Sentences with phrase «used voluntary carbon»

Companies like Unilever, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, and General Motors have all used voluntary carbon markets to drive down emissions and raise awareness at the same time.

For example, the WBCSD is developing its Natural Climate Solutions project to use the voluntary carbon market to direct funding to land - use projects that store carbon.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Therefore those companies who use cheap offsets either voluntary or sanctioned by State governments will wangle themselves carbon tax deductions for those offsets.

The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) has become synonymous with best practice in the voluntary carbon market and all members only use offsets verified under the most widely respected compliance and voluntary standards.

We helped to develop the voluntary carbon market — from its foundation, to writing methodologies now used as standard around the world, to measure and verify carbon reductions.

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.

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).

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.

With the EU highly unlikely to use offsets unless government agrees to deepen a proposed carbon reduction target beyond 40 %, the main source of demand for forest offsets in the short term might be restricted to California's carbon reduction scheme and the voluntary carbon market.

Using a choice experiment conducted among more than a thousand Swiss consumers, we analyze the individual demand for voluntary carbon offsets in different contexts.

Over the past three years, the EPA's corporate partners have increased their voluntary green power commitments by more than 30 percent, while the list of Fortune 500 members grew by 20 percent, totaling 61 companies that buy more than 7 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) of green power, the equivalent environmental impact of avoiding the annual carbon - dioxide emissions from electricity use of nearly 644,000 average American homes.

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows for the voluntary use of carbon markets to offset emissions.