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• Taking Stock of Climate Change Efforts: As European Carbon Market Falters, CA Expands Cap and Trade to Canada

  
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  Unlike many environmental problems, which can be addressed at a local or regional scale, climate change is inherently global in nature: greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from any source join with historic and contemporary GHG emissions from other sources globally to contribute to the total store of GHGs in the ...
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• UN Carbon Has Biggest Jump Since 2011 as EU Factories Tap Quota

  
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  United Nations Certified Emission Reduction credits had their biggest one-day gain since Dec. 20, 2011 amid speculation factories and utilities are using the carbon offsets to meet European Union pollution targets. CERs for December rose 18 percent to close at 40 euro cents ($0.52) a metric ton on the ICE Futures ...
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• TerraPass Helps VivaTerra Green Up its Shipping

  
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  Online and catalog green lifestyle retailer VivaTerra will make its operations even greener by purchasing carbon offsets and renewable energy credits (RECs) from TerraPass, a leading provider of such products. Customers will be given the choice to purchase carbon offsets during check-out in order to mitigate the ...
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• Protecting carbon to destroy forests? Land enclosures and REDD+

  
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  A new report argues that REDD+ gives forest destroyers a way to legitimize their actions and reinforces historical inequalities. Protecting carbon to destroy forests? Land enclosures and REDD+ is a post from: OurWorld 2.0
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• Celebrating Planet and People on Earth Day

  
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  Today, social responsibility is considered a fundamental tenet of Earth Day. Even more striking is the role of business in the environmental discussion. On April 22, 2013, both the social and business cases for environmental sustainability were powerfully emphasized at the first-ever REDD+ Talks. The post ...
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• International Outcry against California’s Forest Offset Scam

  
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  Global civil society rejects REDD in climate law Indigenous Environmental Network – From Africa to the Amazon, from Chiapas to Siberia, global civil society is raising an international outcry to resoundingly reject California’s proposed forest...
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• CarbonStory, a Crowdfunding Source for Carbon Offsets

  
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  CarbonStory http://carbonstory.org/ [ GreenBiz ] …a new crowdfunding site for carbon offsets aims to use its platform to go beyond engaging concerned individuals. CarbonStory wants to get companies on board to launch employee engagement programs — and perhaps even the customers of company brands — through ...
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• Exit Interview: Nancy Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farm

  
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  The companys sustainability heads reflects on what she learned, what inspired her and what she’ll miss.
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• New crowdfunding site for carbon offsets forges unique path

  
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  The social startup seeks to develop partnerships with companies that would use it to build employee and customer brand engagement.  
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• Offset use surges in 2012 to close in on total cap

  
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  Update: Offset use surges in 2012 to close in on total cap 02 May 2013 16:14:00 (Updated throughout to add information about the length of CERs and ERUs in the market.) Companies used around half a billion carbon offsets to cover their 2012 emissions the same amount as for all of the rest of phase [...]
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• Let’s Hear It For Science!

  
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  Although it may not have always been my favorite subject in school, I am a big fan of science. I’m especially fond of the kind of science that improves people’s lives. To show my appreciation, and to call out some good and amazing things that are happening in the world at this very moment, I’d [...]
  3 weeks ago

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