Showing posts with label carbontrading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carbontrading. Show all posts
04 May 2012
16 April 2012
Pure-play carbon credit companies in crisis
The crash in carbon credit prices globally has served a crushing blow to companies operating in this space in India. Firms, whose business models were based purely on profit from sale of carbon credits, have either closed down or substantially downsized their operations
Namrata Singh | The Times of India | Apr 16, 201
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The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets
Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too
Nature | 04 April 2012
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As Norway funds rainforest conservation, its pension fund invests in companies driving deforestation
At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its pension fund in dozens of companies linked to deforestation, alleges a new report from Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway
mongabay.com | March 30, 2012
28 March 2012
“REDD is just a project that the industrial countries use to try to keep their economic benefits”
Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina and Elisha Kartini,Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI – Indonesian Farmers Union) at SPI’s office, Jakarta, February 2012
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 27th March 2012
A Clearer Picture of Tropical Carbon
Tropical forests, alongside boreal forests and wetlands, are prime ecosystems for storing carbon. Now, researchers have created a new high-resolution map of carbon storage in tropical forests that could play an important role in effective forest management
By DYLAN WALSH | The New York Times | March 27, 2012
Woods Hole Research CenterAbove-ground biomass in southern Asia and Oceania, based on data gathered by laser satellite technology. Dark green indicates the highest potential for carbon storage.
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17 March 2012
New research suggests cap and trade programs do not provide sufficient incentives for innovation
Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory| EurekaAlert | 15-Mar-2012
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Celestial Green Ventures: 20 million hectares of REDD carbon offset projects in Brazil
Celestial Green Ventures is a carbon trading company based in Dublin, Ireland. In November 2011, the company claimed to have “the carbon credit rights to an area of land in excess of 20 million hectares of vulnerable rainforest in the Amazon region of Brazil.” That makes it one of the biggest REDD companies in the world. Not bad for a 15-month-old company
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 13th March 2012
10 March 2012
Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
With its muddy roads, humble huts, and constant military patrols, Bajo Aguán, Honduras feels a long way away from the slick polish of the recurring UN climate negotiations in the world’s capital cities. Yet the bloody struggle going on there strikes at the heart of global climate politics, illustrating how market schemes designed to “offset” carbon emissions play out when they encounter the complicated reality on the ground
By Rosie Wong | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 9, 2012
06 March 2012
World Bank Says Carbon Fund May Shrink Following Price Slump
A World Bank Group unit says its fund for investing in carbon projects that generate emissions credits after 2012, when the first commitment period of the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol ends, will probably shrink
By Catherine Airlie and Mathew Carr | Bloomberg | Mar 5, 2012
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Breathing difficulties: A market in need of a miracle
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), the world’s biggest carbon market, has two main aims. One is to restrict the carbon-dioxide emissions of the 11,000 companies trading on it to an agreed cap. The other is to give these firms an incentive to invest in clean technology
The Economist | Mar 3rd 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentKorea to Plant Trees in Indonesia for Carbon Emission Credits
Korea plans to receive 100 million tons of carbon emission credits over the next decade in return for planting trees on a 200,000-hectare plot of land in Indonesia. That amount of credits would normally cost W2.2 trillion (US$1=W1,116), or $20 per ton, but Korea will save more than W1 trillion through the tree-planting deal
The Chosunilbo | March 5, 2012
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REDD under the spotlight – Can ‘Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ deliver real benefits for the climate and for rural communities?
In this article, Wally Menne of the Timberwatch Coalition in South Africa asks whether REDD can really help address climate change and whether it can bring genuine benefits for rural communities. The article was first published in Drynet News, in February 2012
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 22nd February 2012
19 February 2012
Forest waste plan slammed
A plan to make native forest waste eligible for renewable energy credits has angered the North Coast Environment Council
ABC North Coast NSW | 14 February, 2012
The North Coast Environment Council is fearful of the potential consequences of a new plan to deal with forest waste (Stateline Victoria)
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03 February 2012
CIFOR Newsletter Deconstructs COP 17 for Forests
The latest newsletter of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) provides an assessment of the outcomes of the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluding that it delivered mixed results for forests
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 31 January 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentBUY OR SELL-Is there still a market for U.N. carbon permits?
U.N.-backed carbon permits were among the worst performing commodities in 2011 and trading volume fell more than 35 percent in January this year from December as the benchmark contract became very illiquid, renewing concerns about lack of demand
By Nina Chestney | Reuters Africa | Feb 2, 2012
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Indigenous communities in Peru condemn the further adventures of an Australian carbon cowboy
In April 2011, the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP) published the Declaration of Iquitos which opposed the proposed forest carbon trading activities of a Hong Kong registered company called Sustainable Carbon Resources Limited
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 31st January 2012
31 January 2012
Can carbon finance protect forests and prevent climate change?
Some of our clients will remember that The CarbonNeutral Company started business in 1997 trading as Future Forests, and will know that our services have always recognised the central role played by ecosystems in maintaining a stable climate. Planting and protecting forests makes perfect sense because “trees suck up carbon dioxide and turn it into wood and oxygen”
By Jonathan Shopley | Eco-business | January 25th, 2012
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New video: “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests”
A new video by the Global Forest Coalition and the Global Justice Ecology Project is deeply critical of REDD. Much of the criticism focusses on carbon trading, but through interviews with communities in Chiapas, Mexico, the video illustrates the perverse impacts that REDD can have on the ground
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 25th January 2012
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
14 January 2012
Tanzania: Funding for Carbon Trading Projects Halted
Funding for a carbon trading system known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) has been suspended until further negotiations between poor countries and powerful industrial nations
Ludger Kasumuni | The Citizen (Dar es Salaam) in AllAfrica.com | 12 January 2012
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