Sentences with phrase «carbon offset»

Under the methodology, 3.4 million acres are eligible to generate carbon offset credits throughout the Mid-South and California.

Founded in 1996 as the GHG Registry by Environmental Resources Trust, ACR has 15 years of experience in the development of rigorous, science - based carbon offset standards and methodologies as well as in carbon offset issuance, serialization and transparent online transaction and retirement reporting.

With the promise of upfront revenues from NativeEnergy's Help Build ™ carbon offset sales, the new separating equipment was installed and the system began operating in early summer 2010.

Our original model of developing and marketing carbon offset projects now includes strategies to identify and fund opportunities in our clients» supply chains.

The nonprofit American Carbon Registry (ACR), an enterprise of Winrock International, is a leading carbon offset program recognized for its high standards for environmental integrity.

In addition to generating verified carbon offset credits, these practices also resulted in reduced energy consumption and the reduced use of millions of gallons of water, a critical resource in both regions.

Biomass offset projects must pass the same tests as other carbon offset schemes to ensure that carbon savings are genuine, quantifiable, permanent and additional.

To date, the primary risk - mitigation mechanism for forest carbon projects has been the buffer pool, a model pioneered by Winrock International and now employed by all major carbon offset programs including ACR.

Since small businesses often can not finance the installation or conversion to bioenergy themselves, carbon offset projects that provide upfront funding are an ideal way to ensure such projects happen.

Founded in 1996 as the first private voluntary registry in the world, ACR has 15 years of experience in the development of rigorous, science - based carbon offset standards and methodologies as well as in carbon offset issuance, serialization and transparent online transaction and retirement reporting.

«The forest carbon offset market's growth speaks to the critical role that forest - based climate solutions are beginning to play in both corporate and government - led risk mitigation,» says Ecosystem Marketplace Director Molly Peters - Stanley.

Unlike many other carbon offset schemes, when you buy HelpBuild offsets, you're not just buying carbon reductions from a project that has already been built.

The results were submitted to the ACR, a nonprofit that oversees the registration and verification of carbon offset projects.

«We partnered with American Carbon Registry because of their deep domain expertise in forestry and are pleased to offer an ACR - approved risk mitigation product that can provide new peace of mind for landowners considering and undertaking carbon offset projects.»

In both the voluntary carbon market and California's regulated carbon market, ACR oversees the registration and verification of carbon offset projects following approved carbon accounting methodologies or protocols and issues offsets on a transparent registry system.

Each carbon offset project is then validated and verified by an accredited third party.

Biomass (or bioenergy) carbon offset projects vary depending on whether they are methane avoidance projects, reducing deforestation, or avoiding fossil fuel use; some projects may deliver more than one of these.

As the project operates over time, its VER production will be third party verified as specified in the project description on our web site and according to the rules of the applicable carbon offset standard.

All of our Projects undergo review by independent third parties who are accredited to make the determination that the project meets all the requirements of one of the leading carbon offset standards such as the Gold Standard, the Verified Carbon Standard or the Climate Action Reserve, and receive «validation» that they do.

All carbon offset purchases and retirements are third - party verified by the non-profit Winrock International.

COTAP's community - owned carbon offset projects serve and connect key UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 1 — ending poverty, and Goal 13 — taking action on climate change; as well as enhancing food security, fighting deforestation, boosting sustainable growth and employment, and protecting ecosystems and biodiversity.

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).

COTAP's carbon offset projects, which counteract emissions through tree planting, agroforestry and forest protection, are all located in areas where income levels are less than $ 2 per day, and are certified under Plan Vivo, the world's longest - standing voluntary standard for forest carbon.

We offer a range of carbon offset projects to international standards, including the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER) and Certified Emission Reductions (CER).

«Some voluntary programs are even writing the rules for regulated carbon markets as governments outsource a growing list of market functions to independent bodies — leaning on their accumulated experience with carbon offset projects.»

Perhaps, Angela, instead of buying a carbon offset you could pay a woman in Mali to be sterilized.

Learn more about Bonneville Environmental Foundation's carbon offset projects.

As NWEI's Executive Director David Macek shares, «Creating the carbon offset option was a very natural decision for NWEI.

Offering eBooks was our first step, and the carbon offset option is a great next step in neutralizing our footprint.»

A carbon offset would be like having the opportunity to cheat and then deciding not to do it.

by Deborah McNamara on February 1, 2018 0 NWEI and carbon offset preservation renewable energy projects sustainable practices why carbon offsets are important

Given the importance of this issue (and the claims of these types of initiatives), I think that the Times should do a great, detailed, investigative report regarding the workings of two or three of the larger carbon offset services.

As to all the competing carbon offset offerings — purchasers are price - sensitive, and whichever offsetter appears to be the cheapest per ton of CO2 is going to pull in the most $.

This is a disincentive for alternative energy projects to honestly disclose their actual costs per ton of carbon offset, since they will price themselves out of the market.

The carbon offset is self - defeating if the server holding the Prince's hologram was flown to Saudi Arabia, isn't it?

Longtime readers of my work know I've been skeptical of the merits of many carbon offset projects (start with my 2007 article, «Carbon - Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?»)

«The carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get - out - of - jail - free card,» Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, one of the world's largest green travel companies to embrace environmental sustainability, said in an interview.

The business plan had been to sell «carbon offset» credits earned by triggering blooms of phytoplankton that, in theory, would absorb a predictable amount of the climate - warming gas carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and then sink to the seabed.

Toss an e-card over to someone you love today (and then offset the energy used by data centers to send the card with a carbon offset provider...)

Consider this: Reforestation, or sequestration, is the only carbon offset that actually reduces CO2 in the atmosphere today.

The engraved and burnt petals of the «carbon offset» wall works resemble the lyrical movements of musical notation and the eerie aftermath of a war scene.

Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) became the latest airline to launch a carbon offset programme when it joined the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) scheme recently as its first Asia - Pacific partner.

Add a carbon offset to the price of your plane ticket and head to one of these dream tropical islands..

If the caller claims they can generate Australian carbon credit units through a carbon offset project, check if the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project register.

In India, Rogers discovered that carbon offset ventures were doing more harm than good because carbon offset money discourages certain countries from investing in wind or solar power and continues their reliance on fossil fuels.

The star's «Puna is made of a mix of recycled fabrics (and she wears it so often, she's probably gotten a carbon offset).

Recent expansions in green renewable power and carbon offset credits enabled us to convert and transfer our previous dependency on non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear to a more sustainable and less harmful energy source.

Anger over decision to bar 10 Chinese wind energy projects from entering UN-approved carbon offset scheme

A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the marketplace.

CERs are the most heavily traded carbon offset credit in the world, used mostly by European companies to keep their greenhouse gas emissions levels beneath a government - mandated cap.