Sentences with phrase «for carbon credits»

As a result, I predict lots of feel good legislation with a thriving market for carbon credits and essentially no impact at all on the problem.

The researchers say one way of setting up these incentives would be to make high - albedo farms eligible for carbon credits which could be sold on the carbon trading markets.

A second part of RA's climate program is to work to develop a mechanism for producers to receive payments for carbon credits within existing carbon markets.

The result, according to the executive, is that few companies are actively implementing emissions reduction technologies in exchange for carbon credits.

With the recession, carbon emissions dropped and the need for carbon credits declined sharply.

Each has different economic and biological assumptions and calculated different values for carbon credits to calculate how much it would cost to avoid different emission levels.

Sell any surplus emissions reductions into a market for carbon credits, thus generating additional revenue.

* RA and its partners have also worked on developing a guide for farmers on how to measure and verify carbon stored on coffee farms to enable producers to receive payments for carbon credits.

Funding will come from a two per cent levy on revenues generated by the clean development mechanism, the scheme allowing industrialised nations to pay for carbon credits produced by emission - reduction projects in the developing world and credit them against their own emissions targets.

Seen that it will create a lot of demand for carbon credits in the future, a key issue is to ensure that emissions reductions are not counted towards both national commitments under the Paris Agreement and the targets set under the future aviation offsetting scheme.

Malik was speaking on the sidelines of a conference launching a new trading scheme for carbon credits in Beijing.

Now, the World Bank has planned for the Tata coal burner to be eligible for carbon credits under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism.

At the session, Carolyn Ching of the VCS Association — a firm that creates accounting standards for carbon credits — described progress in devising the first carbon credit program for mangroves and other wetlands, which could provide funds for their conservation and restoration.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations (known as sawit kelapa in Indonesia), providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation

Commission confirms emissions cap for 2013, but traders want details on plans for carbon credit auctions

The hyped Kyoto agreement doesn't think so and does not count such an energy source as a viable source for carbon credits in their carbon scheme.

PLANKTOS: ALGAE SEEDING FOR CARBON CREDITS Company plans to create plankton blooms to capture CO2.

The opportunity to apply for carbon credits for cookstove projects creates a source of funding that can be leveraged to promote the «win - win» environmental and development benefits of...

She also intoned that households utilizing biogas systems should in future be considered for the carbon credits that many tree growers are enjoying in many parts of the world.

As with any commodity, a rising price for carbon credits doesn't mean that individual companies will prosper.

In fact, the model suggests that at some carbon prices the Indonesian government could actually charge a slightly higher tax rate for carbon credits than sawit kelapa, and still leave Indonesian businesses better off financially than if they were to rely on sawit kelapa.

The production of coolants was so driven by the lure of carbon credits for waste gas that in the first few years more than half of the plants operated only until they had produced the maximum amount of gas eligible for the carbon credit subsidy, then shut down until the next year, United Nations reports said.

Since then ClimateCare has helped structure funding for projects with NGO Relief International in Ghana and secured Results Based Finance for carbon credits from the Swedish Energy Agency for a recent CDM cookstove project — proving that the Climate + Care model also has appeal for public sector funders.

Prices for carbon credits reached an all - time high in July 2008 at 36.43 euros ($ US50.17) per tonne under the European Union's carbon market, the world's biggest.

They point to countries like Russia and Ukraine, where chemicals known to harm the climate were purposefully created and then destroyed to claim cash for carbon credits, they said in a study appearing in Nature Climate Change.

By following a few very simple ceremonies, such as candle - lit Earth Hours, and donating money to the high priests for carbon credits, or indulgences, one can assuage one's guilt for being human and publicly demonstrate one's adherence to the orthodoxy.

Much of what has been agreed is also controversial, particularly so - called carbon trading arrangements which aim to set a marketplace for carbon credits sold by those who live with a small carbon footprintor contribute to carbon reduction by, for example, planting trees, to those who pollute.

Because even though cap - and - trade is intended to incentivize investments that reduce pollution, the price volatility for carbon credits can discourage investment, since an investment that might make sense if carbon credits are trading at $ 50 a ton may not make sense at $ 30 a ton.

Japanese green energy company in Hong Kong arbitration against claims by a Chinese hydroelectric company arising out of the termination of a sale and purchase agreement for carbon credits pursuant to the Kyoto protocol

Nevertheless the study identifies forests that may be best suited (low population density, unsuitable climate and soils) for «Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation» (REDD) initiatives which compensate countries for preserving forest lands in exchange for carbon credits.

«Consumers in Europe want to know that if they're paying for carbon credits, they will have good environmental effects — and these don't,» Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, said in an interview.

My company, TerraPass, is active involved in the development of industry standards for carbon credits.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations, providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

Part of this initiative was to create a methodology for measuring and verifying carbon stored on coffee farms and a mechanism for producers to receive payments for carbon credits.