Carbon Offsets

En G3: energia, sostenibilidad y tecnologia el 2008.05.08

If the world is going to truly combat greenhouse gas emissions, China and India have to be part of the fight, the chief economist for the Paris-based International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Fatih Birol told oil and gas executives at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston that the economies of China and India are growing at such a pace that they'll keep needing more energy, much of it from coal. Even if Europe cuts emissions by 20 percent in the next dozen years as pledged, it won't be enough to...

En Governance Focus el 2008.01.11

Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar plants and other projects to balance the emissions created by, say, using a laptop computer or flying on a jet. A Volkswagen program, offered in conjunction with Carbonfund.org, an intermediary, has sought to energize car sales. But where exactly is that money going? The Federal Trade Commission, which regulates advertising claims, raised the question Tuesday...

En EL PRIMER RATÓN EN LA LUNA os monitorea el 2007.12.11

Dicen que las caricaturas revelan el lado tonto de las cosas serias y el lado serio de las cosas tontas. Celebrando la premiación del mesías verde Al Gore, una pequeña recopilación de los editoons alusivos al acontecimiento: Una explicación concisa de su propuesta (negociazo) de los bonos de carbono (carbon offsets). Hacer click para verlo mejor: y para finalizar, alguien a quien jamás le concederían el premio porque no se dedicó a la política: Irena Sendler Tags: Al Gore Nobel Paz Irena Sendler cartoons...

En Sat Geek Zone el 2007.10.27

12 Full Size Backgrounds Xbox360 carbon blades Xbox360 Sounds Xbox360 IconsXbox Custom font with or without shadowsother stuff.... Credits SSChevy2001 building the theme Blackbolt Team for the xbmc skin SHIFT-Key for his HR vshmain offsets BStronga for the common_gui.prx M33 for the update_plugin.prx...

En The Temas Blog el 2007.09.20

TemasEtUnam Lonely Planet says that they do. LP is a publisher of popular travel guides and related travel services. In LP's most recent annual survey of travelers, covering 24,500 people worldwide, 93% said that they would consider environmentally-friendly travel in the future, a majority are worried about the carbon emissions from flying, and 79% would consider offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions in their future travel. A surprising number (43%) choose a more radical option than just carbon...

En Reino de la Musica Pop (Pop Music Kingdom) el 2007.07.13

Grammy-winning pop rock Maroon 5 performed a couple of songs from their new album from new album "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" today on The Sauce. For those who doesn't know, the "This Love" band has teamed up with climate change organisation Global Cool to achieve their environmental aims on the tour. Maroon 5 are donating $1 of every ticket sold for their upcoming North American tour to buy offsets to make the road show...

En Nacido en Bolivia el 2006.11.06

Picture: "Cielos bolivianos" By: Gery Moyano Articulo publicado en mongabay.com November 5, 2006 Bolivia could earn hundreds of millions of dollars through a global warming deal that may be proposed this week at climate talks between 189 countries in Nairobi, Kenya. At last year's negotiations in Montreal, a coalition of tropical developing countries lead by Papua New Guinea put forth an initiative whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions....