The Environmental Audit Committee has slammed the aviation industry for a ‘diverse and generally unsatisfactory attitude’ towards their misuse of carbon offsets.
… The Ecologist | 23rd July 2007 News EAC Offsetting Offset Off-setting BA British … singled out British Airway’s attempts at offsetting as ‘risible’. Since including a link to offsetting company Climate Care into its …
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 …
Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.
… it mines . QMM has imposed a biodiversity offsetting programme on forests some 50km …
US environmental charity under fire for close links with controversial companies, including Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto and Shell
… with the Walt Disney Company on carbon offsetting , working with the media company to … 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 government will announce voluntary standards today to regulate carbon off-setting programmes - the schemes by which environmentally friendly projects such as planting trees are undertaken to 'off-set' the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
… Thursday to publish a standard for carbon offsetting, so that people will be able to tell whether the offsetting schemes they are using or thinking …
Continuing expansion of China has offset the reduction in carbon emissions in recession-hit western countries, according to data released by US
An atlas of pollution: The world in carbon dioxide emissions Fiona Harvey guardian environment correspondent | 31st January 2011 News Carbon Emissions Pollution World Climate Change carbpn1.jpg US …
The claims for biofuels make it seem truly a wonder crop. Mark Anslow separates the wheat from the chaff
Biofuels - facts and fiction Mark Anslow | 19th February 2007 News Biofuels Bio-fuels Ethanol Bio-diesel Refinery Oil Transport Energy Crops Industrial Bio-fuels Green Living Climate Change Energy …
The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests it could be even uglier than we feared...
Food riots will mark the end of oil Dan Box | 23rd November 2009 Comment Energy Peak Oil Oil Money Food And Farming danboxcomment.jpg The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report …
Coalition of environmental groups including RSPB and the National Trust urge government to introduce a levy on chemical industry and enforce bigger fines for polluters
Pesticide companies told to fund clean up of waterways Tom Levitt | 10th November 2010 News Water Pesticides Pollution Waterways Chemical Industry Health rivertrent.jpg Crop protection industry …
Pollution is the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death, a Lancet Planetary Health report warns.
Pollution kills nine million people Emily Beament | 18th May 2022 | News Lancet Planetary Health Pollution air-pollution_78335-5.jpg Pollution is the world’s largest environmental risk factor for …
The European Union's carbon market, the EU ETS, is meant to cut pollution in a cost effective way. But a new report shows that it handed the EU's biggest emitters a €24bn bumper payout over six years. Not so much the 'polluter pays' principle but the precise opposite: people pay, and polluters profit.
Europe's biggest polluters land €24 billion carbon windfall The Ecologist | 17th March 2016 News EU Pollution Climate Change Emissions Corporations 7947187334_7b3b42295c_o.jpg The European Union's …
Shell's senior management are treading an impossible path, writes Steffen Böhm. On the one hand they accept that climate change is real and serious, and that many of their fossil fuel assets may prove unburnable. On the other, they insist that business as usual will continue for decades to come. It's high time they smelt the coffee!
The world won't let Shell wait until 2050 to adapt its business to climate change Steffen Böhm | 27th May 2015 Comment Corporations Oil Energy Climate Change shell-kayaks-cut.jpg Shell's senior …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
Deadly toll of fossil fuel pollution: the old economy versus planet and people Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 6th April 2017 Activism Economics Future Climate Change Pollution Health …
Should it be Heathrow or Gatwick? The answer, writes Keith Taylor, is neither. For climate and pollution reasons alone the UK should be scaling back on aviation, and in any case projections of future demand have been monstrously exaggerated. Step 1: a 'frequent flyer' tax on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.
… but on weak energy efficiency and dubious 'offsetting targets', that won't be mandatory …
The renewable power boom is excellent news for people and planet, writes Pete Dolack. But let's not get carried away: much energy that claims to be 'renewable; like biomass and big hydro, is no such thing. And greening our energy is just one of many steps to a sustainable world. The greatest challenges - like tackling the monster of infinite 'growth' - all lie ahead.
… ultimately lead to lower costs, more than offsetting the investments in renewable-energy …
The ever-falling cost of renewable energy could leave investors in coal, gas and oil seriously out of pocket as demand for fossil fuels falls away, writes Paul Brown. In the wake of the Paris Agreement and shrinking markets in major importing countries, the smart money is moving into renewables.
Fossil fuels a bad bet due to market changes, investors warned Paul Brown | 16th February 2016 News Fossil Fuels Renewables Oil Gas Coal Solar Wind Energy 6401946349_0f1471ca20_o.jpg The ever-falling …
A study in Torbay is the first time i-Tree software has been used in the UK to establish the true value of the 'urban forest' and raises questions over the effectiveness of smaller trees in absorbing carbon and pollutants
Do smaller trees play any real role in tackling carbon and pollution? Chris Baker | 11th April 2011 News Tress I-Tree Carbon Dioxide Pollution Climate Change Natural World News treesleaves.jpg The …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
GM trees in US Claire Robinson | 1st November 2007 News Gm Trees US Anne Petermann Global Justice Ecology Project US Gm Products US Gm Products Green Living Natural World Politics And Economics …
Fair taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters could have raised up to £23bn last year to combat the climate crisis – Oxfam
Tax the rich, says Oxfam Brendan Montague | 18th September 2023 | News Economics Oxfam Pollution UK Government Editor’s Picks leadership_jimratcliffe.jpeg Fair taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters …
The whole idea of North Sea oil was to make Britain rich, writes Simon Evans. At least that's how it all began. But now ... it cost UK taxpayers a massive £396 million a year in tax breaks and subsidies to keep the industry alive last year. And there's no reason to think that's going to turn around any time soon.
North Sea oil industry cost UK taxpayers £400m last year, and counting Simon Evans Carbon Brief | 5th April 2017 News Energy Oil Climate Change Finance UK Scotland graph-1.png The whole idea of North …
We’re 55 million years too late for hydraulic fracturing to work in the UK, claims Professor John Underhill, the chief scientist at Heriot-Watt University. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Geology in Britain cannot support fracking for oil and gas, expert claims Brendan Montague | 17th August 2017 News Fracking Climate Change Oil Gas Energy 24922672785_dd2bd3d601_b.jpg We’re 55 million …