Sentences with phrase «offset markets»

Our understanding of things are moving very quickly and this is reflected in the volatility of the carbon offset markets.

«And we worked them through this series of steps, which is measuring the carbon in their forests and putting that into a technical report to be able to go to the marketplace and say, «here's our asset, here's the amount of carbon we have captured and stored in our forests,» and that's what people in the offset markets are looking for.

The use of credits from the UN-backed international offset markets also doubled in 2012 as companies looked to exploit a closing loophole previously described as «perverse» by Sandbag.

These projects have served as pilots, providing a bridge to carbon offset markets and the potential role of agricultural projects within these markets.

Carbon offset markets have fallen out of fashion among policymakers, as the EU has ruled out the use of credits to meet a greenhouse gas reduction target of 40 % by 2030 as it attempts to shore up its domestic carbon market and reduce oversupply.

With such data and the carbon credits measured, the community was able to enter into the international carbon offset markets.

An important pending question regarding EPA's use of the Clean Air Act is whether EPA may legally create CO2 cap - and - trade or offset markets under existing Clean Air Act authority.

«The absence of these North American transactions from our report is a win, not a loss, for the voluntary offset markets,» said Ecosystem Marketplace Director Molly Peters - Stanley.

Offset Market Exchange, which she founded in 2011, helps government contractors manage their obligations to meet local procurement requirements — an uncelebrated but vital line of work.

Offset Market Exchange now has more than 4,000 active users, including several international aerospace and defense giants.

Offset Market Exchange (OMX) is headquartered on the third floor of an old, low - rise office building just south of Toronto's über - hip Queen St. West.

This, in turn, will help boost China's renewable energy capacity and lift carbon prices in the international offset market, which is being oversupplied by carbon credits from the U.N. - run Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Carbon offsets arising from cutting nitrous oxide do not undermine the offset market, Stockholm Environment Institute finds

Carbon Retirement urges small and medium emitters to become «carbon - neutral» and boost voluntary offset market

In our opinion, modifying the traditional 60/40 stock / bond allocation by including a 5 % -15 % exposure to managed futures offers the potential to offset the market impact of the coming regime change.

More background on this nascent offsets market, along with links to various independent critiques, can be found in another story I wrote earlier this year.

One of the largest problems currently plaguing the voluntary offset market in the U.S. are Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

«The forest carbon offset market's growth speaks to the critical role that forest - based climate solutions are beginning to play in both corporate and government - led risk mitigation,» says Ecosystem Marketplace Director Molly Peters - Stanley.

ICROA's support of robust standards for the voluntary offset market is critical: Member firms currently provide carbon offset and management services to thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals.

There are two ways the U.S. government could bring consistency and credibility to the voluntary carbon offset market: endorse an existing program and provide guidance, oversight and / or enforcement.

As the offset market continues to grow and change, well designed offset programs offering socially progressive offsets — such as Help Build ™ carbon offsets — represent best practice, enabling pioneer organizations to support the transition to a low - carbon world.

To demonstrate our commitment to helping ensure the success of the California offset market, we opened a Sacramento office, hired Belinda Morris as our California director, appointed four state luminaries to our ACR Advisory Council, and launched a new registry platform in partnership with APX.

And the offset market in the EU has generated several high - profile cases of fraud.

To demonstrate our commitment to helping ensure the success of the California offset market, we opened a Sacramento office, hired Belinda Morris as our California director, appointed four state luminaries to our

Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies By Patrick McCully The world's biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the UN, administered by the World Bank, and is intended to reduce -LSB-...]

The ACR Commitment to Quality award went to BP America, the last decade's largest energy investor in the U.S., for the company's role in the California offset market.

During ACR's March webinar on the California offset market, ARB urged project developers not to wait for OPR and verifier approval to start implementing projects using the already published compliance offset protocols (Forestry, Urban Forestry, Ozone Depleting Substances and Livestock).

What new developments have occurred in the offset market?

Papua seeks funds for fighting global warming through forest conservation (8/10/2007) In an article published today in The Wall Street Journal, Tom Wright profiles the nascent «avoided deforestation» carbon offset market in Indonesia's Papua province.

Hydrodec's SUPERFINETM re-refined oil will be the first oil product to generate a carbon credit which can be traded in the voluntary carbon offset market in the US.

June 4, 2013 Native Energy to Offset Emissions from Sustainable Brands ’13 Conference Native Energy, a leader in the carbon offset market for more than a decade, is the carbon sponsor for this week's Sustainable Brands Conference in San Diego.

July 15, 2014 — BURLINGTON, VT — NativeEnergy, Inc., a leader in the carbon offset market for more than a decade, announced today that Jeff Bernicke has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer.

House of Commons: 2007, The Voluntary Carbon Offset Market.

Traders and regulators say Europe's carbon market, called the Emissions Trading System, and the UN's offset market, called the Clean Development Mechanism, are making a real dent in greenhouse emissions.

More precisely, it is a reduction that is not required by law and would not have happened without the opportunity for financial support from the carbon offset market.

More on tree hugging: 14 Strange and Fabulous Trees (Slideshow) Seedbomb Instills Fear And Plants Trees Big Tree Climate Fund Joins the Carbon Offset Market Odwalla Launches 2009 Plant a Tree Program

But the offsets market is moving so fast, and is so mainstream, that we may have trouble keeping up with it.»

Peruvian farmers are about to get a windfall — and it's all thanks to the burgeoning carbon offsetting market.

The carbon offsets market is one way to accomplish that.»

What if there was no offset market, The Post asked?

Think of it this way: If that mass tree planting referred to above would have happened whether or not you bought your greenhouse gas (GHG) offset — or whether an offset market even existed — then what's been accomplished?

Research showed a way to provide funding and protect the habitat: the forest carbon offsets market.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

«Growth and development of a robust compliance - driven offset market portends expansion of policy learning,» he said.

For another take on the recent FTC hearing, we recommend you check out Adam Stern's take and, for some more background, an overview of additionality and the offset market here and here.

Center for American ProgressAccording to Project Catalyst, emission reductions on the low end have improved largely due to countries such as Brazil and Indonesia strengthening their own direct commitments for reductions, rather than, for example, only providing a less expensive offset market through deforestation projects for developed countries.

Policy - makers who are looking for new ways to mitigate climate change have latched onto this fact, and want to use soil carbon sequestration to create a new carbon offset market.

The first rice offset credits will be issued this summer, and the farms plan to verify emissions reductions this growing season for the California compliance offset market.

Chinese trading firm Sovran has reached a deal to buy a NYSE - Euronext listed telecoms company, which it intends to use as a platform to trade carbon in the EU ETS and CORSIA aviation offset market.

Published 08:39 on January 19, 2018 / Last updated at 12:20 on January 19, 2018 / China, China's National ETS, China's Offset Market, China's Pilot Markets / No Comments