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• European taxpayers lose €5bn in carbon trading fraud

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Europol says EUs Emission Trading System in peril • Fraudsters could target gas and electricity markets next The European Union has probably lost at least €5bn (£4.5bn) to VAT fraud related to carbon trading and there is a risk that the criminals will now shift their attention to Europes electricity and ...
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• 52 Ways to Lower Your Carbon Footprint in College

  
  Green Home Hints and Tips - Household Green Cleaning Eco Friendly Products, Green products, Energy Saving Tips, Water Efficiency — Authority: 106
  I was recently contacted by Carolyn Friedman of Surgical Technician Schools.  She has a website that assists folks in locating Surgical Technician Schools as well as providing information on how to become prepared for such a venture.  From STS:“Becoming a surgical technician requires a clinical program that ...
  4 days ago

• Letters: Deal or no deal at Copenhagen?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Your article( Leaked draft deal widens rift between rich and poor nations , 9 December) underlines the view that an increasing number of us have: that a mediocre and unjust agreement at Copenhagen – which is all that we could possibly get now – would be worse than no agreement at all. It is important to understand ...
  5 days ago

• Carbon emissions data: can the Copenhagen climate summit bring these down? Full data, new viz

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Copenhagen climate change summit has started. Now, the US is no longer number one emitter of carbon dioxide, having been overtaken by China in these latest figures. But when did it happen? 阅读中文 | Read this in Chinese • Get the data The Csummit is finally here - and Copenhagen is likely to be a ...
  1 week ago

• Letters: Cap and trade will reduce emissions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Your article ( Fear that $3tn market of future benefits few , 30 November) raises many of the issues examined in my recent report to the prime minister on global carbon trading. Cap and trade provides a guaranteed limit on emissions, while reducing the cost of compliance, and is a proven system for delivering real ...
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• Letters: Undeniable truths about climate change

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are created by economic activity: industrial production, agriculture, transportation and material consumption. Therefore to reduce emissions to the degree mandated by scientific evidence, it is inescapable that we must curtail economic activity. To do that requires us to move ...
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• Copenhagen summit: Denmark rushes in laws to stop carbon trading scam

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Climate change summit host embarrassed as criminals make most of lax laws to pocket VAT on emissions trading Europes flagship carbon trading scheme suffered a blow today as the Danish government was forced to rush an emergency law through parliament to clamp down on a virulent form of VAT fraud. On the eve of the ...
  1 week ago

• Population offsetting? Fertile ground for ridicule | Leo Hickman

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The idea that developed nations should pay for poorer countries birth control to offset emissions sends out the wrong message " Rich nations to offset emissions with birth control ." At first sight, I thought it was a satirical headline from the Onion . Good one, I thought: theyre imagining carbon offsetting at its ...
  1 week ago

• Indefinite population growth is not an option | David Burton

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  The Optimum Population trust will enable carbon offsets to be made through family planning to help the worlds poorest women The Optimum Population trust today launched a unique project that enables carbon offsets to be made through the support of family planning. This innovative approach stems from a report ...
  1 week ago

• Rich nations to offset emissions with birth control

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Radical plan to cut CO2 argues that paying for family planning is developing world is the best bet Consumers in the developed world are to be offered a radical method of offsetting their carbon emissions in an ambitious attempt to tackle climate change - by paying for contraception measures in poorer countries to ...
  1 week ago

• Enough posturing politics. Time to let the experts lead | Jeffrey Sachs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Copenhagen must mark the end of politician-dominated negotiation. The technical stuff has to come out of the shadows We can only marvel at the disarray. Here we are, 17 years after the signing of the UN framework convention on climate change , two years after the decision in Bali to agree a new climate policy, one ...
  1 week ago

• Cheat Neutral

  
  Sound Of Sirens — Authority: 115
  Helping you because you can’t help yourself Cheatneutral is about offsetting infidelity. We’re the only people doing it, and Cheatneutral is a joke. Carbon offsetting is about paying for the right to carry on emitting carbon. The Carbon offset industry sold £60 million of offsets last year, and is rapidly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon Offsetting Versus True Green Hosting

  
  Web Hosting Geeks' Blog - News, Trends, Discussions. — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• InJet Offers Carbon Offsetting for Private Jets

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 436
  One of the most controversial issues relating to climate change is the practice of carbon offsetting.  While some think is a great way for individuals and businesses to balance out the carbon that they emit into the environment, others feel it simply puts a band-aid on the issue and allows people to continue to abuse ...
  3 weeks ago

• Energy bill generates weak signal | Queens speech | James Randerson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  With Copenhagen just days away the ragtag bill in the Queens speech failed to send the message the green sector needs The political chatter ahead of the Queens speech was all about Labour using its final throw of the legislative dice to draw clear battle lines with the Tories . If that is the case elsewhere in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK Staff Clueless about Company Green Policy

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 436
  If you asked most people if they thought their office was environmentally friendly, most would think of the recycling bin next to the copy machine and answer that they thought their company was green.  A recent study confirmed that most United Kingdom employees think that their company is green, when in reality it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Response: The European emissions trading scheme is now a success

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it worked Your article is profoundly disheartening ( Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report , 5 November). Instead of adding political pressure to commit to emissions reduction targets, FoE criticises carbon markets and ...
  4 weeks ago

• David de Rothschild loves life off the grid

  
  Off-Grid - life unplugged: solar, wind, hydro, architecture, smallholdings, free stuff — Authority: 491
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• How green are these corporations? Latest carbon disclosure project scores

  
  News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 123
  How environmentally aware is the FTSE350? Research by the Carbon Disclosure Project aims to give us a picture The work of the Carbon Disclosure Project in diligently attempting to survey every major corporation produces a unique snapshot of the corporate carbon culture. This years FTSE 350 Report shows UK ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 124
  All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The longer they can delay action on climate the better. But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. ...
  4 weeks ago

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