Carbon Expert News | How to reduce your carbon footprint

The Carbon Footprint specifically counts how much greenhouse you expel, minus how much you take back in, in your daily life. Here's a few tips.

General

1. Use vegetable-based and biodegradable products of all kinds: From plastics to bio-diesel, from soaps & detergents to computer parts & rail road ties, nearly everything can now be made from renewable resources at competitive/cheaper prices. Ask your merchants to find them for you!
2. Reuse instead of throw away & share instead of buying. Old toothbrushes make a great tool, and if you need a ladder, ask your neighbour.
3. Buy Local, especially your fresh foods. Anything you buy affects your Carbon Footprint, and fresh foods are almost always by truck or plane, hence, very carbon intensive. Canned foods, even from far away can sometimes beat fresh foods in their carbon footprints (including the manufacturing of the can), simply by slower transports and no refrigeration.
4. Ask for renewable energy from your electricity provider. Most electricity companies in the US, EU & AUS now provide a premium service, which forces them to provide you with renewable energy only. You may have to pay extra, but now you can leave the lights on without feeling all that guilty.

At the Office

1. No more plastic disposable cups! Let everyone bring in a mug or a glass from their home, and wash it in the restroom.
2. Printouts are so 1990... Nothing should ever be printed anymore. Provide notebooks and pens for those who still feel like scribbling.
3. Power down when you leave, from lights to computers, everything should be off when you leave the office.

Transportation

1. Use your bike or just your feet!
2. Use the bus, the train, the metro, the tram, or whatever else is available
3. Get a "green" vehicle.
4. Carpool - get a lift to school or work with a friend.

Source: green.wikia.com

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Lessons to be learnt from Europe on carbon pricing and farming
This week the government finally saw its carbon tax legislation passed through parliament. At the same time farmers have received the first approved methodology for how carbon farming could work.  In both cases a registry of emissions units will track Australian carbon credits. But if the European experience is anything to go by, Australia will need to be vigilant to ensure fraud does not occur.
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UK government releases first CRC league table
But critics say table does not provide an accurate view of how much energy is “wasted”, or reflect past efforts on efficiency. It may no longer apply to carbon credits but the first UK Government CRC energy Efficiency Scheme league table, released yesterday, still has its critics.  The biggest accusation has been it does not provide a true indication of how a company’s energy efficiency measures – the table only measures actions taken over the last year, and some have said it penalizes data centres that were designed to be efficient built before this period
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China accused of 'climate blackmail' over HFC credits
Chinese official says country will stop destroying harmful greenhouse gas if carbon credits it generates are outlawed.  China has threatened to release huge amounts of the potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 if the international community proceeds with plans to ban carbon credits generated by destroying the gas.  HFC-23 is a by-product of the refrigerant gas HCFC-22 which has a much greater warming effect than carbon dioxide and stays in the atmosphere for up to 200 years.
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Advanced Global Trading encourages motoring enthusiasts to offset emissions at 2011 Dubai International Motor Show
Carbon trading brokerage, Advanced Global Trading (AGT), has arguably the toughest sell of all at this year's Dubai International Motor Show as it tries to convince motoring enthusiasts to 'go green' and offset their vehicles' carbon emissions.
Steve Graham, Senior Consultant at AGT, says: "We know we have a tough job on our hands to convince these car fanatics - many of whom own gas guzzling supercars - to offset the CO2 their vehicles emit into the environment. However, given we're the only carbon brokers in the Middle East we've decided to exhibit at the Motor Show to highlight the environmental issues and raise people's awareness as much anything else. The UAE has one of the highest per capita CO2 emission rates in the world and cars are responsible for huge part of this with over a million vehicles registered in Dubai alone."
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Carbon Expert News | Doctors warn climate change is a threat to public health

Medical experts have urged policy makers to take concrete steps to tackle climate change, warning that failure to do so poses an immediate, grave and escalating threat to the health and security of billions of people around the globe.

More than 100 medical and military professionals, including Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of council at the British Medical Association and Lord Michael Jay, chairman of medical relief charity Merlin, yesterday backed a statement declaring climate change the greatest current threat to public health.

The statement outlines how rising temperatures and weather instability will lead to more frequent and extreme weather events, loss of habitat and habitation, water and food shortages, the spread of diseases, ecosystem collapse, and threats to livelihood, potentially triggering mass migration and conflict within and between countries.

It also warns that humanitarian crises will impact on military resources and that the human and economic cost of climate impacts "will be enormous".

It urges the EU to urgently adopt a 30 per cent CO2 greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 and for the United Nations to commit to restricting the global temperature rise to 2°C as agreed at the Copenhagen and Cancun Summits.

Opening the meeting, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne urged national governments to limit the impact of climate change to deliver "a cleaner, healthier, safer future".

Professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance urged politicians to tackle the tangible risks posed by global warming.

"It is not enough for politicians to deal with climate change as some abstract academic concept," he said.

"The price of complacency will be paid in human lives and suffering, and all will be affected. Tackling climate change can avoid this, while related lifestyle changes independently produce significant health benefits. It is time we saw true leadership from those who would profess to take such a role."

Other signatories included Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, former president of the Royal College of Physicians, David Kidney, the former MP who is now head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, and the leaders of Norway and Sweden's Medical Associations.

The statement was released as startling new research predicted sea levels are likely to rise by 75 centimetres by 2100 as a result of climate change.

Aslak Grinsted, researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate, the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, yesterday published a set of projected changes in sea level for the next 500 years.

The two most realistic scenarios, calculated based on greenhouse gas emissions and pollution levels stabilising in the coming decades, predicts sea levels will still rise by about 75cm by 2100 and two metres by the year 2500.

The most pessimistic scenario, where emissions continue to increase, predicts sea levels could rise 1.1 metres by 2100 and 5.5 metres by 2500.

Even in the most optimistic scenario, requiring extremely dramatic climate change goals, major technological advances and strong international cooperation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the sea would continue to rise by around 60cm by 2100 and 1.8 metres by 2500.

Grinsted said the changes would occur because ice caps and sea levels react slowly to changes in emissions.

"Even if we stabilise the concentrations... and stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we can see that the rise in sea level will continue to accelerate for several centuries because of the sea and ice caps long reaction time," he said.

"So it would be 2-400 years before we returned to the 20th century level of a 2 mm rise per year."

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How Are Carbon Emissions Being Reduced?

 

Increasing carbon emissions have been a large talking point in the world and many world leaders have gathered together to try and reduce this. The threat that many people face is one of global warming and one that can have bad consequences if it’s not dealt with adequately. There are many ways individuals and businesses are cutting down on carbon emissions. In many ways being eco friendly grants businesses a certain status that is admired by many people. However besides this, governments have opted in for the use of carbon credits which can be used as incentives to reduce overall carbon output.

Carbon credits are part of an overall scheme but within this scheme there are two defining markets. The first one is the voluntary market; this is where businesses and individuals can purchase credits during individual or business activities. The credits in this market go straight to fund environmental projects such as the plantation of forests or research into new renewable energy sources.

The second type of market is the mandatory market which means companies are required by law to purchase carbon credits to offset their emissions. The standard procedure which takes place is called ‘cap and trade’ this is where companies have a certain amount of time and a limit of carbon emissions. If they’re under this limit they can sell off the carbon credits to polluting companies. However if they’re over they will have to purchase credits from greener companies to offset the fact they’re over polluting.

This has been shown to encourage businesses to be more competitive with their carbon emissions as there is a financial incentive. This financial incentive means that the greener your company is the more it will earn via the sale of carbon credits. This can lead to more growth and thus even greener technologies being developed.

Some ways businesses can reduce their carbon output are by using more energy efficient things or using the ones they have less. This can include using energy efficient bulbs, using recyclable paper, having solar panels on the building, turning the heating down and make improvements to the buildings insulation.

Due to the regulations in place and the desire for businesses to become more environmentally friendly, it has caused the carbon market to grow pretty rapidly. Since it’s grown so fast it’s provided many opportunities for investors to make a lot of money and increase their portfolio.

Companies like Carbon-Expert are a leading carbon broker in the market with many years worth of experience from their experts. Using a company like this will allow you to quickly get access to the rapidly growing carbon trading market and provide you with opportunities you wouldn’t normally have received.

How Are Carbon Emissions Being Reduced?

Increasing carbon emissions have been a large talking point in the world and many world leaders have gathered together to try and reduce this. The threat that many people face is one of global warming and one that can have bad consequences if it’s not dealt with adequately. There are many ways individuals and businesses are cutting down on carbon emissions. In many ways being eco friendly grants businesses a certain status that is admired by many people. However besides this, governments have opted in for the use of carbon credits which can be used as incentives to reduce overall carbon output.

Billionaires to get free carbon allowances to offset green tax on private jets

Corporate jets used by billionaires the Duke of Westminster and Lord Ashcroft are among the aircraft to be allocated free "carbon allowances" to offset the cost of a new green tax.

 

Almost 200 corporate jet owners, from oil company ExxonMobil to Starbucks and Iceland Foods, will be awarded free permits to compensate them for the new expense of Europe's carbon trading scheme for aircraft.