Friday, August 27th 2010
Cheap car insurance goes green with gogreencompare.com
Financial and environmental benefits are becoming more important to motorists but it has not always been possible to get both when taking out a car insurance policy. Now, a new concept in comparing cover has arrived to help consumers save money and g...
Wednesday, August 25th 2010
Special Offer for CarbonZero Federation Members
The co2balance team is pleased to announce that they have teamed up with fellow CarbonZero Federation members and eco-friendly office supplies company Coast to Coast Direct in an exciting new venture that will directly benefit Federation companies.
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Tuesday, August 24th 2010
Aberdares Project Now Listed Under Gold Standard
co2balance continues to move forward in providing high quality carbon credits as our Aberdares Improved Cook Stoves Project is now listed on the Gold Standard Registry.
This project is seeking to address numerous environmental, social and economic i...
Monday, August 23rd 2010
UK Forestry Commission launches carbon-offset standard
The Forestry Commission is set to begin testing a new quality assurance scheme for carbon offsetting projects in the UK designed to ensure that tree-planting initiatives really deliver promised cuts in carbon emissions.
The new Woodland Carbon C...
Thursday, August 12th 2010
New Direction on the way for Carbon Markets
The EU carbon market is treading water currently, benchmark prices for EUAs and CERs hovering around €14 and €12 respectively. Prices have gone sideways over the past month, with little happening to move the market beyond the daily influ...
Tuesday, August 10th 2010
Energy Efficient cook stoves in Greater Accra, Ghana.
co2balance is currently establishing an energy efficient stove project in Greater Accra, Ghana. This project seeks to improve the indoor air quality, reduce the labour burden of women, and bring new, clean technologies to the region. The improved coo...
Monday, August 9th 2010
United Nations resumes issuing carbon credits after six week set back.
The United Nations’ climate secretariat on Thursday issued 228,400 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets to three Asian clean energy projects, ending a two-week issuance drought but failing to reassure concerned investors. The offsets, called Certifie...
Tuesday, July 13th 2010
Carbon emissions threaten fish
Baby fish may become easy meat for predators as the world’s oceans become more acidic due to CO2 fallout from human activity, an international team of researchers has discovered.
In a series of experiments reported in the latest issue of the P...
Monday, July 12th 2010
co2balance teams up with LVS to offset mobile phones.
It is estimated that there are up to 90 million redundant phones in the UK – more than one phone for each person. This number continues to grow as we upgrade to new models when our contracts expire. Today, mobile phones have an average lifespan...
Thursday, July 8th 2010
co2balance moves into Ethiopia
Ethiopia has experienced severe deforestation in the last century. Its natural forest cover has plummeted from 35 percent at the start of the 20th century to just 3 percent today. While agricultural practices are one of the main causes, collecting wo...
