Sentences with phrase «voluntary offset demand»

In 2011, corporate buyers continued to dominate the market, contributing $ 368 million — or nearly 65 % — of the market's total value, with European corporate buyers remaining the largest source of voluntary offset demand.

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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.

One of those surprises came from the United States which emerged as the world's largest single - country buyer of voluntary offsets despite the lack of impending regulations that had previously sparked demand from companies looking to get a leg up on the law.

The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.

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.

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 %.