carbon offsetting
Tags: CARBON offsetting; SUSTAINABLE development; INVESTMENTS; EMISSIONS (Air pollution); CARBON dioxide
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- Government resets own sustainability targets. // ENDS (Environmental Data Services);Apr2010, Issue 423, p46
The article reports that the British government has reset its internal sustainability goals. The new sustainable development in government targets will supplant the existing sustainability on the government estate framework. The goal for carbon dioxide reductions have been extended beyond office...
- BT calls for carbon-impact assessment. // Sustain' Magazine;2007, Vol. 8 Issue 6, p17
The article reports that Global Services, the sustainability practice formed by BT, has launched a service to help large corporations and public-sector organisations reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint in Great Britain. The company's carbon-impact assessment service enables...
- How to Blow Less Smoke. Zakaria, Fareed // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);9/22/2008, Vol. 152 Issue 13, p59
An interview is presented with Richard Sandor, founder of the U.S. carbon dioxide trading market the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). He states that the price of carbon increased when it became apparent that the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates were all interested in a cap-and-trade system. He...
- A low-carb life. Doble, Rae // Money (14446219);Oct2007, Issue 95, p30
The article offers information on carbon offset programs in Australia. Basically, carbon offset programs allow one to compensate for the carbon dioxide from flights, cars and the household energy one uses and released into the atmosphere. New South Wales' GGAS scheme was one of the first carbon...
- How to Blow Less Smoke. Zakaria, Fareed // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);9/22/2008, Vol. 152 Issue 12, p54
An interview is presented with Richard Sandor, founder of the U.S. carbon dioxide trading market the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). He states that the price of carbon increased when it became apparent that the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates were all interested in a cap-and-trade system. He...
- Chevy Launches Phony Save-The-Planet Campaign. MILLOY, STEVEN // Human Events;12/20/2010, Vol. 66 Issue 44, p18
The article discusses the Chevy Carbon-Reduction program of General Motors (GM) which aims to spend up to 40 million U.S. dollars from 2010-2015 offsetting about eight million metric tones of carbon dioxide. The author describes the program as a phony save-the-planet campaign, which is only...
- How to Blow Less Smoke. Zakaria, Fareed // Newsweek;9/15/2008, Vol. 152 Issue 11, p74
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- Decomposition of the environmental Kuznets curve: scale, technique, and composition effects. Tsurumi, Tetsuya; Managi, Shunsuke // Environmental Economics & Policy Studies;2010, Vol. 11 Issue 1-4, p19
This study decomposed the determinants of environmental quality into scale, technique, and composition effects. We applied a semiparametric method of generalized additive models, which enabled us to use flexible functional forms and include several independent variables in the model. The...
- Carbon Trading Market Creating Opportunities. Kentouris, Chris // Securities Industry News;6/22/2009, Vol. 21 Issue 14, p16
The article presents the new opportunities created by the continued growth in the global carbon trading market and the anticipated adoption of a U.S. climate control bill. TowerGroup research director Stephen Bruel states that the potential for carbon trading is great. But he also noted that...
