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Breaking the Bank
World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report |
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11 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:48 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Carbon-offset dealings by the World Bank have been criticized (and not for the first time) in a report released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies. In the past two years, the report charges, the bank has loaned $1.5 billion to fossil-fuel companies to make minor greenhouse-gas reductions. It then sells carbon credits for those reductions, says coauthor Daphne Wysham, " ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Climos Def
New company wants to seed ocean with iron to sequester carbon |
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05 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:24 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Weeks after ocean-seeding company Planktos bit the iron dust, a startup called Climos is plowing ahead with a similar business plan: seed the ocean with iron dust to stimulate the growth of CO2-gobbling plankton, then sell offsets for the sequestered carbon. Climos has announced $3.5 million in venture capital and is backed by reputable investors: Tesla Chair (née Pay-Pal cofounder) Elon Mu ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Strike While the Iron Is ... Whoops, Too Late
Plan to combat warming by seeding ocean with iron runs out of funds |
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14 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:26 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Planktos, the company that proposed fending off global warming by seeding the ocean with iron dust, has failed to get enough funding to go forward with planned tests. Under the Planktos business plan, iron fertilization would encourage phytoplankton blooms, which would suck up extra CO2, allowing the company to sell carbon offsets. But it was not to ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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To Market, to Market, to Buy a Carbon Offset
Groups announce voluntary carbon standard for offset market |
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19 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:39 PM on 19 Nov 2007 In an attempt to rebut accusations that buying and selling carbon offsets amounts to a whole lotta nothin', a coalition of three groups has announced new voluntary standards for the international offset market. The standard attempts to verify that money spent on carbon offsets goes directly to a project that does indeed help the climate. Says Mark Kenber of L ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, news (all these topics) |
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Why Do I Still Feel So Hollow?
GE unveils carbon-offset credit card, other companies pondering same move |
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25 Jul 2007 |
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| Why Do I Still Feel So Hollow? GE unveils carbon-offset credit card, other companies pondering same move Some people say you can't shop your way to happiness, but they haven't met the new GE credit card. Yes, the company that brought us "ecomagination" has imagined a way into wallets everywhere. The GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard -- hang on, have to take a belly-laugh ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, green living, news, shopping (all these topics) |
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