India will urge its airlines to boycott the European Union’s carbon charge scheme, raising the prospect of a global trade war over a law requiring flights in and out of Europe to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. A senior Indian government official … Go to Source Read more »

Carbon credit aggregator CarbonSoft has partnered with Eureka Forbes Ltd to launch a powerful new carbon credit program in support of solar lamps and lighting in southern India.London, England (PRWEB UK) 7 March 2012 A pioneering new initiative has paired one of India’s most respected names in business with one of the world’s leading carbon [...] Read more »

India raises the stakes in a stand-off over EU Emissions Trading Scheme in place since January Go to Source Read more »

One of the biggest potential influences in forestry's future is the carbon credit regime. Go to Source Read more »

A Czech bid for almost €2 billion of free allowances under the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) – equal to almost half Prague’s 2012 budget deficit – has drawn heavy fire from Brussels and European environmentalists, who say it will do little to combat CO2 emissions.  More » Go to Source Read more »

Hawaiian Airlines has earned the first-ever aviation based carbon credits, having reduced its CO2 emissions by nearly 22,000 metric tons over the past six years using an  eco-friendly engine washing technology developed by Pratt & Whitney. Go to Source Read more »

Businesses along International Avenue could soon go green to generate a little green for the community. The area business-revitalization zone is hoping a feasibility study will help determine what kind of revenue generation could come from creating a carbon-credit zone.By assisting local businesses in reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions, executive director of the International Avenue BRZ [...] Read more »

Mark Belton said his company, Permanent Forests International, is on track to deliver 600,000 voluntary carbon credits, called PFSI VERs, to offshore buyers by the middle of the year. Go to Source Read more »

Carbon credit aggregator CarbonSoft has partnered with Eureka Forbes Ltd to launch a powerful new carbon credit program in support of solar lamps and lighting in southern India. A pioneering new initiative has paired one of India’s most respected names … Go to Source Read more »

Hawaiian Airlines has earned the first-ever aviation based carbon credits, having reduced its CO2 emissions by nearly 22,000 metric tons over the past six years using an eco-friendly engine washing technology developed by Pratt & Whitney. Go to Source Read more »

A Czech bid for almost €2 billion of free allowances under the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) – equal to almost half Prague’s 2012 budget deficit – has drawn heavy fire from Brussels and European environmentalists, who say it will do little … Go to Source Read more »

A Swiss company plans to help fund the provision of clean water to up to 4m Kenyans through an innovative carbon credit granted to a filter designed to cut infections and reduce deforestation. Vestergaard Frandsen, a Danish-founded company with … Go to Source Read more »

The farmers, faces wizened and browned from hours in the harsh Gujarati sun, lower a bucket into a well. It’s a solid-brick cylinder 100ft deep. The sun is high in the sky, beating down on the scorched earth. In the baked fields, maize and cotton have … Go to Source Read more »

And, according to the director of a global Carbon Credit brokerage headquartered in Dubai, UAE, one of the ways to achieve this is through the purchase of Voluntary Emissions Reduction credits. “As an example, there are over 10,000 super yachts worldwide … Go to Source Read more »

Operators flying in Europe can expect overall charges such as airspace and airport fees (including noise tariffs) to double when European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) costs are added in for transatlantic flights. According to a preliminary … Go to Source Read more »

The World Bank, acting as trustee for the United Nations Adaptation Fund, resumed sales of UN emission credits at the start of this month after the fund missed higher prices at the end of last year. The fund, with a secretariat based in … Go to Source Read more »

Sadly we’ve another piece bemoaning the fact that carbon credits, under the European Union’s cap and trade plan, are low. The point that low prices are a sign of the success of the plan, not a failure of it, seems to have escaped the people … Go to Source Read more »

Sadly we?ve another piece bemoaning the fact that carbon credits, under the European Union?s cap and trade plan, are low. The point that low prices are a sign of the success of the plan, not a failure of it, seems to have escaped the people advancing this argument. The piece is here at Der Spiegel. [...] Read more »

After carbon credit prices crashed to all time lows, many European buyers which had entered into forward contracts with Indian clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, are said to be going slow on their commitments. Go to Source Read more »

A carbon credit is a way to measure the reduction of industrial carbon dioxide emissions. One credit equals removing one ton of carbon dioxide. The airline says its credits have been certified by a leading independent standard for measuring and … Go to Source Read more »

Ronald W. Pickett, Chairman and CEO of Clean Wind Energy Tower, stated “We are pleased to engage GGVF to develop the Company’s carbon credit project as GGVF not only has the know-how and experience to develop the required Project Design Documents … Go to Source Read more »

MUMBAI: After carbon credit prices crashed to all time lows, many European buyers which had entered into forward contracts with Indian clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, are said to be going slow on their commitments. Most of these … Go to Source Read more »

This is an article from the Liberian press. It is not a report by AllAfrica. Following his biting Carbon Credit report nearly two years ago–a report that sent an array of senior government officials crawling for cover from presidential reprimand that … Go to Source Read more »

A carbon credit is a verified means of measuring the reduction of industrial CO2 emissions from the environment, with one credit equal to the removal of one ton of CO2. Hawaiian’s earning of carbon credits has been quantified and certified under the … Go to Source Read more »

Green Giant Venture Fund initial estimates, developed under the appropriate United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)/CDM Methodology and the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), reflect that CWET’s project will reduce 5.7 … Go to Source Read more »