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• ‘Business of carbon’ making things worse say Essex academics

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  Businesses and other organisations signing up to so-called ‘green’ initiatives may be doing more harm to the planet than good, warns a new book compiled by two academics from the University of Essex. Continue reading at Businessweekly.co.uk
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• Forest Carbon Scam by Energy Giants

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  In 1997, the three energy multinationals American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Paci?corp signed an agreement with the government of Bolivia. The deal involved for these companies to be allocated the carbon offsets generated by keeping trees standing, ‘in return for millions of dollars of investment for ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• What Do I Do With My Carbon Offsets?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Just over a year ago, I “purchased” one-trillion carbon offsets from this site and received “proof” of the transaction in the form of the Certificate of Carbon Offsets (right).Now, thanks to the “ClimateGate” scandal, we appear to have e-mail proof that scientists at the center of climate change research ...
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• Nature Conservancy, Blue Source Expand Realm of Forest Carbon Offsets

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 600
  Private landowners in Pennsylvania, including corporations, will be able to benefit from selling forest carbon offsets after the launch of the Working Woodlands program.The program, a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and Blue Source, will reward landowners for forest conservation by helping package forest ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• James Hansen says Copenhagen approach "fundamentally wrong" would be better to "reassess"

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  James Hansen, one of the worlds foremost climatologists, told the Guardian today that he believes the Copenhagen talks are flawed to the point where failure of the talks may be the best way forward. "The approach that is being talked about is so fundamentally wrong that it would be better to reassess," Hansen said.
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• Rich Nations Can Now Offset Carbon Emissions With... Birth Control?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Image via: blz2 on Flickr.com In what might be a seemingly dicey, controversial, ethical issue, the The Guardian is reporting this week that a new carbon offsetting scheme offers offsets not by planting trees or installing solar panels, but by funding birth control for developing nations. Recently Matthew wrote a ...
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• Offset Your CO2: Buy the Pill for the Poor

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  The worlds population has reached 6.8 billion people, and that number is growing . A year from now, its said to increase by about 86 million, or over 7 million people a month--enough to fill a city like Hong Kong. The shocking population growth only serves to exacerbate the ever-worsening climate crisis. Solutions to ...
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• Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From News.mongabay.com | Brazil will propose limiting the amount of carbon an industrialized country can offset via a proposed forest conservation initiative to ten percent of their emissions, reports Bloomberg. Brazil, which is home to the greatest extent of tropical forest and has the highest annual ...
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• Ahead of Copenhagen, EU Carbon Prices Rise 3% in One Day

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 600
  While diplomats lack optimism about reaching a climate deal, that hasn’t stopped speculators from diving headlong into the carbon markets.In advance of the Copenhagen talks, EU carbon emissions futures rose 3 percent on Dec. 3, in European trading markets.Banks have been buying more futures, reports Reuters.EU ...
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• Carbon Offsets or Car Ban, Off Streets? A Tussle over the Meaning of Green

  
  On the Level: Car Free Blog — Authority: 110
  In the days leading up to Copenhagen, it seems that everyone has been talking about false market based climate ‘solutions’ such as carbon offsetting and trading. A couple of weeks ago, I cycled over to the Green Festival in San Francisco, put on by the non-profits Global Exchange and Green America (formerly Co-op ...
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• Broker markets emissions offsets from Valley dairies

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Thebusinessjournal.com | It was announced today that the methane carbon offsets produced by 28 Valley dairies —the biggest agriculture offset basket to date — will be marketed exclusively by the UK-based broker, Tradition. The 28 Dairy Methane projects in the Valley have been successfully ...
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• Video: The Story of Cap and Trade

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals ….
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Greenwashing the conscience

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  The Beeb has an interesting article today “ Carbon offset schemes not working, says holiday firm ” that confirms something I’ve mentioned before and discussed with my colleagues at work – buying carbon offsets is really an attempt to assuage ones lifestyle guilt. Money raised under the schemes is used to ...
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• Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Triplepundit.com | Planning on travelling this holiday season?  Travelocity, the online travel agency, is serious about sustainable travel that will benefit both traveler and Mother Earth, one mile at a time. In an effort to “embrace travel as an agent of positive change,” the online travel ...
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• Copenhagen? More Like Carbonhagen!

  
  Deceiver.com — Authority: 518
  If you’ve been watching the network news lately, you haven’t heard a word about Climategate . Which might be one indication why nobody watches the network news anymore. But if you have access to this cool new thing called the Internet, there’s all sorts of information about climate scientists faking evidence ...
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• Traditional Fire Management Helps Fight Climate Change

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Image credit: cytoon /Flickr Australia is no stranger to traumatic wildfires . Climate change is the likely culprit for the continents exceptionally severe blazes, but the indigenous people of Australia have been dealing with fire—indeed, managing it—for centuries.Among Australias indigenous communities, fire is ...
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• Chicago Climate Activists target Carbon Trading for anniversary of Seattle WTO shut down – 12 arrested

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 568
  *More details and photos coming soon!* Chicago climate activists returned to the streets today – this time in the financial district in downtown  Chicago – in a colorful demonstration against cap and trade, carbon offsets and other “false solutions” to climate change.  Building on the long-term campaign to ...
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