New report helps make sense of the voluntary carbon offset market
The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.
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Anne-Marie Warris introduces VCS 2007
Dr Anne-Marie Warris, who wrote VCS 2007, talks about the impacts it will have in the carbon offset market, and outlines its evolution over the last 18 months.
The YouTube! ISO14001 video
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
ISO 14000
ISO 14000 is a family of international management standards (includes ISO 14001) concerned with environmental management.
They encompass what an organisation does to minimise harmful environmental effects of its activities, and require continuous improvement of environmental performance.
Carbon Market Value has Tripled in 2006, Voluntary Market Needs Standards Development, Says World Bank Report
A report released by the World Bank yesterday at CarbonExpo in Germany announced that the global carbon offset market has tripled over the past year to $30bn. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme accounted for $25bn of this total.
ISO launches new greenhouse gas standard
The new standard, ISO 14065:2007, ‘Greenhouse gases - Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition’, complements the previous standard.
Sustainability and the 2012 Olympics
I attended a standards writing meeting this week - yawn you may say - but actually it was very interesting (in parts). The meeting was about a new standard BS8901 which is about Sustainable Events Management.
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