What Is Carbon Credit?

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  LittleCarbonFeet02/07/08 Report as spam
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  Title is Misleading

  I think the title misrepresents offsets. Offsets are not an indulgence to reduce or deflect your guilt. If they are used to "clear your carbon conscience", they are used inappropriately
  
  Rather they should be incorporated as part of an organization's overall emission reduction strategy. The emphasis should be on a complementary approach that that addresses emissions throughout your supply chain. First, look for reductions, and then complete your actions by mitigating the balance of your emissions through offsets.

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  drhall02/07/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  Carbon offsets do little to Finance True Environmentally sound alternative processes such as Wind, Photovoltaics, Solar Hot Water and BioEnergy ... the Carbon Cap and Trade is flawed economically (there is no true oversight, no true penalty to be paid)
  
  The Better Policy would Penalize the Pollution producing industry with strong monetary incentive (making it cheaper and more effective to comply than not
  comply say with a Green Certificate which would directly benefit the Alternative Industry and offer True Energy use change and production.
  
  Cap & Trade is a losing proposition from Go!
  
  don hall
  bearcreekresearch

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  lauda02/08/08 Report as spam
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  Trading Carbon Credits

  How and where specifically can I trade carbon credits?
  
  Anyone on this board currently trading CC's?
  
  Thanks!

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  athakur02/08/08 Report as spam
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  A new form of "currency" ...

  As I gather, CC can be traded either at a national level (country X is buying/selling CC's) or at the corporate level (company X sells it's CC to another company Y). Individuals - to my understanding are not entitled to trade in CC).
  
  Think of it as a new "currency" form which is granted to entities who has a significant carbon footprint on the environment & eco-system.

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  sri supina02/13/08 Report as spam
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  trading carbon credits

  As far as I know, Carbon Credit is not for individuals..but it might be a bigger issue..how to involve individuals on carbon market.

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  CleanNovaScotiaCY02/08/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  You note that offsetting schemes include 'tree planting' but that has been identified as one of the most problematic of all the offsetting ventures. The trees must remain in place, growing, for nearly 80 years I believe, to make it a true offset.
  
  Cap and Trade don't create reductions necessarily, they just maintain a status quo. As an environmentalist, I think what needs to happen is a proper, legislated schedule for a collapsing cap. That will spur real industry change. Some businesses are very proactively moving on this notion of adjusting for efficiency and lower emissions, and I can only applaud them... they make our governments look bad!

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  sri supina02/13/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  The carbon trade is an idea that came about in response to the Kyoto Protocol. Signed in Kyoto, Japan, by some 180 countries in December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol calls for 38 industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between the years 2008 to 2012 to levels that are 5.2% lower than those of 1990.
  The idea behind carbon trading is quite similar to the trading of securities or commodities in a marketplace. Carbon would be given an economic value, allowing people, companies, or nations to trade it. If a nation bought carbon, it would be buying the rights to burn it, and a nation selling carbon would be giving up its rights to burn it. The value of the carbon would be based on the ability of the country owning the carbon to store it or to prevent it from being released into the atmosphere. (The better you are at storing it, the more you can charge for it.)

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  Junia.rosasoares03/05/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  For us, another lost opportunite. Let me explain myself:
  In our Master's Degree Program, at ESAG / UDESC, we have a research team, and institutional support to accomplish a task: by using a questionnaire to be applied to all companies in our state (Santa Catarina- Brazil), we?ll try to figure out what our companies are doing to reduce emissions, how are they doing it, and if not, why is so. Also, another objective is to find out how is the carbon credit market being perceived by those industries. During the pre-text applications, we could already notice that carbon credit market is pretty much limited to big industries, mostly because of the unavoidable costs required to establish management programs.
  Hence, as far as we could notice at this point of the research, many companies in a developing country like Brazil are facing a terrible choice: to continue to operate in old fashion ways of production, without solving the environmental impact they cause or to perish. As simple as that. Without a consistent governmental and international agencies support, to create either laws, constrains or a market to negotiate carbon credits will be useless: most small/medium size companies in our country just don?t have a choice to make.

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  rmc371103/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  I think the whole idea is a scam! if the companies really gave a ---- they would first and foremost implement current alternative energy sources, i.e. wind, water turbines and solar. Anything else is is well lets just substance that produces methane gas!
  
  truckeconomy.com

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  soniagrewal02/21/09 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  carbon credit concept came into existance as a result of increasing awareness of controlling GHGs(green house gases)emission. A country is allowed to emit certain limits.If it emitts below the limit incentives in the form of credit exchange are given and if the nation emits more than limit it has to pay some credits.
  Thus, here are two types of credits: paid credits are called Emission trading or cap-and-trade;
  gain credits are called as offset trading.
  Carbon trading is the name given to exchange of emmision permits,alternatively known as carbon credits
  
  

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  soniagrewal02/22/09 Report as spam
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  RE: What Is Carbon Credit?

  The concept of carbon credit came into existance due to increasing awareness of controlling emission of GHGs(green house gases).Carbon credit creates a market for reducing emission by the means of giving monetary values to the cost of polluting the air.It is basically an emission allowance.A country has to pay taxes if it emits GHGs more than certain fixed limits,then it is called as emission credit.On the other hand, a country gets credits if it emits less than limits, then it is called as offset-trading.These tradings can occur in any developing countries which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and has a national agreement to validate their carbon project through one of the UNFCCC's (United nation framework convention on climate change)approved mechanism.