Sentences with phrase «of voluntary carbon»

«Its insightful report on the future of voluntary carbon offsets had this to say: «Australia has shifted rapidly on international and domestic climate policy since the election of the Rudd Labor Government in November 2007.

In order to ensure ClimateCare can always meet and exceed its clients» carbon offset requirements, the Voluntary Portfolio Manager must always have access to new projects and programmes to match up to client requirements, and manage the flow of funds to those projects via the purchase of voluntary carbon credits.

In addition we reduce our emissions to net zero for the Group through the purchase of voluntary carbon offsets.

The role will require development of a broad understanding of the voluntary carbon market, active and focused engagement with the supplier network and application of the knowledge gained to ensure ClimateCare can always provide the best portfolios to our clients and prospects in the short and longer term.

Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX), the world's first web - based electronic platform for spot trading of voluntary carbon credits, and the American Carbon Registry (ACR), the first U.S. carbon offset standard organization and project registry, will interface to trade ACR's entire range of diverse credits.

Also in California, ARB announced its plans to tap the experience and innovation of the voluntary carbon market to help build and implement its offset program.

Yesterday, we released our annual survey of the voluntary carbon markets, which takes stock of what individuals, corporations, and governments have been doing to offset their greenhouse - gas emissions until the Paris Agreement takes effect — which could happen as early as next year.

Québec City, September 19, 2017 — Solifor Perthuis, a partnership between Solifor (an initiative of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ) and Scierie Dion & Fils, have completed the sale of 140,000 tonnes of voluntary carbon credits to Just Energy and TD Bank Group.

The study uses $ 4.4 per tonne as its lowest estimated price — based on the average historical price of a voluntary carbon offset developed under the American Carbon Registry (ACR).

The Regional Analysis examines the geography of voluntary carbon markets — where offsets are produced, how prices, project types, and standards vary by location, as well as developments shaping the carbon market in each region.

Two companion mini-reports take a closer look at two aspects of the voluntary carbon market.

One approach is passing the carbon cost on to passengers in the form of voluntary carbon offset purchases.

The urgency of the challenge has prompted a number of new initiatives from business - oriented environmental groups that aim to reassess — and reimagine — the role of voluntary carbon offsetting in helping to generate the finance needed to protect the climate.

No one claims that carbon markets alone will fix the climate mess, but they do have a role to play, and its a role we hope to understand a bit more after this week, we thanks to two new surveys — one focused explicitly on the motives and strategies of voluntary carbon buyers, and the other focused on the specific ways that voluntary carbon markets are being utilized in different parts of the world.

In 2014, ICROA and Imperial College conducted a research study into the socio - economic impacts of the voluntary carbon market.

Therefore, it offers a cost effective way of evaluating the co-benefits of voluntary carbon projects.

Our work has played an important role in the development of the voluntary carbon market and our project principles have widely influenced the debate about what counts as a valid carbon offset.

The Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) is a global standard for the validation and verification of voluntary carbon emission reductions.

Atop a pleather stool cushion, a round painting of leucaena leucocephala, the first tree species to be deployed en mass to combat climate change, is stickered with certified receipts of the voluntary carbon offsets purchased by Assiff to cover his footprint in creating the show.

Not exact matches

Generate resources, financial or otherwise, for indigenous coffee farmers as a result of selling verified emissions reductions on the voluntary carbon market, and by selling Climate - friendly branded coffee.

One step would be stress testing, engaging pension funds and companies to examine if they hold carbon - intensive assets on their books, said Martin Skancke, who spoke on the first panel and is chairman of the Advisory Council of Principles for Responsible Investing, a U.N. - supported initiative that has helped formulate a widely followed voluntary protocol of responsible investment criteria.

NGOs, World Bank look to «blue» portfolios Although Siikamäki's study ties successful conservation to the price of offsets in mandatory and voluntary carbon markets, the researchers also took into account other benefits unrelated to carbon, like maintaining species diversity.

Prices on the voluntary carbon market are likely too low for this method to attract the interest of most U.S. farmers in the near term, Robertson said.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Regardless of who may be right, projections for both the voluntary and regulated carbon markets are only headed in one direction: upwards.

It shows a total of 65 million tonnes of carbon were traded on the voluntary market in 2007, worth a total of $ 331 million.

And voluntary carbon markets seem likely as a source of financial support for coastal ecosystem conservation and restoration activities.

Summarizes GAO's prior work examining (1) the challenges in ensuring the quality of carbon offsets in the voluntary market, (2) the effects of and lessons learned from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offset program, and (3) matters that the Congress may wish to consider when developing regulatory programs.

I know that people love to talk about all the opportunities that exist in the field of reducing carbon, but I can't imagine any scenario in which voluntary market - based solutions could produce a useful result in a sufficiently short time frame.

He reports on a new «voluntary carbon standard» intended by its developers to increase confidence that a ton of avoided climate - warming emissions is real.

It is by this lack of specific demands on govt that CoP21 in Paris is on track to discuss merely short - term voluntary «pledges», with the US refusing to discuss the requisite framework for the equitable and efficient allocation of tradable national emission rights under a declining global carbon budget.

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 business leaders, clearly addressing the US, which is the now the only and largest emitter of greenhouse gases not to have signed Kyoto or pledged to support a new protocol since the newly elected Australian PM stated he will sign, urge policymakers here to move away from a vague voluntary approach on carbon standards to a mandatory standard.

As things stand now, our carbon markets in California and Chicago are voluntary, resulting in low prices per ton compared to Europe ($ 5 instead of $ 25) and little activity.

«Some voluntary programs are even writing the rules for regulated carbon markets as governments outsource a growing list of market functions to independent bodies — leaning on their accumulated experience with carbon offset projects.»

Several other nations are not be far behind, including Costa Rica, the Republic of Korea and most recently South Africa — which could consider allowing offsets of voluntary origin for use under its proposed carbon tax.

Sofidel Group (known in Italy mainly for its Regina brand) is re-launching its commitment to the environment by broadening its agreement with WWF's Climate Savers, based on the voluntary definition of substantial reduction plans for carbon dioxide emissions through the implementation of innovative strategies and technologies.

Beyond implementing national pilots to engage the private sector in carbon offsetting, some of these governments also view their «voluntary» programs as the first step toward developing national climate action plans and regulated carbon marketplaces.

With the future of an international climate agreement still in flux, governments worldwide are turning to markets for voluntary carbon offsetting to engage private sector climate actors — and to inform or provide the tools that could shape tomorrow's regulated carbon markets.

Demand for carbon offsets on the voluntary market grew 14 % last year to 87 million offsets, according to Ecosystem Marketplace's Ahead of the Curve: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2015 report, released last week.

All three are among more than 20 national and sub-national governmental agencies around the world that have incorporated voluntary climate - change solutions into their formal strategies — creating in the process a means of developing the tools and procedures that will be needed in a low - carbon economy.

In both the voluntary carbon market and California's regulated carbon market, ACR oversees the registration and verification of carbon offset projects following approved carbon accounting methodologies or protocols and issues offsets on a transparent registry system.

In the voluntary market, ACR oversees the registration and independent verification of projects that meet ACR Standards and follow ACR approved carbon accounting methodologies, which ensure accuracy, precision and rigor in the measurement, monitoring and

Founded in 1996 as the first private voluntary registry in the world, ACR has 15 years of experience in the development of rigorous, science - based carbon offset standards and methodologies as well as in carbon offset issuance, serialization and transparent online transaction and retirement reporting.

With the promise of revenue from carbon offsets, a methane gas collection and control system at the Bi-County Municipal Landfill was built as a completely voluntary action.

To reduce methane, a greenhouse gas over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, farmers in California and the Mid-South implemented a variety of groundbreaking voluntary conservation practices that included alternate wetting and drying and early drainage of their fields as well as crop residue management.

Developments in international policy, new standards and the promise of future demand from the aviation industry are pushing the voluntary carbon market forward, the top firms in Environmental Finance's 2017 rankings say

That year, half a billion dollars» worth of carbon credit transactions took place in the voluntary carbon market, according to Ecosystem Marketplace's 2013 State of Voluntary Carbon Markets Report.

The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) is a not - for - profit alliance of leading carbon reduction and offset providers that provides leadership and a unified voice advocating for rigorous industry standards for the voluntary carbon market.

The approval of the Mid-South rice modules therefore marks an important milestone in broadening the opportunities for agriculture producers to participate in carbon markets, incentivizing adoption of voluntary emissions reduction practices.