Like its competitors, Carbon Passport has a website with an online calculator that allows individuals and businesses to measure their emissions. Offsets can also be bought online. However, the firm sells only CERs – certified emission reductions. These are credits produced by carbon-saving projects – mostly in the developing world – regulated by the United [...]
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Sunday Herald, Australia – THE high-profile eco-friendly company Easy Being Green, which made a crusade out of installing energy-saving light bulbs, will fold up business in NSW today, laying off 150 staff and about 100 contractors following the crash in the NSW carbon market.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/its-not-easy-being-green/2007/09/13/1189276899626.html
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The Times, UK – Why are David Cameron’s Tories promising to punish the electorate in the cause of greenery? Governments do punishment, oppositions do mood music
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article2461239.ece
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New York Times, USA – IN the debate over global climate change, there is a yawning gap that needs to be bridged. The gap is not between environmentalists and industrialists, or between Democrats and Republicans. It is between policy wonks and political consultants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16view.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
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Link to carbon cycle graphic and other vital diagrams.
http://www.vitalgraphics.net/climate2.cfm?pageID=7#
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Financial Times, UK – Only three strategies adopted by hedge funds appear to have survived unscathed the rout of the sector last month, as the “absolute return” industry again mostly failed to protect investors against market turmoil.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f479b874-6477-11dc-90ea-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html
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(Mail & Guardian) Government has gone into the carbon trading business. The state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) has set up its own carbon trading operation.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=319296&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/
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