Sentences with phrase «big carbon credit»

Keep in mind just as there is «big oil» there is an emerging «big wind» and «big carbon credit».

PHNOM PENH — The killing of three conservationists patrolling Cambodia's biggest carbon credit project exposes the nearly insurmountable conflicts of interest plaguing schemes in which huge corporations such as Disney and Virgin Atlantic have invested millions of dollars, observers say.

Not exact matches

With their reputations at stake, the world's biggest automakers are rolling out their best efforts in electrified vehicles over the next several years and are more interested in earning carbon credits than profits.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

AGW means «carbon credits», IE a tax, and a big one.

Here is a big stack of issues that Parties should tackle: stringent CDM reform; a framework for new mechanisms that results in a net decrease of emissions and is based on principles ensuring sustainable development and the protection of human rights; removal of loopholes that weaken targets such as surplus AAUs and non-additional carbon credits.

Since we are going to have a church of climatology, what about as our motto, a big picture of Algore, with the words, «He bought carbon credits for your sins»?

I don't believe it's been mentioned, but some of the biggest money in the climate issue right now is in carbon credit trading.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

He and his son Adam are investors in a startup called Verdeo that aims to develop carbon credits in the U.S. Big banks see opportunities too.

A bigger question is just how much the European Union's decision to disallow, as of next year, the waste gas credits in its immense carbon trading system will decrease their value.

(Carbon Offset Credits) Funny, you could replace «carbon offset credits» with «the denial playbook borrowed from big tobacco» and you'd get a true staCredits) Funny, you could replace «carbon offset credits» with «the denial playbook borrowed from big tobacco» and you'd get a true stacredits» with «the denial playbook borrowed from big tobacco» and you'd get a true statement.

As Congress returns to work following the election, big polluters are working to extend and expand a tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration — or CCS — facilities like Kemper as part of a year - end tax deal.

If Chevron, or any named Big Oil codefendant can show that the externalities of CO2 emissions are of net benefit, could they countersue entities that have suppressed CO2 emission, or benefited from CO2 emissions, & thereby place liens & seize the assets of companies selling carbon credits, or of any tangible real property associated with past ill - gotten carbon taxation & regulation?

Since you're a researcher, the big banks are behind the exchange and don't be surprised if complex futures with the carbon credit market happens and ends bad.

Folks see Goldman Sachs and the other leeches lining up to cash in on «carbon credits» which is the biggest load of horseshit tried to stuff down the people's throats in decades, and they are sick of it.

In December 2008, an International Rivers press release alleged that German utility RWE, one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU law.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

I wonder if big Al is still in the carbon credit trading biz.

(It was a more streamlined bill that limited pollution from big «upstream» energy companies — think coal mining and oil production — and didn't allow a freewheeling market in carbon - pollution credits.)