Green Resources: Investigative reports by the Oakland Institute and Swedish TV led to the Swedish Energy Agency freezing carbon credit purchases until Green Resources meets a series of demands.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
Larry Lohmann on time machines, REDD, and California
Larry Lohmann works with a small solidarity and research organisation called The Corner House. Over the years he’s written many articles about climate change and carbon trading.
Double-counting: What if both Brazil and California want Acre’s REDD credits?
Carlos Klink, secretary of the climate change unit at Brazil’s environment ministry, recently told Bloomberg that Brazil would use REDD credits generated in the country to meet its own emissions targets. Where does that leave California, which is considering using REDD credits from the Brazilian state of Acre?
Is it time to stop arguing about trading forest carbon?
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Doug Boucher of the Union of Concerned Scientists puts forward an interesting argument: REDD funding is likely to remain tiny compared to the amount of finance that drives deforestation.
Barack Obama: “There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change”
On 3 August 2015, US President Barack Obama released an Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants. The aim of the regulation is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 32% lower in 2030 compared to 2005.