Sentences with phrase «more carbon credits»

Since the Local Stakeholder Consultation meeting, ECOTRUST has been included under the Improved Cook Stoves for East Africa (ICSEA) Programme of Activities (PoA) which recently added a new methodology to allow ECOTRUST members to earn more carbon credits for shifting from a dependence on non-renewable biomass fuel to the use of renewable biomass as their primary source of fuel.

However, an overall expansion of the global carbon market — largely through the creation of more carbon credits - also continues to pour money into a commodity that only five years ago had very nearly no value.

Not exact matches

Although the wine industry and most other agricultural industries are considered low producers of carbon emissions, GHG issues, such as gaining market access to retailers interested in carbon foot printing, providing data for marketing purposes and / or carbon credit accounting, are becoming more significant to brands and image.

The company started buying carbon offset credits more than 10 years ago, before most people had even heard of global warming.

He went on to urge Blair to support the U.S. position in favor of more credit for carbon sequestered by forests and sinks, assuring him that it would allow the United States to curtail even more emissions.

That's because those who buy carbon credits often use them to produce more carbon dioxide (CO2).

By investing in efficient plant it could generate lots of valuable carbon credits to sell to wealthier, more wasteful nations.

Selling this artificially inflated credit could thus ultimately enable more carbon to be emitted than if the offset had not been created at all.

Securing $ 9 million worth of carbon credits in an avoided deforestation program near Aceh, Indonesia, Merrill Lynch's investment is a gamble that these credits will be worth significantly more in the not too distant future.

It will basically allocate a certain amount of carbon emissions to corporations, and if they come in under their targets, they will be able to sell these credits to corporations that need more carbon.

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.

With their reputations at stake, the world's biggest automakers are rolling out their best efforts in electrified vehicles over the next several years and are more interested in earning carbon credits than profits.

The Clean Energy Regulator's types of units webpage gives more details about regulated carbon credits.

If the «green - factor» is a priority, then it can be argued that web hosting companies that directly use renewable energy sources should be considered more green than those who purchase carbon credits.

Back in 2003, I felt that the technology to establish credits for «carbon removal» from the atmosphere was not sufficiently developed to warrant inclusion of such a system in an offset system proposed for Canada — even though removal of carbon from the atmosphere and long term sequestration seemed to have more merit than simple emission reduction.

More importantly, the Climate Security Act of 2007 (Lieberman / Warner bill) is currently in mark - up and exempts co-ops from the cap - and - trade decreasing carbon allocations by setting their emissions at 2006 levels until 2035 and then allowing them to sell or trade their emission credits.

It is true that carbon credits can encourage people to activity to reduce more emission.

Carbon credits should be paid for «long term» sequestration of carbon, not just for preventing the further release of more «fossil carbon» to the atmosphere, or for «temporarily» storing carbon with «short term» sequestratration in living plants.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

«This manmade global warming hoax is about two things: empowering government to run more of the private sector, and turning carbon dioxide into gold as in «carbon credits.»»

One hazard is that the price of carbon could suddenly plummet — as it did in the European system in 2006 because of a glut of credits on the markets — prompting a swift return to burning more fossil fuels.

Instead, a «pre-pay» carbon policy would let the market decide whether it is more economically efficient to transition to non-fossil sources of energy or to pay for removal credits needed to continue using fossil fuels.

The plants don't seem to mind a little extra CO2, but meanwhile, we are focused on «carbon credits» and reducing CO2 while mercury pours into our fish supplies and we release enough methane to make the atmosphere flammable (see, this is how hyperbole starts — but we release a lot of methane and it's more harmful than CO2).

The conservation practices covered more than 2,000 acres of farmland and were implemented by two farmers in California and five farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi who took a leadership role in piloting the practices and participating in the generation and sale of carbon credits.

It would set overall limits on carbon dioxide pollution, but would allow companies to pollute more by paying for it and buying pollution credits from cleaner companies.

The global warming pushers are well - funded because they have something to gain — billions of illicit dollars in grant money from the taxpayers, sale of «carbon credits,» book, TV and film deals and more.

Depending on your requirements offsetting can be anything from a quick and simple online transaction to purchase carbon credits from our selected ClimateCare projects, to a more in depth activity involving support for projects of your choice around the world, or even the creation of a brand new project, for example in your supply chain.

While our views are still evolving, we think it's clear that removing bioenergy subsidies and mandates and preventing EPA from letting electricity generators claim credit for biomass as carbon - neutral would do more to internalize the climate costs of bioenergy than even a hefty carbon tax.

Incentives from selling carbon credits are limited by low returns to farmers, while improved food security, economic benefits and adaptation to climate change are more fundamental incentives that should accompany mitigation.

I take it with a grain of salt — the farmer sources are more practical and carbon credits are merely icing on the cake.

The «global - scale dispersal» of more than 50 % of sequestered carbon would make monitoring very difficult; as well ascribing ownership that would be critical for potentially allocating carbon credits;

At lower carbon prices, plant developers could well conclude that it is more economical to build uncontrolled SCPC plants and then purchase credits to offset their emissions.

According to Lewis it could make up nearly one third of the CDM market, making it all the more important to ensure that the credits Australia will purchase are real, long - term and contribute quickly to a low carbon economy in developing countries.

If Climate change (or global warming) folks want to make their cause more saleable then they need to stop using has been Rock or movie stars, tired burned out politicos, and most of all persons that have invested great amounts of money in «green projects», «carbon credits» and other money making scams... errr sorry schemes.

It will launch a lot adapatation planning and new spending, and it will make people more aware that sea level rise is real and serious, but to assume that it will also lead to a major shift in carbon usage and stop the tar sands from being exploited and Keystone built, extend the wind tax credit, among many other things, is an assumption that can't be made.

As the CPRS will see Australia take a more significant role on the carbon market, it is important that the number and type of CDM credits purchased by Australia are strictly regulated.

For more information on the REDD Offsets Working Group, which is scheduled to release a set of recommendations for a California REDD carbon credit program in July, see http://stateredd.org/

DelAgua will generate verified carbon credits following an ACR - approved methodology to quantify the emissions reductions from the decreased fuelwood use from more efficient cookstoves and water filters.

If you look into the matter a little more, you can see that carbon traders will not be supporting the massive replacement of fossil fuel sources by renewables — because who would buy the carbon credits in that case?

Also, Virginia should have received more credit for lowering its carbon emissions by building nuclear plants back in the 1970s when no one was thinking about carbon emissions.

It has been shown that a warming planet will put more CO2 into the atmosphere, with a lag of several hundred years, so why are we still building windmills and trading 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 (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.

Even if the forests eventually regrow, notes Prof. Sterman, each year the new carbon debt from increased harvest and combustion outweighs the regrowth, just as borrowing more on a credit card each month than one is able to pay back will steadily increase what he or she owes.

According to an analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations, «Extension of the tax credits will do far more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions over the next five years than lifting the export ban will do to increase them.»

Farmers» earnings from carbon credits are front - loaded and paid over a period of 7 to 10 years for carbon sequestration which is projected to take place over the course of 25 or more years.

Even more atrocious human - rights abuses linked to similar carbon - credit programs have also been documented in Honduras.

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.

On Tuesday the European Parliament's 748 MEPs will vote on whether to withhold more than 900m carbon credits from the next phase of its emissions trading scheme (ETS).

«By capitalizing on the economic benefits offered through carbon credits, more of Louisiana's wetlands can be restored and preserved.

The World Bank said, that with its guaranteed price for carbon credits, its clients would be more interested in starting emission cutting projects.