Sentences with phrase «voluntary carbon offsets from»

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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.

With the promise of revenue from carbon offsets, a methane gas collection and control system at the Bi-County Municipal Landfill was built as a completely voluntary action.

In the voluntary market, agriculture - based carbon offsets, such as those created from rice management practices, can be sold to corporations to meet their internal sustainability goals, reduce their carbon footprints and to green their supply chains.

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.

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.

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

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.

Projects adhering to the ACR standard contracted the largest volume of forest carbon credits from any North American program... owing to their popularity among purely voluntary buyers based primarily in the U.S.» Corporate Social Responsibility buyers of the two million ACR forest offsets transacted in 2011 included Norfolk Southern, General Motors / Chevrolet and The Walt Disney Company.

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.

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

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.»

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 prOffset 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 proffset program.