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UK Quality Assurance Scheme Picks Up Steam

March 22, 2009 – 6:54 am

First discussed on Carbon Catablog a year ago, the UK government has finally launched its “Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting”.
A quality mark, shown alongside, can be used by offset providers to label specific carbon offsets that meet the government’s guidelines. (Our inclusion of the mark here is for informative purposes, and bears no relation [...]

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Countdown: Humanity Has Only 100 Months to Save the Planet From Climate Change Tipping Point

August 3, 2008 – 6:27 am

Now is the time to scream “Fire!” So writes Andrew Simms, the policy director and head of the climate change program at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) –– a “think and do tank” –– in an opinion editorial at the Guardian. Carbon Catalog has heard an even less conservative five year estimate from experts we’ve [...]

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UK releases Offset Code of Best Practice

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.
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