Sentences with phrase «like carbon credits»

They're band - aids, like carbon credits.

«Naturally some smart politicians and speculators in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in the small island nations, understand that they can profit from the Paris Treaty by gaming the rules on things like carbon credits, or milking the green fund for «climate compensation» or «green energy technology».

I guess I don't see hiring a gardener being like carbon credits.

The company is hoping to pull in $ 178 million in its IPO in the next few weeks, but even if it's successful in that endeavor, it still faces a number of challenges over the next several years as it struggles to reach financial stability on the backs of its products rather than temporary deals like carbon credit swaps.

Not exact matches

The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their emissions, the report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting emissions, like carbon taxation.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Like Obama, he supports a cap - and - trade system — but in his version, the government gives carbon credits free of charge to companies who continue to pollute.

The trading of any commodity — whether wheat, pork bellies or renewable energy credits — is essentially the same, but it helps to have an understanding of the reality behind the abstract: the color - coded blinking numbers on a broker's multiple computer screens that reflect current prices in a spread of different regional carbon markets, like the European Carbon Exchange.

Member states will allocate emissions credits, much like was done in the European Union's carbon trading program, and trade between one another.

These travel wallets come in a number of different fabrics — leather, carbon fiber, aluminium, canvas, and even a waterproof paper called «Tyvek» — and promise features like RFID blocking, easy credit card access, hidden stash pockets, tons of room for your cash and cards, and even water - resistance all in an ultralight, ultra slim package.

And so do private jets.Plant trees rather than just buy carbon credits (or help create a market for carbon credits like you did for Telecom).

At any rate, in my personal view, we should not prescribe exactly what needs to be done but should instead implement flexible schemes like Kyoto or the McCain - Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act that allow trading of emissions credits, credits for carbon sequestration (provided it can truly be shown to work) and so on.

The credits would be sold to companies or individuals trying to compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide (from driving, flying, and the like).

One misconception I would like to nip in the bud, though: the large majority of carbon credits do not come from tree - planting projects.

There, James Kanter has a fresh post on developments related to the growing trade in carbon offsets, credits a person or company can buy from someone planting trees or building windmills or the like, which — in theory at least — could compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.

(As I and others have put it, slowing emissions of carbon dioxide is somewhat like slowing credit - card spending and expecting your debt to shrink.)

In the case of climate, the fee would have to steadily rise to propel a steady shift away from energy choices that come with a lot of carbon dioxide releases, and it'd have to encompass all sources (and perhaps credit «sinks,» like new forests, that sop up the gases).

While there's not much of a prospect for an expanding global market in hard carbon credits like those created under the ailing Kyoto Protocol, this system provides a voluntary means for people or businesses concerned with both climate change and ending energy poverty to have their money do double duty.

The atmosphere is not an infinite dump, so if a trading system for carbon dioxide credits — like the recent financial bubble — doesn't actually lead to progress, we'll know it.

Without a value on the carbon externality we spend our climate credit cards like there is no limit.

Companies could also earn and trade credits for actions like growing trees, which remove carbon dioxide from the air, and could trade permits and credits internationally under the Kyoto Protocol, the agreement to fight global warming that Mr. Bush rejected.

A «pre-pay» carbon policy might work something like this: before a company extracts a ton of carbon from the ground (be it in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, trees, soil, etc.), it would have to «pre-pay» for a credit demonstrating that the organization (or a third - party) had already removed and sequestered an equivalent ton of carbon from the atmosphere.

That plunge in emissions is necessary because unlike most other pollutants, carbon dioxide from fuel burning stays in circulation for centuries, building in the atmosphere like unpaid credit - card debt.

He criticized policies like granting carbon credits to polluters as a «ploy» that would «provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environment,» but would not «allow for the radical change which present circumstances require.»

Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.

In basic terms, the CDM is a program in which developing countries, like China, who are not bound by carbon emission reduction obligations, are encouraged to undertake projects in their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing country.

The letter represents one of the first times that such a broad range of California groups have banded together to bring the global struggle against REDD carbon credits to the Golden State — from national environmental organizations (such as Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity, and Rainforest Action Network), to indigenous rights organizations (like Indigenous Environmental Network, International Indian Treaty Council and Pachamama Alliance), to environmental justice organizations (such as Communities for a Better Environment, Center for Race Poverty and the Environment, and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network)..

Carbon credits & markets seemed like a high finance scam mostly; I researched carbon sequestration & coal gasification for some meetings, but I took the science at face value — warming as just one aspect of oncoming ecological apocalypse.

Scoff if you like, but know this: During 2008 (through Oct. 15), the value of an index of carbon credits - which you can now purchase on the New York Stock Exchange - grew 5.4 %.

Such «personal carbon trading» could operate like a credit card computer system.

Carbon trading has become so essential to companies like Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited, which owns a coolant plant in this remote corner of Gujarat State in northwest India, that carbon credits are listed as a business on the company Web site.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

If people are stupid enough to gamble with their money on illogical schemes like trading carbon credits that is their business.

Potential climate policies can be grouped into four major categories: standards, subsidies or credit - based programs, carbon taxes, and cap - and - trade (like Waxman - Markey).

By this ECO means: «unilateral» NAMAs, mitigation action implemented solely by developing countries; «supported» NAMAs, mitigation action financially supported by donor countries; and «credited» NAMAs, actions that, like the CDM, result in some form of trade - able carbon credits.

This will remove carbon credits from the market & raise the prices in the opposite way that energy efficiency lowers prices etc, and looks like a very good way to get environmental benefit for $ s. I always wondered this.

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.

As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon credits scheme has been abused by countries like Russia and the Ukraine which have used them as a money making scam.

A central hurdle is that carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere like unpaid credit card debt as long as emissions exceed the rate at which the gas is naturally removed from the atmosphere by the oceans and plants.

With our new Project Marketplace, you can make a direct impact by purchasing Gold Standard carbon credits from projects that protect our climate while helping communities access critical services like energy, safe water, food and education.

I am a skeptic, too, particularly when you have some of the loudest Chicken Littles creating a global industry (carbon credits and the like) to line their own pockets.

For similar reasons, he disapproves of buying and selling «carbon credits» — a system of cap and trade, another idea that economists like.

TH: Yahoo! has had an increasingly visible presence in the world of «green», not only launching several new green online resources (like the green cars site), but purchasing renewable energy credits (something TreeHugger mentioned here) and pledging to be carbon neutral in 2007.

Selling carbon credits to themselves like that damn liar Al Gore.

Seems that carbon credits peddled like stocks on fledgling markets, as well as those sold directly to consumers online as a way of «offsetting» some activity or event — a transatlantic flight, say, or a wedding — are doing well.

A large percentage of the scientists who contributed to the studies of temperature and climate variations and greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations behind the «Global Warming» political movement, disagree with the conclusions that have been drawn from their work by non-scientific hacks with an «agenda» and a stake in the game (Like making billions from the sale of carbon credits or gaining vast powers to control the energy policies of countries).

In a better world, the solar tax credit would be increased and paid for by a carbon tax, or a 1 - 2 cent tax on gasoline or something like that.

But they do like to be able to extract any aid they can: military or development or carbon credits, it's all money in the bank.

The promise of carbon credits and free money from schemes like the U.N. - backed Clean Development Mechanism, appear to be among the causes of renewed violence.