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Resources
Standards:
Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (www.climate-standards.org)
The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) has developed voluntary standards to help design and identify land management projects that simultaneously minimize climate change, support sustainable development and conserve biodiversity.
Green-e (www.green-e.org)
The nation's leading independent certification and verification program from the Center for Resource Solutions.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (www.ghgprotocol.org)
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol is a widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol Initiative, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, works with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
The Gold Standard (www.cdmgoldstandard.org)
The Gold Standard project method requires the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies that promise sustainable development for the local community. All Gold Standard projects are rigorously tested for environmental quality by registered third parties. The Gold Standard carbon credit label is awarded after third party validation and verification of the offset project.
The Voluntary Carbon Standard (www.v-c-s.org)
The VCS is designed to be a global benchmark standard for project-based voluntary emission reductions. It provides a degree of standardization to the Voluntary Carbon Market and creates a credible voluntary emission reduction credit, the VCU, that can be trusted, traded and used by VCM participants.
Providers:
BEF - Bonneville Environmental Foundation
The Carbon Neutral Company (highlighted in CRO article "To Offset or Not? ")
Carbon Fund
Clean and Green
Cleaner and Greener
Climate Save
The Climate Trust
Conservation Fund: Go Zero
e-Blue Horizons
Native Energy (highlighted in CRO article "To Offset or Not? ")
Terra Pass
Assessments of providers:
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In the News
>PG&E Launches Offset Program for Customers
>Searching for True Carbon Offsets
>Abbott Goes "Carbon Neutral" with U.S. Fleet
>Google To Go Carbon Neutral by End-2007
>It's a Dung Deal: AEP's plans for offsets
>Surfing Magazine Rides the Carbon Offset Wave
Legislative Updates
Summary of Senate Cap-And-Trade Proposals in the 110th Congress by the Pew Center for Global Climate Change
Read up on these companies' carbon strategies:
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Carbon Offsets
The Center for Resource Solutions or Green-e as people know it certify Renewable Energy Certificates, not carbon offsets. As of Novemeber 1, 2007. RECs are not offsets. RECs are 1MWh of renewable electricity and carbon offsets represent 1 metric tonne of carbon. Not the same thing. Those companies selling RECs as offsets know the difference and are engaging in fraud. Use Gold Standard or Voluntary Standard, it will cost more but are offsets from additional projects.
Paying for forgiveness?
One can't ignore the slight stench of the privileged paying for forgiveness, but how many companies are even making that effort? I guess if it’s in combination with reducing energy use and improving energy efficiency it’s a good first/alternate step. Are there any studies out there yet about the impact of these offset programs?