Sentences with phrase «environmental marketing»

The exchange will begin with compliance markets, but then seeks to cover all European environmental markets — including voluntary carbon, renewable energy, water and biomass.
There are a couple of challenges to the adoption of soil carbon in environmental markets.
Effective environmental markets will be critical to developing carbon pricing mechanisms and consequently the development of low carbon economies.
Later he would work on creating a model for trading environmental markets and helped to develop the cap and trade methodology used to trade carbon around the world.
These programs may also provide a foundation for the recognition and participation of Indigenous peoples in carbon and environmental markets which benefit the Australian community.
The past 3 - 4 years has been spent tailoring the platform for the European environmental markets.
They were killed by the high cost of the technology and a lack of federal policy — a cap - and - trade program, a carbon tax or some other mechanism effectively setting a price on CO2 pollution — to make them economically feasible, notes Caroline Angoorly, head of environmental markets at JPMorgan Chase, who formerly led development of these projects while at NPG.
But a major pick - up in projects which safeguard carbon - sucking forests will not take place unless they are «investable,» said Kyung - Ah Park, head of environmental markets at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank.
WASHINGTON — The American Beverage Association today submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (or «Green Guides»), which are used to communicate messages to consumers concerning recyclability and environmental attributes about products and packages.
Martijn Wilder, Baker & McKenzie partner in charge of global environmental markets and climate change, said the firm hadn't done much climate litigation in the past but the pace of inquiries from companies seeking reassurance about any potential liability had quickened.
The report, which aggregates historic data from 215 forest carbon projects around the globe, was published last Thursday by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace, a world - leading provider of news, data and analytics on environmental markets and investments in conservation.
UEMF; Recognizing and Addressing The Universality of Environmental Market Failure.
EMG also manages the Center for Environmental Markets, which partners with corporations, non-government organizations, and academic institutions to examine and promote market - based solutions to environmental challenges.
While my colleague Tom Friedman has taken to calling green the new red, white and blue, the people at this conference clearly see environmental marketing as a source of, well, good old - fashioned green, in the form of profits (that they say don't harm the planet).
She noted that «Canada sees India as a significant environmental market, especially in the areas of groundwater treatment and waste minimization.»
The statutes defer to the Green Guides whenever certain environmental marketing claims are made, opening up violators of the Green Guides to criminal penalties and civil suits rather than just administrative action by FTC.
California state law has incorporated the Green Guides into its own environmental marketing laws, as has Indiana.
Using current conservation program and environmental market value, these beneficial environmental outcomes in the study area are valued at a mere $ 3 million, which is much lower than the $ 30 million opportunity cost to farmers for switching their land to perennial production.
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With assistance from Dan's environmental markets expertise and operational leadership, Carbonzero has grown to be a Canadian leader in the design and implementation of corporate carbon reduction strategies and solutions.
In an effort to describe, understand, and quantify the growth of greenwashing, TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc. conducted a survey of 6 category - leading big box stores.
Impax Environmental Markets Investment Trust was the first UK listed equity fund to demonstrate a net positive carbon impact.
The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for carbon dioxide is the world's largest greenhouse gas trading program in scope and the most important environmental market in the world.
Supply Change combines these assets with Forest Trends» long - standing technical expertise in tracking and analyzing environmental markets to make for a robust analysis of these corporate commitments.
«We're looking for game - changing partnerships that, by a relatively small infusion of policy advisors and engagement, enable us to help craft a demonstration of how to write policy to support REDD and other environmental markets,» Sissel says.
«We recently launched the newest line of bins for use in home kitchens, and we are excited to get feedback from the Albany families that are part of Global Green's pilot,» said John Sebranek, Environmental Marketing Manager at ORBIS.
ESM 285 - Environmental Markets [4 units] Libecap Environmental and resource problems are due to incomplete property rights.
Following a refocus towards environmental markets and sustainable business models in 2002 he was a project manager advising executives in the UK health service on turnkey strategies before co-founding EnviroMarket.
Partnering with TCT made sense, said Billy Gascoigne, Economist / Environmental Markets Specialist at Ducks Unlimited, because the organization was waddling into unfamiliar territory.
«Environmental markets bring new money into conservation in this country in a way we've never seen before.»
«Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design
Jonathan Cocker heads the Firm's Environment & Environmental Markets Practice Group in Toronto, where he also serves as chair of the Pro Bono Committee.
His father, former diplomat and patron of the neo-Malthusian Optimum Population Trust, Sir Crispin Tickell, who made the first arguments influential for the greening of the UK Government in the 1970s with his book, Climatic Change and World Affairs, was appointed chair of a committee to check the integrity of carbon - offsetting firm, Climate Care, part of JPMorgan's Environmental Markets group.
Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Environmental Markets (GEM) and was founded in 2009 to operate spot exchanges in multiple global environmental commodity markets including Carbon, RECs and Water.
Genevieve Bennett is a Senior Associate at Ecosystem Marketplace, where she contributes tracking and analysis on environmental markets to both the water and biodiversity programs.
The American Beverage Association today submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (or Green Guides), which are used to communicate messages to consumers concerning recyclability and environmental attributes about products and packages.
Despite this turbulent history, newly - launched European Environmental Markets» CEO Adrian Rimmer believes the time to enter the market is now, especially after EU officials signed off on a plan last year to shore up the EU ETS by withholding 900 million permits from 2014 - 2016, a temporary solution known as backloading.
A central piece of Forest Trends» work is to enable indigenous people to participate in environmental markets and benefit from preserving the forests in which they live — rather than sell off the trees to interests that would have them clear - cut the forests.
For nearly two decades, our multi-day Katoomba Events have also provided a high - level forum for exchanging ideas, bringing together important players — from businesses, to policymakers, to community leaders, and civil society organizations — and catalyzing new initiatives around environmental markets.
With a legally binding agreement on emissions reduction set to be finalised at the 2015 COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, how crucial will effective environmental markets be?
This report is a collaboration between WRI and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets.
I call this global incentive effect, the universality of environmental market failure.
The Council membership also includes equipment manufacturers, independent electric power producers, investor - owned utilities, public power, commercial end - users and project developers and service providers for energy and environmental markets.
Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.
The Environmental Markets Group, which resides within the Executive Office, is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Environmental Policy Framework as well as furthering, coordinating and communicating the firm's global environmental initiatives.
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