Sentences with phrase «voluntary markets»

Australia is already open to projects or project investment through offsets for voluntary markets.

If the aviation industry were to buy credits of unknown quality from these voluntary markets as well, on paper it would seem as if airlines were offsetting their emissions, but, in practice, the atmosphere would not be fooled.

But there is a wild west of voluntary markets, created outside of the climate convention, that operate under different rules and regulations.

«But Brazil's Federal Government will not consider — as they have never considered — the credits generated under the voluntary markets for the UNFCCC processes or negotiations.»

«It does not affect the voluntary markets,» said Pedro Gandolfo Soares, coordinator of the Carbon Neutral Program for the Brazilian NGO Idesam.

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.

The bank hoped to lock up forestry carbon credits while they were cheap and sell them at a higher price in either voluntary markets or should they emerge, compliance markets.

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.

For example, credits on voluntary markets like the Chicago Climate Exchange currently trade at an 80 - 90 percent discount to the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

Still, transaction volumes on the voluntary markets shrank 24 % from 2015 to 2016.

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).

That's more than all the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined, and it's based only on voluntary markets.

Ten authors with a background as negotiators representing developing countries, business and researchers cover three inter-related issues; 1) policy perspectives globally, from EU, China, US and Canada and the role of UN, 2) existing instruments including CDM and voluntary markets and 3) new instruments such as sector approaches and new market mechanisms.

Over the next two weeks, however, negotiators will look to lessons learned in the voluntary markets while looking for ways to integrate REDD into the UNFCCC — for only with that integration can REDD achieve the kind of scale necessary to really make a difference on a global scale.

Through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and voluntary markets, carbon finance is emerging as an attractive option to help scale - up cookstove projects.

After all, the voluntary markets embraced the landscapes approach because it proved to be the most effective way to reduce deforestation, and not because they had a mandate to do so.

«On top of this, you have voluntary markets doing something totally different involving the private sector, and California is doing something in another zone, also in the private sector,» says Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment & Climate Change and executive director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.

For those who can't gain homeowners insurance through the voluntary market, the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) is the market of last resort.

Voluntary / worksite sales in 2016 rose 7 percent to $ 7.63 billion, according to Eastbridge Consulting, a voluntary market tracking firm.

The industry has engaged with the AMA, Governments and regulators around the country informing them of the voluntary marketing and promotion restrictions it has implemented over and above existing legislation.

If you would like to get involved with offsets, both Kollmuss and climate blogger Romm recommend projects certified by the Gold Standard Foundation as the most rigorously vetted ones on the voluntary market.

U.K. ETS = United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme, a voluntary market.

N.S.W. = New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme, a voluntary market.

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

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.

This is a state - funded risk pool designed for people who can not reasonably get insurance on the voluntary market.

Often the coverage from an insurer of last resort is somewhat limited compared to a standard policy, and it may or may not be significantly more expensive than coverage on the voluntary market would be.

That would be if you're looking for renters insurance in a difficult to place area, or you have a large number of claims, or your credit is making it difficult to place the policy on the voluntary market.

Most states have a market of last resort, often called the FAIR Plan, that allows you to get coverage when it's not available on the voluntary market.

That could raise your premiums or even make it difficult to find insurance on the voluntary market.

There may also be companies in the voluntary market that are a better fit for your scenario.

Few will receive multiple declines for renters insurance on the voluntary market.

As a result, coverage may not match the voluntary market.

The voluntary market serves the majority of people effectively.

For reasons that have yet to be disclosed, select Hill's Science Diet products have been removed from PetSmart retail locations as a result of a «voluntary market withdrawal.»

I know that people love to talk about all the opportunities that exist in the field of reducing carbon, but I can't imagine any scenario in which voluntary market - based solutions could produce a useful result in a sufficiently short time frame.

ACR also operates a robust and secure electronic registry system, powered by APX, for members to register California and voluntary market projects and record the issuance, transfer and retirement of serialized, project - based and independently verified offsets.

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.

register California and voluntary market projects and record the issuance, transfer and retirement of serialized, project - based and independently verified offsets.

In the voluntary market, ACR oversees the registration and independent verification of projects that meet ACR Standards and follow ACR approved carbon accounting methodologies, which ensure accuracy, precision and rigor in the measurement, monitoring and

We expect the resulting offset projects to be very popular in the voluntary market, where buyers favor high quality carbon offsets with a compelling story, such as those that manage, protect and replant forests.»

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.

The CAR's Emission Reduction Unit (ERU) Reserve is intended to address the loss of regulatory surplus and grid emissions benefits in the voluntary market.

It includes, in addition to internal reductions, a commitment to financing external emission reductions either through buying voluntary market carbon credits or by funding activities directly.

That will be the space for voluntary market.»

Among a suite of recommendations to ramp up climate action, it proposes «a voluntary market or other mechanisms» to incentivize «earth - friendly agriculture.»

«We want to encourage energy - intensive companies to come to the voluntary market and invest in these natural climate solutions,» she said.

Forest carbon offsets are also widely sought after in the voluntary market, where corporate social responsibility buyers seek «charismatic» carbon offsets, such as those that protect forests.

A lot of prominent brands use offsetting, including household names like General Motors, Delta Air Lines, and Microsoft, all of whom were among the top five buyers on the voluntary market in 2014.

Carbon offsets can be sold in the voluntary market to corporations and organizations purchasing offsets to meet internal sustainability goals.