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South Pole Carbon Named As Best Project Developer In Environmental Finance – PRLog.Org (press release)

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South Pole Carbon Named As Best Project Developer In Environmental Finance
PRLog.Org (press release)
Environmental Finance defines 'voluntary carbon' as carbon credits bought or sold to help organizations or individuals offset carbon emissions where they are not required by regulation to do so. This may be to help meet self-imposed emissions goals, ...

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FTSE 100 Firms Offset 0.1% of Carbon – Environmental Leader

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FTSE 100 Firms Offset 0.1% of Carbon
Environmental Leader
Around half of the companies reported using third-party standards, and firms said that just under two thirds of their credits are verified. Carbon Retirement said this level is low, given that 90 percent of all voluntary offsets transacted globally in ...
FTSE 100 companies' emissions offsetting is 'pitifully low': reportChina Post

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Taiwan readies for carbon trade scheme – Taiwan Today

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Taiwan readies for carbon trade scheme
Taiwan Today
“With EPA permission, account holders are also allowed to purchase carbon credits from foreign firms to offset their own emissions.” As the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act has been pending legislative approval since 2007, the EPA has taken the initiative ...
EDITORIAL: Supremes open to greenwashingWashington Times

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FTSE 100 firms’ CO2 offsetting ‘pitifully low’-report – Reuters Africa

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FTSE 100 firms' CO2 offsetting 'pitifully low'-report
Reuters Africa
The global $186 million voluntary carbon market relies on businesses and individuals to self-regulate their emissions by buying offsets in the absence of a global climate pact. For example, firms buy carbon credits from clean energy projects to offset ...

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WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING – CITY A.M.

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WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING
CITY A.M.
Investors in the fast-developing market for carbon credits will for the first time be able to buy insurance to protect them from the political uncertainty that underwriters believe has held back emissions trading in Europe. ...

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Dominican Republic cement plants ready to access carbon credits – Dominican Today

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Dominican Republic cement plants ready to access carbon credits
Dominican Today
The official, who headed a workshop on greenhouse gas emissions, spurred the cement plants to access carbon credits and to take actions such as changing to less pollutant fuels. Council member Moisés Alvarez also affirmed that the cement makers can ...

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Investing in forests could save the world – MarketWatch

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Investing in forests could save the world
MarketWatch
By purchasing carbon credits, investors can participate in myriad carbon-trading schemes. They can hold the carbon credit for themselves, feeling good about “offsetting” their own carbon emissions, say by driving or flying. Or they could trade their ...

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State implements pilot emission trading scheme – Times of India

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State implements pilot emission trading scheme
Times of India
It is like the carbon credit mechanism used globally, and a self-regulation method for units to reduce emissions," environment secretary Valsa Nair Singh told TOI. The ETS, also known as cap and trade, may work from both regulatory and economic ...
Better carbon tax laws neededScienceAlert
EC CO2 data shows that EU carbon trading is working: analystsPlatts
Free ETS advice for local farmersManawatu Standard

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Gas giants seek carbon tax breaks – The Australian

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Gas giants seek carbon tax breaks
The Australian
Other industry leaders told the government's business roundtable talks on Friday that the previous basis for providing LNG producers free carbon credits for 66 per cent of their emissions was completely out of date. Some representatives of Australia's ...
Divided over Gillard's carbon priceHerald Sun

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School district had to buy carbon credits – Northern Sentinel

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School district had to buy carbon credits
Northern Sentinel
By Staff Writer - Kitimat Northern Sentinel For first time the Coast Mountains school district has purchased carbon offsets as part of the province's move towards lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Alanna Cameron, secretary-treasurer for the district, ...
The Carbon Farming Initiative bills introduced into ParliamentLexology (registration)

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