Carbon Emission Offsetting

Post by **planeta** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:05 am

Does Carbon Emission Offsetting work?

Post by **planeta** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:18 am

ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB -- The following websites feature information pro and con about carbon offsetting

CON

The carbon shop: planting new problems - Larry Lohmann/World Rainforest
Movement
http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/mater ... n.html#fix

Sinkwatch
http://www.sinkswatch.org

Publications - Sinkswatch
http://www.sinkswatch.org/pubs.html

Transnational Institute
http://www.tni.org

Carbon Trade Watch - Transnational Institute
http://www.tni.org/ctw

PRO

My Climate
http://www.my-climate.com

Survey - My Climate
http://www.my-climate.com/anavosti.pdf

HARD TO CLASSIFY

Carbon Neutral Meeting
http://www.unep.org/dpdl/civil_society/ ... eutral.asp

PLANETA REFERENCE

Environmental Impact of Transportation Conference
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/t ... ation.html

Post by **planeta** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:54 pm

twburford · Post by **twburford** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:02 am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange ... 79,00.html
The scam of global warming is that we pay others for our complacency
The most destructive effect of the carbon offset trade is that it allows us to believe we can carry on polluting
George Monbiot January 17, 2006 The Guardian

Post by **planeta** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:33 am

Recommended listening

Five Live Report - Trading Trees (45 min)
Sun 29 Oct - 11:10
Is the carbon offsetting industry helping the environment?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks ... ding_trees

Everyone from holidaymakers, to big corporations and celebrities like Coldplay are paying money for new trees to be planted to make up for the pollution they are causing. Carbon offsetting as its known has become big business in the UK with even the government preparing to pay millions of pounds of taxpayers money to these schemes. Reporter Matthew Chapman investigates allegations that the offsetting industry is doing little to help the environment while allowing some polluting companies to clean up their image.

Post by **planeta** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:49 am

Carbon Offset - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset

Conned - New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org/issues/2006/07/01/

Post by **planeta** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:53 pm

FYI - The Carbon Emissions Offsetting topic is now archived within the Climate Forum branch on the Planeta Forum
http://forum.planeta.com/viewforum.php?f=91

Post by **planeta** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:00 pm

Carbon offsetting: who to trust? - Richard Hammond/Times Online
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif ... 425710.ece

[quote]Carbon offsetting companies came in for a drubbing in January when the government announced that only four of the UK

Post by **planeta** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:29 pm

Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green? - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/weeki ... evkin.html

[quote]As long as the use of fossil fuels keeps climbing

Post by **planeta** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:30 pm

Environment groups call for carbon offset regulation - The World Today
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/conten ... 932288.htm

Planting trees to offset greenhouse gas emissions is becoming increasingly popular in Australia and the carbon-offset industry is burgeoning. But an environment group says companies that offer to plant trees for consumers to help them offset their carbon footprint need to be regulated.

Post by **planeta** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:50 pm

More from the creators of Cheat Neutral
http://www.cheatneutral.com

Children of the revolution - Western Mail
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news ... _page.html

Jun 23 2007

They

Post by **planeta** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:20 am

Irresponsible Tourism: Carbon Offset
http://www.irresponsibletourism.info/fo ... .asp?FID=2

Discuss carbon offsetting and carbon sequestration, is it a sham?

Post by **planeta** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:14 am

Firms warned offsetting does "more harm than good"
http://www.businessgreen.com/2007/08/fi ... ed-of.html

A leading scientist with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has warned that "doing nothing is better than offsetting" on the grounds that there is a serious risk that the practice is leading to increased emissions.

Dr Kevin Anderson, an academic at the University of Manchester and energy programme leader for the Tyndall Centre, said that the failure by many offset firms to look at the wider implications of investing in carbon reduction projects in developing economies meant that they were guilty of inadvertently increasing carbon emissions.

Post by **planeta** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:49 am

Costa Rica claims first zero emissions airline - Leo Hickman
http://leohickman.wordpress.com/2008/01 ... s-airline/

[quote]I didn

Post by **planeta** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:50 am

Carbon offset schemes under question - Bush Telegraph 26/02/2008
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/c ... 172824.htm
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/ ... 080226.mp3

Related

Carbon Offset Guide Australia
http://www.carbonoffsetguide.com.au

Planeta Forum

Carbon Emission Offsetting

Carbon Emission Offsetting

Elsewhere on the Web

Green-Travel Discussion

Five Live Report - Trading Trees

recommended reading

Administrative note

Carbon offsetting: who to trust?

NTY

Carbon Chaos

Cheat Neutral Update

Elsewhere on the Web

businessgreen.com

Costa Rica

Bush Telegraph