Carbon labelling, confused?
13th Mar 2008
To help shoppers make green choices, companies are slapping carbon labels on products. But even if the public can interpret the information, will it help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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New report helps make sense of the voluntary carbon offset market
13th Mar 2008
The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.
Green-e Climate certifying carbon offsets
28th Feb 2008
The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation’s first independent certification for carbon offset products.
World emissions protocol on way
25th Feb 2008
Only months after releasing its Voluntary Carbon Standard for carbon offsets, The Climate Group has revealed that it will soon begin work on a guide for auditors to follow when calculating the carbon footprint of business and households.
Cheat sheet: Carbon offsetting quality mark
21st Feb 2008
BusinessGreen takes a closer look at the government’s controversial attempts to clean up the carbon offset market.
Alcoa Joins California Climate Registry
18th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
Alcoa is the latest organisation to sign up for the California Climate Registry (CCR), making their carbon emissions available to the public.
The CCR is awarding founding reporter status to companies that sign up to the scheme before May 2008, as an incentive for early membership.
Companies that sign up commit to voluntarily measure, independently verify and publicly report their industrial gas emissions.
The CCR’s Gary Gero is interviewed in this Voluntary Carbon Standard podcast.
Voluntary Carbon Standard interview on Climatechangecorp.com
7th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
LRQA’s Dr Anne Marie Warris was interviewed by the leading climate change website. She talks about some of the key issues facing the voluntary carbon market and how the VCS is uniquely positioned to offer the voluntary market credibility.
Carbon, a new asset class?
12th Dec 2007
Investors are already testing the potential of markets in greenhouse gas emissions, but what are the risks and how can they be avoided?
by Charles Longden, December 3rd, 2007.
Voluntary Carbon Standard to give offsetting green cred
26th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
This smartplanet.com article talks about the potential the new VCS could have on the voluntary offset market.
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