Sentences with phrase «certified emissions reduction credits»

The scientists highlighted Brazil's proposal to include prevention of deforestation in the market for CERs (Certified Emissions Reduction credits).

Around the same time Congress was purchasing these offsets, the World Wildlife Fund released a report denouncing 20 percent of the UN's certified emissions reduction credits, as facilitated through the controversial clean development mechanism, as bogus.

Through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a provision in the Kyoto Protocol that encourages developed nations to share clean technologies with the developing world, countries can earn certified emissions reduction credits (CERs) by investing in clean energy projects.

Certified Emissions Reduction credits (CERs) produced by the UN's Clean Development Mechanism; European Union Allowances (EUAs) produced by the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), and Emissions Reduction Units (ERUs) produced by the UN's Joint Implementation mechanism.

Analysts warn prices are likely to remain in doldrums for 12 months as certified emission reduction credits reach $ 3.32 a tonne

Land use is also becoming more prominent in discussions under the Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon offset tool that supports emissions - reduction projects in developing countries so that developed countries earn certified emission reduction credits — while continuing to pollute.

Not exact matches

They charge that since 2005 a small number of firms have deliberately produced excess greenhouse gas pollution for the sole purpose of destroying it, thus earning them valuable carbon offset credits called Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs).

(A credit for a ton of CO2, called a certified emissions reduction, has been selling for about $ 15 in Europe.)

The CDM allows emission - reduction (or emission removal) projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2.

The headline figure hides large national variations and several countries will not meet their national target without emissions trading, or credits purchased from certified emission reduction projects in developing countries under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

The funding is typically results - based, through the purchase of certified emission reductions or «carbon credits».

SGS Carbon Neutral: Indicates a significant reduction has been achieved and that remaining emissions have been offset through programs such as renewable energy credit purchase systems run by certified third - party organizations.

The CDM is one of the three Flexible Mechanisms defined in the KyotoProtocol and allows emission - reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2.

Under Article 12, Annex B nations may implement emission reduction projects in developing nations to generate certified emission reduction (CER) credits for each ton of carbon reduced or avoided.

Under the CDM, when a project (such as a wind farm) in a developing nation results in an overall fall in emissions it will receive «carbon credits», called Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) based on the amount of emissions that have been reduced.