Sentences with phrase «on voluntary carbon»

By strategically applying compost to grasslands, ranchers have the opportunity to generate revenue from environmental stewardship through the sale of emission reductions on voluntary carbon markets.

19 November 2014 After a long courtship, the most popular carbon standard and the leading co-benefits standard on the voluntary carbon market have taken their relationship to the next level: The Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) will now manage the day - to - day operations of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards.

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The tribe wants to know how many trees they have and how much they grow from year to year so they can get compensated for carbon sequestration on the voluntary carbon market.

Landowners who restore peat soils can use this methodology to document and sell carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market.

Credits are being sold on voluntary carbon - trading markets (for companies and individuals seeking to offset emissions contributing to global warming).

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.

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.

Not exact matches

On 1 July this year NCOS came into effect.1 It is designed to give Australian businesses, particularly farm businesses, opportunities to develop offset credits for voluntary carbon markets.

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

Keurig Green Mountain coffee roasters challenged their own success with voluntary carbon reduction targets and, in partnership with NativeEnergy, helped create the Alex Little Soldier Wind Turbine project — the nation's first, tribal - owned, large scale wind turbine on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

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.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

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.

Companies based in regions with regulatory carbon pricing programs were more likely to buy carbon offsets, even on a voluntary basis, than companies based in locations without a cap - and - trade system or carbon tax.

Mr. Bush set a policy that until 2012 would rely on voluntary measures by industries to slow growth in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases.

Five years on, the track record in voluntary carbon bears that out: with few exceptions, voluntary REDD projects work by helping local people develop sustainable livelihoods.

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.

Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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

We're pleased to report that new offset projects are already in the development pipeline utilizing the four new voluntary carbon offset methodologies approved by ACR in 2012 including a first - of - akind methodology for emissions reductions from Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands, a rigorous and pragmatic methodology for Reduced Use of Fertilizer on Agricultural Crops, a ground - breaking methodology for Truck Stop Electrification that offers air quality co-benefits, and long - awaited REDD methodology modules.

Based on current knowledge, it is expected that good quality projects from the following programs from both the compliance and voluntary carbon markets will be eligible: Clean Development Mechanism, Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry, and a new mechanism which is being developed under the Paris Agreement.

Participating farmers in this first rice project will implement voluntary management practices on their fields to reduce methane emissions, earning carbon credits to be sold in the voluntary and potentially the California carbon markets.

But Ecosystem Marketplace's latest report on the voluntary and compliance markets shows forest carbon projects already having an impact an impact that could multiply if the right policy signals are sent.

Take carbon prices on the voluntary Chicago Climate Exchange during the 2008 financial crisis, said Nicolas Kosoy, an ecological economist at McGill University in Montreal.

Even after a price on carbon is in place, it'll coexist with voluntary carbon offsetting.

The U.S. government has opted for voluntary controls on carbon dioxide, but last year the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution calling for mandatory emission limits.

Further, because REDD is not yet sanctioned under an international framework on climate, credits from avoided deforestation are limited to voluntary markets where they are worth substantially less than carbon credits in compliance markets.

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).

Ranking of ten voluntary forest carbon standards was based on contracted forest offset purchase volume in 2011.

They must determine how many carbon credits the preservation of any particular forest can demand on what is now a voluntary carbon market.

The Forum focuses on business - critical information for mandatory and voluntary participants in Ontario's cap and trade program including navigating market uncertainties and developing successful carbon strategies.

However, according to Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, an expert in International Law and the Law of the Sea at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who also attended the Woods Hole meeting, ocean fertilization projects are not currently approved under any carbon credit regulatory scheme and the sale of offsets or credits from ocean fertilization on the unregulated voluntary markets is basically nothing short of fraudulent.

Now, I know what I said before — about voluntary carbon offsets being an enabling mechanism more than an incentive, and that's true, but one way they enable companies to reduce is to create an «internal price» on carbon — a price companies can use to push greenhouse - gas emissions into the corporate consciousness.

Last November president Xi Jinping announced the country would target an emissions peak by 2030, building on its 2009 voluntary target to cut the carbon intensity of GDP 40 - 45 % by 2020.

However, there is a disconnect between where science says we need to be and how far the Paris Agreement will take us, and the voluntary carbon market is crucial in bridging the gap on the global goal of a 2 °C limit.

The jump in results - based finance last year was thanks in large part to a 200 % increase in demand for forest carbon offsets on regulatory markets, namely in California and Australia, with voluntary demand also growing 18 %.

Agreed to on the sidelines of COP16 in Cancun and signed on New Year's Eve, the deal between the two organizations proves their mutual commitment to making 2011 the year voluntary carbon offset trading grows to record levels.

The Bank provides funds to farmers who generate carbon credits, which are sold on the voluntary market to generate sustainable income, recapitalize itself and expand farmer participation in the program.

«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.

Going on to suggest: «Early indications suggest the smallish voluntary market, and especially Australian - based offset origination activities for the voluntary trade, face significant collateral damage from Australia becoming a Kyoto - capped country, and from the impending introduction of a much bigger compliance market for carbon trading.»

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

The U.S. is seeking an agreement based on voluntary reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by each nation.