The management systems community
13th Nov 2009
Madlen King, LRQA’s Climate Change Manager and a leading EU ETS expert, answered the questions of aircraft operators and other members of the audience of the recent LRQA Business Assurance Webinar on EU ETS Aviation.
3rd Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
With the Copenhagen round less than three months away, it’s easy to forget that Kyoto – signed by 37 industrialised countries and the European Union — is nearing its 12th birthday. Its critics argue that few signatory nations will meet their binding five-year targets to reduce by 5% their county’s green house emissions by 2012 [...]
3rd Dec 2008
The Guardian reports that, tomorrow Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy and climate change, will meet with ministers in Brussels to finalise new EU legislation on climate and energy.
11th Sep 2008
APX and the Gold Standard Foundation are pleased to announce today that the Gold Standard Registry now includes more than 200 valid greenhouse gas reduction projects in various stages of approval representing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in over 30 countries. This dramatic growth — well ahead of expectations — represents a total potential [...]
9th May 2008
Corporate emissions reporting protocols should go further to link GHG emissions to corporate financial performance – concludes new Ethical Corporation Institute report.
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.
28th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
CNET NEWS.COM comments, ‘Carbon offsetting has had some pretty bad press in recent times, with critics questioning just how green or new some offsetting projects are. But with the new Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), launched in London last week, it’s hoped that carbon offsets will win back their credibility and be given a much sought-after framework.’
26th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
This smartplanet.com article talks about the potential the new VCS could have on the voluntary offset market.
19th Nov 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.
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