Tag Archives: greenhouse gas
April 19, 2009 – 12:33 am
They may be behind in women’s rights, but two Middle East countries Qatar and United Arab Emirates seem to be ahead of the pack in their bid to fight global warming. Two important announcements were made in the last week:
Etihad Airways from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it is working with Masdar [...]
January 6, 2009 – 7:38 am
Airlines striking deals with carbon offsetters might not like this development, but we sure do: San Francisco International Airport will soon be offering certified carbon offset credits for purchase at kiosks inside the airport.
It is the first airport to offer such kiosks in the world. The only thing we don’t like about the service is [...]
September 18, 2008 – 4:01 am
Eight steps to making your business carbon neutral
It’s a good idea –– both for the planet and your company’s corporate social responsibility goals –– to think about and implement ways of reducing your carbon emissions. But where does one start? Today Carbon Catalog speaks with Carbon Concierge, a consultancy firm that helps businesses take on [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Posted in How-To
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Also tagged Business, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon offset, consulting, CSR, electricity, energy efficiency, Finance, global warming, offset provider, supply chain, transportation
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August 24, 2008 – 6:29 am
If you are representing a business, or just want to buy carbon offsets to lighten your personal carbon load, no doubt you’ve been confused as to where you put your money. Prices for offsets can vary wildly from $10 to $25 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, and its equivalent (not all greenhouse gases are [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Posted in Providers, Science
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Also tagged Australia, Belgium, buying offsets, Canada, carbon emission, carbon neutral, carbon offset, carbon trading, France, global warming, Netherlands, offset provider, Switzerland, United States, voluntary offset market
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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 [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Posted in How-To
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Also tagged carbon offset, carbon offsetting, clean energy, clean technology, climate change, energy independence, fossil fuel, fuel efficiency, government, green investments, greenhouse gas emissions, Policy, United Kingdom
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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.
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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 [...]
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