Buyers' guide to carbon offset providers
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- Offsetting Democracy. Smith, Kevin // Chain Reaction;Dec2008, Issue 104, p48
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- Untitled. // Aviation Week & Space Technology;5/4/2009, Vol. 170 Issue 18, p17
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- No idle warning�. Raleigh, Patrick // Process Engineering;Jul/Aug2011, Vol. 92 Issue 4, p8
The article reports on the concern over the emergence of government initiatives on taxation and carbon reduction across energy-intensive industries in Great Britain. It notes that several process industries have warned the government particularly on the uneconomical effect of the carbon price...
- ETS faults undermine the global low-carbon agenda. Wood, Janet // Utility Week;1/28/2011, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p12
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- Decarbonated Travel. Watson, Della // Sierra;Jul/Aug2008, Vol. 93 Issue 4, p78
The article discusses the ability of people who go on vacation to calculate and buy carbon offsets for their adventures. An offset is money paid to make up for - or offset - the carbon dioxide produced by one's journey, the article states. The carbon offset company NativeEnergy is described....
- Stanyer's carbon call to agents. // Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland;12/19/2008, Issue 2847, p18
The article focuses on the call of Holiday Taxis founder Paul Stanyer on travel agents to support the firm's carbon offsetting scheme in Great Britain. Stanyer notes that 46% of its direct customers took the chance to pay to offset their carbon emissions. He is convinced that more customers can...
- Sensible approach needed on reducing carbon. Ridout, Heather // Manufacturers' Monthly;Sep2009, p6
In this article, the author discusses the measures related to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in Australia. She considers the proliferation of overlapping/duplicating measures as public policy failure. For her, the emissions trading scheme's virtue is that the Government...
