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The VCS carbon-offset metric that ICF used to select these projects is voluntary and industry-created.
Bob Jacobson: Privatizing Public Diplomacy: Clinton's Shanghai Expo Sustainability Pledge Goes Awry Bob Jacobson 2010
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We'll have to wait and see to find out whether this is the iPhone of the carbon-offset world or just the Apple Newton.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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We'll have to wait and see to find out whether this is the iPhone of the carbon-offset world or just the Apple Newton.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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We'll have to wait and see to find out whether this is the iPhone of the carbon-offset world or just the Apple Newton.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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The VCS carbon-offset metric that ICF used to select these projects is voluntary and industry-created.
Bob Jacobson: Privatizing Public Diplomacy: Clinton's Shanghai Expo Sustainability Pledge Goes Awry Bob Jacobson 2010
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The joint venture will seek to leverage APX ' s role in building California ' s carbon-offset registry as the exchange targets a launch for U.S. trading operations next year.
U.S. Carbon Trading Centers on California Jacob Bunge 2010
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Sell fake carbon-offset credits: This scheme involves selling investors on an offset project, often far away, that either doesn't exist or doesn't do what is claimed.
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Consol's project is one of only a handful around the world but is expected to be replicated as mining companies seek to capture greenhouse gas in order to sell carbon-offset credits to utilities and others.
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The prince, known for his efforts on the environmental front, cut greenhouse-gas emissions at his 37-acre Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire (shown) by 18 percent from 2007 to 2008 and will use more recent savings and a carbon-offset program to make himself carbon neutral, according to this story from the Telegraph.
Prince Charles turns his Highgrove into an eco-friendly estate 2009
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Nations instead work on bilateral clean-energy and carbon-offset deals that fail to achieve major reductions in the growth of emissions.
Tara Lohan: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Big Climate Meeting in Copenhagen 2009
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