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• SA missing the carbon bandwagon

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Timeslive.co.za | Companies around the world are hunting for investments in developing countries to improve their carbon profiles – but South Africa has been slow to cash in. Fewer than 20 South African projects are registered with the international Clean Development Mechanism as providers of ...
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• Carbon Offsetting Versus True Green Hosting

  
  Web Hosting Geeks' Blog - News, Trends, Discussions. — Authority: 125
  It can be quite tricky when attempting to determine the difference between a web hosting company that touts itself as being 100% eco-friendly and a web hosting company that offers true green hosting.  What is the difference?  One purchases carbon offset credits in the equivalent of what they produce in carbon ...
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• Injet offers carbon offsetting option to jetsetters

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 438
  Injet, a company which offers private jet services, is now allowing businesses and individuals to offset the emissions of their air travels. Supported by TerraPass, Inject’s newly developed green programme lets passengers to choose from various carbon offsetting models depending on the size of the jet. Terrapass is ...
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• United Kingdom Defines Carbon Neutrality for the First Time

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Broadbandbreakfast.com | WASHINGTON, November 15, 2009 – The government of the United Kingdom defined the term “carbon neutral” this month after holding a public consultation on the subject. The Department of Energy and Climate Change, which was established in 2008, said that “carbon ...
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• Green Credibility is like Credibility:Easy to Lose

  
  Ecotourism: Taking Pictures and Leaving Footprints — Authority: 112
  Image by Getty Images via DaylifeI recently read that Responsible Travel, an authoritative green travelling website, changed its minds on carbon offset and decided not to offer it as product any more and condemn the use of it. As it is quite controversial to offset flights, I can understand their new position. The ...
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• John Blakeley: Carbon trading an indulgence we can’t afford

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Nzherald.co.nz | Michael Kinsley, writing in Time magazine in an article entitled “Credit for bad behaviour” in July 2007, suggested that the purchase of carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions could be compared with the Middle Ages practice of buying indulgences for the forgiveness of ...
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• Australians Think Locally, but will They be Allowed to Act?

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Cosystemmarketplace.com | Broad but not deep, Australia’s new mandatory cap-and-trade regime limits the emissions of industries responsible for 75% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Those limits, however, are weak compared to those of most developed countries, and critics say the law actually ...
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• Singapore on track to start carbon credit trades by year-end

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Businessgreen.com | A new commodities exchange planned for Singapore is on schedule to start trading in carbon credits by year-end, according to a senior government official. In a speech yesterday at the Carbon Forum Asia conference, senior minister of state for trade and industry S. Iswaran said ...
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• CarbonTwin Launches an Innovative Concept in an Attempt to Shake the $55M Carbon Offset Industry: Buy Carbon Offset for Free

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From PRWeb.com | CarbonTwin.com is the world’s first social network that attempts to eliminate paying for carbon offsets, introducing a simple idea: instead of paying a fortune for carbon offsets, members at CarbonTwin offset their carbon offsets for free with other members, based on their carbon ...
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• First Official Carbon Offset Supplier to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Offsetters.ca | We’re proud to be the first Official Carbon Offset Supplier to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) has assessed the unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions from all their ...
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• Vancouver Olympics push for carbon-neutral status

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Vancouversun.com | Twenty-five partners of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games have joined forces to help make the Games carbon-neutral. The partners — including corporate sponsors, governments and broadcasters — have volunteered to offset some of their own carbon emissions related to the ...
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• Voluntary carbon market receives liquidity boost

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Businessgreen.com | Voluntary Carbon Standard Association says new registry transfer system will make it easier for firms to trade offsets between regions Trading in carbon offset credits between different countries should become significantly easier from today with the launch of an upgraded system ...
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• Five new travel ideas from Intrepid: get off the beaten path!

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Africa , Europe , North America , Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , South Africa , Iceland , United States , Ecotourism , Travel Deals After a year of "travel slumps," " staycations " and other cringeworthy words and conditions, lets plan to get out on the road next year. Hey, ...
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• Wayoutback Desert Safaris to fund carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From ETravelblackboard.com | Northern Territory tourism operator Wayoutback Desert Safaris announced Monday it will now fully fund carbon credit payments for paying customers. The Australian tour company said the move comes as Tourism NT stops its Carbon Offset Pilot program. Wayoutback Desert Safaris ...
  6 days ago

• InJet Partners With TerraPass To Offer Customers Carbon Offsets For Flights

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Nawindpower.com | West Palm Beach, Fla.-based-InJet LLC, a provider of private jet services, is partnering with TerraPass, a consumer retailer and marketer of greenhouse gas reduction offsets. Through the partnership, InJet members can subscribe to offset the carbon emissions from their flights. ...
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• Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt but Not Emissions

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  The sheer size of the airline industry’s contribution to emissions makes it hard to judge the effectiveness of carbon offset programs.
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• Going Green With Carbon Credits

  
  electronics-council.com — Authority: 155
  The rising levels of harmful greenhouse gases such as CO2 in the air has led to global concern over the increasingly devastating effects they have on the environment. Methods like carbon offset and carbon credits were proposed to improve the situation by providing incentives to organizations so that they conduct their ...
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• The Fundamentals Of Carbon Credits And Its Advantages

  
  electronics-council.com — Authority: 155
  Carbon credits and carbon trading are common topics for debates and conventions on environmental matters, but most of us are not completely acquainted with these terms. In the system of carbon trading, regulations are put on greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and the prescribed emission limits are then ...
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• Carbon Offset – A Great Way To Save The Planet

  
  electronics-council.com — Authority: 155
  Carbon offset is helping to save the world from the catastrophic effects of ecological deterioration and global warming by its mission to reduce carbon emissions in large industries and manufacturing entities, as well as at a personal level. The unregulated emission of hazardous greenhouse gases is checked by the ...
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• The Flourishing Carbon Trading Market

  
  electronics-council.com — Authority: 155
  Carbon trading is a method adopted to decrease the carbon emissions by industrialized countries, and the method has received wide approval throughout the world in recent times. Carbon trading is basically a trade in carbon credits in which each credit allows the buyer to release one tonne of carbon dioxide and other ...
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