Sentences with phrase «carbon credit trading»

This leads me to a question for the folks who are at the leading edge of the voluntary markets for personal carbon offsets, which is this: Do you and your company ALSO support the need for either a carbon tax OR (at least) a robust carbon cap combined with a regulated carbon credit trading market?

The coming into force in 2005 of the Kyoto Protocol, which set targets and deadlines for reducing carbon emissions, and the subsequent introduction of carbon credits trading markets, such as the Clean Development Mechanism and the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, were significant steps forward.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17 — Leaders of indigenous forest peoples warned today that California's proposed carbon credits trading scheme — intended to help reduce global warming — could in fact threaten the survival of those who live there.

The amount of carbon credits traded on the global markets shrunk by 38 % in 2013, reflecting the lack of pressure companies face to reduce their emissions.

In the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPA's $ 20 billion - per - year sulphur dioxide cap - and - trade program, the forerunner of today's proposed carbon credit trade.

have stepped up to enable the first - ever peer - to - peer carbon credit trading platform, built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Now ConsenSys and CarbonX Personal Carbon Trading Inc. have stepped up to enable the first - ever peer - to - peer carbon credit trading platform, built on the Ethereum blockchain.

TH: And you've actually testified as an expert in front of a Senate committee on climate change, and The Nature Conservancy is also pretty active in emissions trading, or carbon credit trading programs to tackle climate change issues.

China needs to embrace the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) market to try to get more international financial and technological support and to boost carbon credit trading with developed countries.

The SRA has now published advice for the public on investing in schemes such as carbon credits trading, leases of hotel rooms, and diamond trading, where the public is told their money is covered by the law firm's insurance.

The claimant, investment manager David Gorton, alleges that two former McDermott London lawyers advised him to invest in carbon credit trading schemes that they had undisclosed personal financial interests in.

In other words, Google's great initiative should not be seen as a reason to dodge the need for a carbon tax or a robust carbon cap combined with a genuine, credible, carbon credit trading market.

It needs to be spelled out, because the «solutions» that are acceptable to the business world (carbon credit trading and attempts at burying CO2 emissions) will have almost zero effect on the real world — the rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere will be unaffected by such «solutions».