Sentences with phrase «voluntary carbon offsets»

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

Despite the lack of mandated standards for voluntary carbon offsets, marketers should generally avoid making false or misleading environmental claims.

The most common way to achieve carbon neutrality is by buying voluntary carbon offsets that make up for things like private air travel and driving.

It does however provide Australian businesses with an opportunity to demonstrate business leadership by incorporating voluntary carbon offset policies into their broader corporate sustainability plans.

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.

Paying to reduce an equivalent amount of carbon emissions through voluntary carbon offsetting is the most cost effective, fast and efficient way of doing this.

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.

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

This recent article in GreenBiz sets out how voluntary carbon offsetting is an essential part of the equation in helping companies Continue Reading»

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.

Subtitled «Do voluntary carbon offsets help counteract greenhouse gases, or are they just a way for guilt - ridden consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?»

The group is the first body in Israel to utilize voluntary carbon offsetting through its own carbon offsetting projects.

31 May 2012 Cologne, Carbon Expo The market for voluntary carbon offsetting hit a three - year high in 2011, transacting more than $ 576 million of offsets, second only to 2008's record $ 776 million.

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

Concerned citizens, corporations, and sub-national governments moved ahead with their battle against climate change by purchasing voluntary carbon offsets from projects that reduce emissions through forest protection, renewable energy, and other means.

SYDNEY; LONDON; ARLINGTON, Va. (Jan. 10, 2011)-- The Carbon Trade Exchange and Winrock International's American Carbon Registry announced a new partnership today that demonstrates a commitment to take voluntary carbon offset trading to a new level.

It also aims to demonstrate the role and benefits of voluntary carbon offsetting in corporate carbon reduction programmes

ClimateCare is one of the largest retailers of voluntary carbon offsets by volume and works with partners to deliver some of the most extensive climate and development programmes in the world.

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

The most common way to achieve carbon neutrality is by buying voluntary carbon offsets that make up for things like private air travel and driving.There are other ways to reach carbon neutrality, they include planting trees, counting clean commuting and making changes in an office environment, but those are far less common.

This recent article in GreenBiz sets out how voluntary carbon offsetting is an essential part of the equation in helping companies meet their carbon management targets, and take full responsibility for their carbon emissions.

But its promise of «carbon neutral» flying through voluntary carbon offsetting is delusive, posing new threats to the environment and communities.

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.

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.

Assessed against the background of the total volume of emission reductions, VCS is the globally leading standard for voluntary carbon offsets.

Read this blog, where Rob Stevens responds to some of the common questions to help you decide if a voluntary carbon offset programme should be part of your business's carbon management strategy.

Geneva, 15 September - ICROA, in cooperation with Imperial College London and the UNFCCC, has launched a global survey to investigate the drivers behind corporate engagement in voluntary carbon offsetting and climate change mitigation strategies.

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.

Given the scale of the climate problem, and the need for companies to address emissions within their wider value chain, it's time to reassess the role of voluntary carbon offsets, say experts.

Here, Robert Stevens from ClimateCare, a recently certified B Corporation and winner of a Queen's Award for Sustainable Development for its outstanding contribution to tackling climate change and alleviating poverty, responds to some of the common questions that surround carbon offsetting, to help you decide if a voluntary carbon offset programme should be part of your business's carbon management strategy.

Similar to appropriate certification standards for voluntary carbon offsetting, the Water Benefit Standard serves as a benchmark for high - quality water projects that assess environmental and socio - economic benefits in a credible and transparent manner.

COTAP and voluntary carbon offsetting in general are just one piece of a greater Climate Justice picture.

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.

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).

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.

Blasch, Julia and Farsi, Mehdi (2012): Retail demand for voluntary carbon offsets — a choice experiment among Swiss consumers.

First generated for voluntary carbon offsetting, offsets from ODS destruction are now accepted for legal compliance with California's cap - and - trade program.

Gössling, S., Haglund, L., Kallgren, H., Revahl, M. and Hultman, J.: 2009, Swedish air travellers and voluntary carbon offsets: towards the cocreation of environmental value?

Projects are deemed «additional» when the financial incentive provided by the sale of voluntary carbon offsets is verified to be a key factor in moving the project forward.

Alberto Carrillo, Head of Climate Business Engagement at WWF International, discusses the remaining emissions gap following COP21 and the future for companies in science - based target setting and voluntary carbon offsetting.

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

Gideon sent us there to learn more about the voluntary carbon offset business.

«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.

Also of note in Nova Scotia is: Bill 38, Voluntary Carbon Emissions Offset Fund Act, 2nd Sess, 61st Leg, Nova Scotia, 2010 as you might have guessed from the title an effort to create a voluntary carbon offset program.