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What Is Carbon Credit?
C02 emissions trading can help lower the environmental cost of doing business – if you know how to navigate the booming $60 billion market. How It Works Emissions limits and trading rules vary country by country, so...
Tags: BNET Briefing, BP Plc, Cap-and-Trade Scheme, Carbon, Carbon Credit, Carbon Credits, Carbon Offsets, Emission, Emissions, Government, Jessica Stillman, Management, Offset, Strategy
Articles 2008-02-05
Why Your Company Should Already Be Trading Carbon Credits
Why Your Company Should Already Be Trading Carbon CreditsRE: Why Your Company Should Already Be Trading Carbon CreditsDon't listen to this garbage...carbon credits are a complete scam and so is man-made global warming!RE: Why Your Company Should Already Be Trading Carbon CreditsThis is an artificial solution to a possibly artificial...
Tags: Carbon Credits, global warming
Discussion threads 2008-09-18

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Why Your Company Should Already Be Trading Carbon Credits
US companies should be trading in overseas  carbon credit markets right now; not waiting for the idea to become law here. Why the hurry? By understanding carbon credit markets today, you will have a competitive advantage tomorrow as your competitors struggle to come up to speed after...
Tags: Carbon Credit, Rau, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-09-17
Energy Roundup: Google Buys Carbon Credits, Ba-bye to Oil and Gas Tax Breaks, Biofuels Subsidies Hit $400 Billion, and More
Google scoops up carbon credits in effort to offset emissions -- Google's effort "to do no evil" took a little longer than expected in the carbon credits arena. The search engine giant bought enough carbon credits to offset all of its emissions from 2007 and some from 2008. The company's...
Tags: Google Inc., Biofuel, Oil & Gas, Tax Break, Carbon Credit, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-05-07
State Senate backs `carbon credits' bill
A measure passed Thursday by an Oklahoma Senate committee will allow Oklahoma farms and other businesses to address the global warming problem by removing excess carbon from the atmosphere by trading in "carbon credits." Sen. Bruce Price, D-Hinton, Senate author of House Bill 1192, the "Oklahoma Carbon Sequestration...
Tags: carbon, Oklahoma, phone, Rep., Sen., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2001-03-23
Delhi to take a metro ride for carbon credits.
Byline: Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee Jan. 24--NEW DELHI -- After private companies, it is now the turn of the Delhi government to look at tapping the massive carbon credit opportunity. The Delhi government, has asked the World Bank to make a presentation to evaluate the...
Tags: environment, FINANCE, Government, SOFTWARE, World Bank
Research articles 2007-01-24
Natsource Recognized as World's Largest Purchaser of Carbon Credits by Leading Investor Research Firm
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Sharron Silvers of Gavin Anderson & Company, v +1-212- 515-1931, ssilvers@gavinanderson.com, for Natsource NEW YORK, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Natsource, a leading environmental asset manager, today announced it was named the largest buyer of contracted carbon credits by New Energy Finance in its annual survey...
Tags: Natsource LLC
Research articles 2008-03-06
Local Cooperatives May Serve to Sell Farmers' Carbon Credits.
By Bill Hord, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 15--LINCOLN, Neb.--Farmers who yearn to sell carbon credits will apparently have to go through a middleman, and that could someday be the local cooperative. "They already have a...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 2003-04-15
Blue Source, Goldman in "Largest Publicly Announced" Carbon Offset Deal
Carbon offset developer Blue Source announced the completion of the "largest publicly announced U.S. offset deal" (his description, reportedly): a $12 million carbon transaction between Blue Source and Goldman Sachs Group. The deal reportedly met Climate Action Reserve CAR and Voluntary Carbon Standard quality standards. It also included credits from...
Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Carbon
News items 2009-10-15
Carbon ETF Market Has Room to Grow
Don Dion submits: When President Barack Obama included a carbon cap-and-trade provision in his budget proposal, analysts and investors struggled with what to think and what to trade. Currently, two exchange-traded products are available to carbon investors: the iPath Global Carbon ETN GRN and the AirShares EU Carbon...
Tags: ETF, Don Dion
External links 2009-04-08
What Is Carbon Credit?
What Is Carbon Credit?Title is MisleadingI think the title misrepresents offsets. Offsets are not an indulgence to reduce or deflect your guilt. If they are used to "clear your carbon conscience", they are used inappropriatelyRather they should be incorporated as part of an organization's overall emission reduction strategy. The emphasis...
Tags: carbon
Discussion threads 2008-02-07
On the trail of Dell's carbon footprint
This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines.Dell has declared itself carbon-neutral, but good luck defining and auditing what that means exactly.Assembling PCs at Dell's Hortolandia, Brazil, facility.(Credit: Dell)The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story on Dell and its carbon-neutral efforts. In a nutshell:• There is no standard...
News items 2009-08-07
Vancouver's Renowned Wedgewood Joins Ranks of World's First Carbon Neutral Hotels
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Vancouver, British Columbia's award-winning Wedgewood Hotel and Spa has entered into an agreement with Planktos Inc. to purchase sufficient carbon credits to make the Wedgewood 'Carbon Neutral' and zero out all its CO2 emissions. Each Planktos carbon credit represents one tonne of CO2 that has been...
Tags: carbon credit
Research articles 2007-02-01
Pacific Hydro in world-first carbon trading deal.
Jun 06, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Pacific Hydro PacHydro has negotiated a carbon credit sale with a bank. In a world- first transaction, a PacHydro subsidiary will sell the certified emissions reduction credits from two hydro-electric projects in Fiji, the Wainikasou...
Tags: ABN AMRO, carbon
Research articles 2005-06-06
Stantec Teams With EcoSecurities to Manage Carbon Reduction Initiatives
Today Stantec (TSX: STN) (NYSE: SXC) announced it has entered into a relationship with EcoSecurities to provide clients with an integrated and comprehensive array of greenhouse gas management services, including verifying, registering, and selling carbon credits. EcoSecurities is a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon...
Tags: Stantec Inc.
Research articles 2007-11-05
Stantec Teams With EcoSecurities to Manage Carbon Reduction Initiatives.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, Nov 5, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Today Stantec (TSX:STN) (NYSE:SXC) announced it has entered into a relationship with EcoSecurities to provide clients with an integrated and comprehensive array of greenhouse gas management services, including verifying, registering, and selling carbon credits. EcoSecurities is a...
Tags: Stantec Inc.
Research articles 2007-11-05
Initiative to Pay Nebraska Farmers For 'Carbon Credits' Nears Reality.
By Bill Hord, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 15--LINCOLN, Neb.--This could be the year that farmers get paid to fight global warming by keeping carbon in the soil. Smokestack industries are prepared to offer money -- estimates ...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 2003-04-15
Fortis wins the first ever carbon auction in Brazil and acquires 808,000 carbon credits from the Sao Paulo government at Brazil auction
Fortis, global leader in the fast growing carbon market, announces its successful participation in the Brazilian Certified Emission Reductions CER auction - the first to be held on a regulated stock market. This underlines Fortis's commitment to support the functionality of the Kyoto Protocol framework, the market-based mechanism that...
Tags: auction, Fortis
Research articles 2007-09-27
Carbon Allowance Futures Commence U.S. Trading
Mike Havrilla submits: Click to enlarge: The exchange-based trading of carbon allowances in the US is underway over four months ahead of the official start of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative [RGGI], which covers 10 states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic that have pledged to reduce 2010 greenhouse gas emissions...
Tags: Energy
External links 2008-08-24
States warned on carbon exemption.
Byline: Amanda Hodge Jan 15, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian states have been warned about approaches from coal-fired power stations seeking exclusion from...
Tags: Origin Energy Ltd.
Research articles 2006-01-15
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