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The costs, benefits and risks associated with monetizing reforestation and avoided deforestation schemes via carbon offsets and financial derivatives markets is being hotly debated by a diversity of vested interests in the run-up to the UN’s climate change talks in Copenhagen this December. An international finance and development group says it has developed the methods and means to conserve and rejuvenate tropical rain forests and biodiversity while benefiting local communities and investors. Its Peruvian arm is the first to earn internationally standard voluntary carbon offset credits for reforesting an area of the Peruvian Amazon with native tree species.
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EarthTalk for Monday, June 29: Is there really such a thing as “clean coal?”
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Farmers practicing ‘no-till’ agriculture could get a boost if the US establishes a national cap-and-trade emissions market, according to the Kansas Farm Bureau’s director of natural resources.
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Coal-fired power plants are major contributors to our planet’s pollution problems. Even though fewer new plants are being built, limited progress is made on capturing and sequestering the carbon released.
At present, only a few million tons of CO2 are captured and stored annually. Recent MIT research suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 to 80% of 1990 levels by 2050 – the level most climate scientists now say is necessary to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.
Continue Reading Europeans Agree To Build Fifteen CO2 Capture And Storage Research Labs
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The Lake Amititlan Geothermal Project has become the first in Guatemala, and for plant builder and operator Ormat Technologies, to qualify for UN Clean Development Mechanism certified emission reduction credits.
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Co2stats.com. It’s a site which greens your visitors. How? You can put a widget on your site which tracks the number of visitors as well as the electricity that’s likely involved in powering your site (check out our widget on this blog). It then offsets the amount of carbon produced by being online. Co2stats.com has realistic numbers because it takes into account server usage, locations of your visitors, computer types, window and monitor sizes, local fuel mixes, download sizes and times. For the offsetting part, Co2stats adds up all the numbers it gathers every month and, based on the total, purchases Green-E certified Renewable Energy Certificates. These certificates are linked to Native Energy and Sustainable Travel International. As a Co2stats user you can check up on the number of certificates your website has generated every month. Regardless of where you’re hosted, you have the chance to get your site carbon neutral in a few mouseclicks.
Continue Reading How To Green Your Online Footprint
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The development of new coal fired power plants is not recommendable because burning coal produces massive carbon emissions. Yet governments around the world are investing in coal fired power plants non stop. Every week more than two coal powered plants go into operation. The controversy is reaching new heights in the UK, where the government is close to endorsing plans by the country’s largest polluter, energy company E-on, to build a plant in the Kent town Kingsnorth, without a strict agreement on the installation of carbon capturing technology.
Continue Reading The Rationale For Building New Coal Fired Power Plants
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So you run a business serious about reducing your carbon footprint and, having done everything that you can do by yourself, you’re now ready to seek the help of an outside consultant to make some operational changes. What should you be on the lookout for? And which consultancy is best suited to match your needs?Continue Reading Beware Of The Nonsense In Climate Change Business Consulting
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Interested in contributing to climate change mitigation and environmental conservation projects? The Nature Conservancy is offering individuals the chance to help fund its Tensas River Basin reforestation project in Louisiana’s Mississippi Delta region, the first in its voluntary carbon offset program.
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The following is a guest post by Jen Boynton:
So, you’ve decided to take some responsibility for your carbon footprint and buy some carbon offsets to account for all your unavoidable driving and flying emissions. Congratulations on taking some responsibility for the massive situation we call “the climate crisis” Now you are wondering, which retailers are the most reliable? And how do you tell? It’s a complicated world out there, but I hope to make things a bit easier for you by recommending a few sellers and projects that are better than most and telling you why.
Continue Reading Window Shopping for Carbon Offsets
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