Carbon Offsets Daily

Ysgol Bro Dewi pupils help St Davids pub’s carbon footprint

Krithi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:26 +0000

| Sourced From Westerntelegraph.co.uk | A St Davids pub is going green-fingered to reduce its carbon footprint — and has enlisted a primary school to pitch in on the patch. The Grove, in High Street, is taking to the trowel and planting vegetables, herbs and flowers in its garden and has handed over part of it to [...]

Sabic goes carbon neutral

Krithi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:00:04 +0000

| Sourced From Berkshireeagle.com | PITTSFIELD — Sabic Innovative Plastics and Motorola have combined to develop a new polycarbonate resin that the electronics company hasused to develop the world’s first certified carbon neutral device. The product is a new mobile phone that is made from an eco-engineered resin developed by Sabic of which 25 percent contains material [...]

All public sector vehicles to be low carbon by 2020

Krithi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:00:44 +0000

| Sourced From Localgov.co.uk | The Scottish Government has proposed converting all public sector vehicles to low carbon by 2020. The plans are included in a consultation announced this week to widen the use of low-carbon vehicles in Scotland, as part of transport’s contribution to reduce emissions. It also calls for 95% of all new vehicles to be [...]

China, India in Opposition to Proposed US Carbon Tariffs

Krithi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:09 +0000

| Sourced From Redorbit.com | China has been outspoken in its concern over possible carbon tariffs being imposed on exports, stating that the move would represent a breach of guidelines put in place by the World Trade Organization. Yao Jian, spokesman of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC), told Xinhua that the proposals “would seriously hurt the interests [...]

Sony Ericsson makes ‘green’ handsets with lower carbon footprints

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

| Sourced From Mobiletoday.co.uk | The manufacturer intends to make a series of green improvements to all its phones. Sony Ericsson has unveiled two ‘green’ handsets with carbon footprints that are 15% lower than current models. The two phones, the C901 GreenHeart (pictured, near right) and the Naite (pictured, far right), will form part of a revised portfolio [...]

Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:00:11 +0000

| Sourced From Theecologist.org | A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions every year How to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back in the ground? Although the Government might like its big-ticket solutions such as [...]

EU calls on China and India to reduce CO2 emissions

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:00:22 +0000

| Sourced From Lowcarboneconomy.com | China and India must lead the world’s most rapidly developing economies in cutting their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions if there is to be any chance of a global pact on climate change, it has been warned. According to the Associated Press (AP), a climate change expert has claimed that cuts from the [...]

No CO2 problem if everyone plants a tree

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:00:09 +0000

| Sourced From Morningsentinel.mainetoday.com | In my estimation, few members of Congress can think logically, inductively and deductively and come to a logical conclusion. For example: global warming. Why is it during the past 50 years the sun has been very active with large amounts of magnetic storms on its surface? It is true that Earth’s temperature [...]

Hydrogen City Car Hits 300mpg and 30g/km CO2

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:00:05 +0000

| Sourced From Worldchanging.com | Open source’, locally manufactured fuel cell car designed for sharing. With politicians and carmakers waxing lyrical about electric vehicles, the squat hydrogen fuel cell car with a top speed of 50mph introduced by start-up Riversimple in June is definitely bucking prevailing trends. But what the Urban lacks in pzazz, it makes up in [...]

World’s Largest Cement Firms Slow CO2 Emissions Despite Production Growth

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:00:36 +0000

| Sourced From Greenbiz.com | GENEVA, CH — Efforts by the world’s leading cement companies knocked down carbon dioxide emissions from the industry’s manufacturing process by 35 percent even while production climbed by 53 percent, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Cement Sustainability Initiative. The council’s Cement Sustainability Initiative released the findings in its [...]

U.S. vote boosts hopes for Australia carbon laws

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:00:26 +0000

| Sourced From Thecarbonshow.com | SINGAPORE/CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia’s emissions trading laws look more likely to pass a hostile Senate after U.S. Congressional support for a similar climate bill eroded political opposition in Australia to carbon trading. Analysts said the passing of the Clean Energy and Security Act by the U.S. lower house on Friday has forced [...]

Brazil wants CO2 cuts based on historic emissions

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:00:49 +0000

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil wants historic emissions to be the basis for greenhouse gas pollution targets, slated for discussion during December climate talks in Copenhagen, Brazil’s top climate negotiator said in an interview. Continue Reading on Retuers

Electric vehicle makers see revenue potential in carbon credits

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:00:48 +0000

| Sourced From Business LIne | Mumbai, June 30 Armed with their zero-emission claims, makers of electric vehicles are trying for carbon credits. Manufacturers of electric vehicles see considerable revenue potential as well as brand building prospects in attaining carbon credits, though the sector is at a nascent stage in India. At least three electric scooter makers – [...]

UK launches new green standard to help business reduce carbon

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:00:07 +0000

| Sourced From Clickgreen.org.uk | The British Standards Institution (BSI) has published a new environmental standard that could help firms reduce their greenhouse house emissions and energy costs. The BS EN 16001 shows organizations how to establish the systems and processes necessary to improve energy efficiency across their operations. Findings of a recent BSI survey show that the [...]

New Earthscan Book Shows Carbon Markets Are Set to Treble in Size over the Next 3 Years

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:49 +0000

| Sourced From Businesswire.com | LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Despite the global value of carbon markets falling from €92 billion in 2008 to an estimated €63 billion in 2009, volumes of carbon credits continue to rise with carbon markets expected to treble in size by 2012. Evidence in the new Earthscan book Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide, suggests [...]

Wolmer measures relative carbon footprints of growing varieties of apples

Krithi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:00:29 +0000

| Sourced From Hortweek.com | A grower hailed as a sector champion for fighting climate change is to reveal how he managed to compare the carbon footprints of producing different varieties of a type of fruit. William Wolmer looked at the carbon footprint of managing Gala apple orchards and fields of Cox’s apples at Blackmoor Estate. The Hampshire-based [...]

UK lagging in progress to low-carbon economy

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:12 +0000

| Sourced From Bdaily.info | Uncertainty about future policy directions is preventing companies from making major investments in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. That’s the message from the CBI, who say that little progress has been made in speeding up the planning process over the last six months. This is preventing businesses from investing in new low-carbon [...]

Carbon Trust: Green power could generate £70 billion for UK economy

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:00:21 +0000

| Sourced From 24dash.com | Embracing wind and wave power could generate up to £70 billion for the UK economy, a report released today claims. New analysis from the Carbon Trust outlines the economic benefits of new technologies, saying almost 250,000 jobs could be generated by offshore wind and wave power alone. In the first of a series [...]

Rolling Stone exposes Goldman Sachs and the carbon credit scam

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:00:54 +0000

| Sourced From Examiner.com | This post has one purpose and one only – to convince you to follow the link below and read a powerful, eye-opening expose. Even Michael Savage spent an hour on it this week. No, the artitcle not in a conservative journal like the National Review. It’s from the left-leaning, anti-establishment “Rolling [...]

SCENARIOS-Possible outcomes for Australian carbon trade laws

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:00:47 +0000

CANBERRA, July 2 (Reuters) - The passage of landmark climate legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives, and a series of bad polls for Australia’s opposition, have raised hopes Australia might pass its carbon trade plans through parliament. Continue Reading on Reuters

Swedish PM to focus on CO2 emissions as EU president

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:00:34 +0000

| Sourced From Lowcarboneconomy.com | Fredrik Reinfeldt will serve as EU president for the next six months and has pledged to make a breakthrough at the upcoming UN summit on global warming. Sweden’s prime minister said that climate change is the most important global challenge facing this generation. The Scandinavian country has set a high standard on emissions [...]

Ford’s scrappage scheme saves 8,700 tonnes of CO2

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:00:07 +0000

| Sourced From Fleetdirectory.co.uk | Ford dealers have taken over 12,000 orders for new cars under the Government’s scrappage scheme – rising by about 300 a day. More than 75 per cent of Ford’s ’scrappage’ orders are for its small car range, with over 47 per cent of the 12,000 new Fords replacing blue oval-branded vehicles aged [...]

Is it hutzpah or hot air? CSX’s CO2 goal could be a difficult goal!

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:36 +0000

| Sourced From Glgroup.com | Implications CSX announced that it will reduce CO2 emissions per revenue ton-mile by 8% by 2011; a neat trick considering its fuel efficiency as measured in revenue ton-miles per gallon fell by 2% from last year’s average efficiency during the first quarter and is expected to fall even more in the second [...]

Car Industry Committed to Further CO2 Reductions

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:23 +0000

| Sourced From Theautochannel.com | CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – July 2, 2009: The peak body representing the Australian automotive industry, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), supports the COAG decision to conduct an evaluation of options to lower carbon emissions from vehicles. “The automotive industry is committed to reducing vehicle emissions and increasing fuel efficiency,” FCAI Chief [...]

EU CO2 Traders Buy Record Puts, Send Bearish Signal (Update1)

Krithi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:26 +0000

| Sourced From Bloomberg.com | July 2 (Bloomberg) — European Union carbon traders bought a record amount of put options last month to protect themselves against declining prices for emission allowances. They purchased put options on a record 24.2 million metric tons of EU carbon dioxide allowances, according to data compiled for Bloomberg by the European Climate [...]