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Responsibletravel.com drops carbon offsetting

By Nathan ⋅ November 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Ethical travel company responsibletravel.com has dropped carbon offsetting as an option on the holidays it sells, despite originally being one of the first travel companies to offer it as an option. Responsibletravel.com now shares the opinion of Friends of the Earth when they describe offsetting as a ‘dangerous distraction‘, and encourages customers to reduce their [...]

Climate change and the future

By Nathan ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This article on Science Daily discusses a recent study by scientists at Boston University into the effects on trees, and in turn on carbon and water cycles, of increased atmospheric levels of CO2. The small problem being that the article doesn’t actually give us any clues what will happen, only that analysing the stomatal density [...]

Carbon and Copenhagen

By Nathan ⋅ August 19, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

The EU Emissions Trading System has failed to drive real action on carbon emissions. With the Copenhagen climate conference approaching, what can be done to fix the system and improve carbon offsetting as an instrument to tackle climate change?

REDD

By Nathan ⋅ July 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A fascinating article on the Washington Monthly website by (I kid you not) Rhett Butler, Big REDD is an in-depth analysis of issues around deforestation, carbon capture, the rights of indigenous peoples, forest monitoring, Kyoto and the upcoming Copenhagen climate agreement. Read it now.

Sandbag

By Nathan ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New website http://sandbag.org.uk/ offers a solution to carbon emissions by buying and retiring carbon credits (also known as permits to pollute) from companies, and retiring them, thus preventing the companies from being able to pollute in the first place. I’ll be writing up more on carbon trading soon.

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