Sentences with phrase «offset programs»

The site has a clear rating system that denotes commitments as small as cardboard recycling to as significant as carbon offset programs and biodiesel trucks.

IPA consultation projects have great potential to participate in the Carbon offsets / abatement and biodiversity offset programs.

The review was initially slated for 2009, but is being moved up due to the rapid increase in marketing things like carbon offset programs, a «$ 55 million market that is largely unregulated.»

Nor does it appear that the Japanese want to kill off emission trading and offset programs under the Kyoto Protocol.

Here's a good example of how not to do carbon offsets, as well as the potential danger in relying on sub-national REDD offset programs rather than reducing emissions at the source: Greenpeace USA has just released a new report highlight the failures of the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project in Bolivia, sponsored by American Electric Power, BP, and PacifiCorp.

With all carbon offset programs comes the same problem; people can fly all they want, drive all they want, consume all they want and simply offset it all with a few hundred dollars a year.

Paul Lingl, a climate campaigner with the Suzuki Foundation, says that because of these concerns, scientists and NGOs have come up with a rating system for assessing offset programs.

Carbon offset programs reward forest owners who adjust their land management practice to achieve greater carbon sequestration.

He says there remains an inherent problem with these voluntary offset programs.

The David Suzuki Foundation offers a list of offset programs, but doesn't endorse any of them.

Dozens of web sites now offer carbon offset programs (the David Suzuki Foundation offers a list) which allows you to calculate just how much CO2 your jet - setting will spew.

Carbon offset programs that fund reforestation efforts are positive, but will never even come close to scratching the surface of the problem.

The study, supported by Entergy Corporation through their Environmental Initiatives Fund, and prepared in partnership by New Orleans - based Tierra Resources and Portland - based nonprofit The Climate Trust, examines existing wetland restoration techniques — river diversions, hydrologic restoration, wetland assimilation, and mangrove plantings — identifying areas for future scientific investigation to support carbon offset programs.

«Many of our Guests are looking for an opportunity to offset their carbon footprint and we are confident that Carbonzero has quality offset programs, based in Canada, which will provide our Guests with that opportunity.»

boundbysound has committed to mitigate the environmental impact of their international artist flights by supporting regional carbon offset programs.

While many carbon offset programs can seem inaccessible as they're geared toward businesses, there are several carbon offsetting programs that make it easy for individuals:

There are currently no offset programs for Indonesia's peatlands.

For a host of factual reasons, I am incredulous of the long term efficacy of most all carbon offset programs.

This is the problem of «additionality,» which comes up in spades in the case of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), but also in the context of most other offset programs.

Other airlines, including Air Canada, Cathay Pacific, Virgin Blue, and SAS have similar offset programs, which have come under fire lately as ineffective or worse.

Tribes and Native - owned corporations are making huge profits by conserving their forests for carbon offset programs — an effort that could revolutionize conservation.

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.

Carbon offset programs must be carefully designed to ensure the savings are genuine, quantifiable, permanent and additional.

Whilst there will always be some margin for error and projects may not perform as expected, the best carbon offset programs mitigate the risk by establishing a «buffer pool» — a portion of offsets held in reserve to cover any potential underperformance or impermanence issues.

In the meantime, some airlines have also announced plans to begin or expand their use of biofuels on certain flights, or have begun offering carbon offset programs.

Brown was challenged by a group of protesters opposed to carbon offset programs they said could hurt indigenous people.

To date, the primary risk - mitigation mechanism for forest carbon projects has been the buffer pool, a model pioneered by Winrock International and now employed by all major carbon offset programs including ACR.

According to the mayor's press release, it will also provide «City government, residents and businesses information regarding the true costs of carbon intensive activities, which are likely to be much higher than nominal amounts charged by several current offset programs.»

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am in favor of approaches that can have a real and positive net impact in helping to address the problem, which might well include some of the personal credit / offset programs.

«It's really important we look at how these types of barriers might prevent landholders from getting involved in environmental offset programs and that we strategically manage weeds so that they don't become an intractable problem in the future.»

Researchers have identified gamba grass and other invasive weeds as a potential threat to landholder involvement in environmental offset programs such as the Carbon Farming Initiative.

The NHL is the first major U.S. sports league to undertake a complete carbon offset project, Bettman said, though the International Federation of Association Football, or FIFA, which serves as the international governing body for soccer worldwide, announced Wednesday that it offset all 331,000 metric tons of emissions from the this summer's World Cup in Brazil by financing offset programs.

No offset programs have been enabled other than for wetlands.

Not even a framework for offset programs, something often discussed, has been released.

Through the Treasury Offset Program (TOP), the government can seize your refund in order to repay your defaulted student loans.

In June 10, 2009, Jim Prentice announced plans for an offset program that would establish a «price on carbon.»

If you're rejected by the SBA, the administration may allow you to submit another offer, or they may send your debt to the U.S. Treasury Department for collection under the Treasury Offset Program.

When the Draft Provincial Woodland Caribou Range Plan was finally released by Alberta in December 2017, however, the only mention of offsetting was the following (at p 30): «The Caribou Habitat Restoration Committee will make recommendations to Alberta on the role of an offsets program.»

The good news in this press release ended for me when I read, «Alberta is updating its carbon offset program to allow multiple - credits... (for)... large - scale, direct injection CCS projects.»

So, as far as I can see, essentially the same outcome as the double - credits achieves, both in terms of revenue for Shell and cost to the CCEMF could have been achieved with a $ 15 per - ton - sequestered payment from the CCEMC without sacrificing the integrity of emissions reduction accounting within the offset program.

If you believe that your case should be eligible for the Federal Tax Refund Offset Program, or you suspect that the other parent has received his or her tax refund in error, contact your local Office of Child Support Enforcement.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

Roddy Gabel, who oversees import / export permitting for FWS, explains that research projects that do not directly benefit wild chimpanzee could still receive permits via «enhancement,» which is akin to a carbon - offset program.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

«(1) any person in the United States to exchange instruments in the nature of offset credits issued before January 1, 2009, by a State or voluntary offset program with respect to which the Administrator has made an affirmative determination under section 740 (a)(2), for emissions allowances established by the Administrator under section 721 (a); and

This workshop will discuss key environmental considerations in the development of a REDD offset program including the establishment of reference levels against which emissions reductions should be measured, systems to monitor, report and verify avoided deforestation and degradation, and ways to ensure that programmatic emissions reductions are in addition to those that would have otherwise taken place.

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.

Followed by Tax topic 203 talking about the OFFSET program and back child support.

The Federal Government will try to use the Treasury Offset Program.

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service's Debt Management Service (DMS) administers the Treasury Offset Program (TOP).