsman today.
“Carbon offsetting websites are inconsistent and confusing, with costs varying by up to 540 per cent,” says the Scotsman. The [...]
March 18, 2008 – 12:46 am
Making our way around the globe, today we speak with Canada’s non-profit carbon offset provider Offsetters.
In previous weeks, we’ve met with Goodplanet/Action Carbone from France who does not see “the offsetting environment as a competition.”
There’s been the non-profit take of the Swiss-based myclimate. They believe climate protection should not be done to “increase your own [...]
February 7, 2008 – 4:12 am
Over the past few weeks Carbon Catablog has been talking to providers in the voluntary market, working under the non-profit designation.
We’ve featured Russell from CarbonFund in the US: “Being a nonprofit allows us to focus solely on our mission: reduce greenhouse gases, fighting global warming, hastening the transition to a clean energy future;” and Phil [...]
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