Disney avoids emission cuts by investing $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes criticised by campaigners, including projects soon to be banned in the EU
… Disney caught up in carbon offsetting controversy William McLennan | 7th April 2011 News Carbon Offsetting Carbon Trading Climate Change … cuts by investing $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes criticised by campaigners, …
Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better Adventures’ partnership with environmental charity, the Converging World, has produced an initiative that just might work
… Carbon offsetting version two: a greener way to … Living Green Living Carbon Offset Carbon Offsetting Emissions Travel Greenhouse Gas … Carbon Trading Energy beach-family.jpg Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better …
European observers say it is going to be as ‘big as the carbon market’, but is buying a licence to cause ecological damage a sound strategy? Tom Levitt investigates
… What is biodiversity offsetting and how would it work? Tom Levitt | … Wildlife Conservation Carbon Trading Offsetting tractor.jpg Developers could start … of those market instruments is biodiversity offsetting, or 'bio-compensation'. Quite …
UK emissions figures are ‘misleading’ and need to be recounted because they include offsets, according to a committee of MPs
UK emissions figures distorted by offsets, say MPs The Ecologist | 11th January 2010 News Climate Change Carbon Emissions Carbon Trading carbonemissions.jpg MPs have called for the UK's greenhouse …
Hidden away in the pages of UN-speak that make up the Paris Agreement are the makings of global carbon market in which a host of exotic emissions derivatives can be freely traded, writes Steffen Böhm. And it's all going to be a huge and expensive distraction from the real and urgent task of cutting emissions.
… expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange … 'carbon trading', 'carbon pricing', 'carbon offsetting' and 'carbon markets' don't appear … for a massive expansion of carbon trading and offsetting while setting some basic standards. …
In Uganda, as in the rest of the world, carbon trading is a controversial topic. But could the concept of fair trade carbon credits revolutionise the sector, or is it just a distraction from the bigger problems with carbon markets? Adam Corner investigates
… guilt-ridden holiday makers the option of offsetting their flights, the EU Emissions … NEWS ANALYSIS Disney caught up in carbon offsetting controversy Disney avoids emission … cuts by investing $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes criticised by campaigners, …
Carbon trading has a remarkable record of failure: rewarding polluters while causing no discernible reduction in global emissions. If the COP21 UN climate negotiations in Paris are to achieve anything of value, first they must ditch the false solution of carbon markets. And thanks to Pope Francis, the idea is firmly on the agenda.
… the various emissions trading and carbon offsetting schemes that leave decisions such … recently published in a special carbon offsetting edition of the journal Environment …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… to offset the impact of purchases. However, offsetting does not reduce emissions and may …
How the UN plans on making money from environmental refugees.
… Displaced Persons Climate Refugees Carbon Offsetting Editor’s Picks corno-dafrica.jpg … are multiple reasons why carbon credits and offsetting don’t work. We have no reliable way …
Exclusive film looks at allegations that a coal power project in central India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods
… The carbon con: the true cost of offsetting The Ecologist | 29th November 2011 …
Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed to reach agreement on emissions targets
… 25th January 2010 News Carbon Trading Carbon Offsetting Renewables Energy … Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed to …
The Environmental Investigation Agency's animated film highlighting how the global trade in carbon credits is open to abuse and exploitation...
… bill NEWS ANALYSIS Disney caught up in carbon offsetting controversy Disney avoids emission … cuts by investing $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes criticised by campaigners, …
The EU's system for trading carbon emissions has cost consumers dear, while delivering few carbon reductions. Reforms are urgently needed, write Luca Taschini & Josh Gregory, and first among these is to open the market up to public scrutiny.
Without transparency, Europe's carbon market reform will fail Luca Taschini Josh Gregory | 1st June 2014 Comment Climate Change EU Regulation Economics smokestack-glasgow-cut.jpg The EU's system for …
A UN panel similar to the one for climate change has been given the go-ahead by world leaders with an admission they had failed to heed scientific warnings about biodiversity loss
… study NEWS ANALYSIS What is biodiversity offsetting and how would it work? European …
Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign
What the carbon market did after Copenhagen: nothing Dan Box | 2nd February 2010 Comment Politics And Economics Carbon Trading Carbon Markets Climate Change danboxcomment.jpg Come 31st of January - …
For years the 'market mantra' has been to save forests by selling the carbon they embody, writes Chris Lang, harnessing the profit motive for the benefit of trees and climate. But it never worked, and now even former fans are admitting that REDD is just another failed conservation fad. So what next? How about asking local communities to manage their forests as commons?
REDD is dead. So now, how are we going to save the world's forests? Chris Lang | 11th February 2016 Comment Forests Conservation Climate Change Carbon Economics logging road in east kalimantan - …
The most significant feature of COP21 is the topics that never even made it onto the agenda for discussion, writes Steffen Böhm. And the biggest of all the growth-driven economic system that ultimately thwarts all efforts at sustainability, as it drives ever increasing consumption of energy and resources.
… to outsource their responsibilities. Carbon offsetting will see an unprecedented growth in …
The main engine of economic exploitation is the financial system's ever increasing extraction of value through interest payments, according to economist Michael Hudson. Paul Craig Roberts finds his analysis all too accurate, as the over-financialized economies of western countries head down a spiral of poverty, decline, injustice and despair.
'Killing the Host': the financial system is destroying the global economy Paul Craig Roberts | 12th February 2016 Reviews Economics Finance Society Books killing-the-host-cut.jpg The main engine of …