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• Nations Argue Over CO2 Emissions Cuts, Audits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The measurement, reporting and auditing of greenhouse gas emissions by each country is a key focus of U.N. climate negotiations leading up to climate talks in Copenhagen in December, reports Reuters.Rich nations are under pressure to cut their emissions 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and spend billions in aid ...
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• 2012 Movie Set Goes Green

  
  Green Grown and Sexy — Authority: 123
  For a big budget, Hollywood-style disaster film, 2012 probably wouldn’t come to mind as an “eco film” to most people. But not only does the movie serve as a message (or warning) of the effects of impending climate change, the director, Roland Emmerich, and producers took great strides to be as green as possible ...
  19 hours ago

• Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...
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• Green-e Climate Certifies The CarbonNeutral Company’s Renewable Energy-Based Carbon Offsets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Csrwire.com | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 02 /CSRwire/ – Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) today announced that Green-e® Climate, the nation’s leading certification and verification program for retail greenhouse gas emission reduction (carbon offset) products, has certified “The CarbonNeutral ...
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• Simplot and Blue Source Forge Alliance to Serve the Carbon Market Needs of American Farmers

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  BOISE, Idaho–(Business Wire)– International food and agribusiness leader J. R. Simplot Company and leading emissions reduction project developer and offset marketer, Blue Source LLC, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance to assist American farmers interested in engaging in the carbon economy. ...
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• Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Prisonplanet.com | In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2. Before we get too excited, Gore is not ...
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• Lighten your carbon footprint when shipping a package

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From MNN.com | As president of HitchSource.com, a company that ships heavy stuff like trailer hitches, bike racks and RV accessories, Ken Whiteman was concerned about the carbon footprint of those shipments. “I wanted to look for a way to check the impact of what we were doing, and there was no easy ...
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• Group targets carbon neutrality on central Island

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From BCLocalnews.com | A sustainability group wants to localize carbon neutrality and it’s looking to the Regional District of Nanaimo for assistance. Laurie Gourlay, president of the Mid-Island Sustainability and Stewardship Initiative, approached the RDN last week about formally establishing a ...
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• ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. Signs Memorandum of Agreement With the Chehalis Indian Band for Exclusive Rights to Develop Carbon Offset Opportunities

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Earthtimes.org | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — 11/03/09 — ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR), through its wholly owned subsidiary, ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates (ERA), is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Chehalis Band Council ...
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• Buying carbon offsets could become a speculator’s game

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Guelphmercury.com | NEW YORK — The U.S. government often deals with such complicated issues and speaks in such confusing language that many Americans just seems to tune out. So it has been with “carbonomics.’’ But the time has come to pay attention, because this matter now is front and ...
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• Big-ag Strikes Again

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 132
  A few months ago, as Waxman-Markey was being dragged across the US House of Representatives’ floor, the agricultural lobby demonstrated how powerful they were, flexing their muscle and extracting concessions from the lawmakers. Now that the debate is raging in the US Senate, they’re at it again. Ricardo Bayon ...
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• Industry eyes prospects from carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com | MUMBAI: As the world takes cautious steps towards the Copenhagen climate summit, a debate on what the post-2012 scenario could possibly look like for the Indian carbon industry has started to rage. What would be the prospective market and pricing of carbon credits ...
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• Carbon Trading Could Trigger a ‘Sub-prime Style’ Economic Crash

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second ’sub-prime’ style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from a global warming catastrophe, according to a report from Friends of the Earth.The trade in carbon permits and credits, primarily based in Europe, was worth ...
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• World Energy and SOCIALCARBON Standard Partner to Streamline Voluntary Global Carbon Trading

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Money.cnn.com | SAO PAULO, Brazil and WORCESTER, MA, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES; TSX: XWE), an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced a new partnership agreement with SOCIALCARBON(C) Standard, one of the ...
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• Words unspoken

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 132
  Forest protection hinges on 10-word phrase | Green Business | Reuters . OK, that’s a worry. Developing nations could end up being paid billions of dollars to raze rainforests and build palm oil plantations in their place if the current text of the Copenhagen climate treaty sticks [...] … The 10-word ...
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• Disney Buys $7M in Reforestation Offsets, a Corporate Record

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Walt Disney Corp., by donating about $7 million to various conservation programs, aims to offset a portion of its emissions. Some are calling the move by Disney the biggest single corporate investment in forest carbon offsets to date.The move is part of Disney’s effort to use “high quality offsets” to attain a ...
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• EU Poised to Give Heavy Industry Free Carbon Permits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  European industries including metals, building materials, textiles and ceramics will benefit from free carbon permits, starting in 2013, under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.Operators in those industries complained that not having free pollution permits would make them uncompetitive with their counterparts in ...
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• EPA Lawyers Speak Out Against Cap and Trade

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 754
  Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two lawyers currently working at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke out against cap and trade in their Washington Post column. Zabel has first hand experience with cap and trade, overseeing California’s cap and trade and offsets programs. The article is full of good ...
  6 days ago

• ResponsibleTravel.com Scuttles Carbon Offsetting Option

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  One of the first travel agencies to give fliers the option to offset the carbon emissions of their flights has ceased offering the program, calling it a “medieval pardon.”Responsibletravel.com, a UK travel agency, had been offering the offsetting option since 2002. Now it believes the best way to address global ...
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• U.S. Cap-and-Trade Creates Winners and Losers among Largest Emitters

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Under the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, ExxonMobil would face an annual charge of $5.9 billion to purchase carbon allowances, while electricity giants like Exelon and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) would emerge as financial winners, because they rely heavily on diversified, low-emission fleets, according to a ...
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