by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Carbon Pricing, International, Offsetting
Today the European Commission voted to ban industrial gas offset credits from HFC and N20 destruction projects from the next phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, beginning in 2013. That's a big deal for two reasons: Willingness to fix the problem Firstly it...
by admin | Oct 14, 2010 | Offsetting
As Environment Ministers meet in Luxembourg today the issue of whether the EU should take on more challenging climate targets, moving from a 20% to 30% emissions reductions by 2020, is firmly on the agenda. The EU has already legally capped half of its carbon dioxide...
by admin | Aug 27, 2010 | Offsetting
Commissioner Connie Hedegaard stated on the 25th August 2010 that she has asked her department “to prepare a proposal for a measure to introduce further quality restrictions on the use of credits from industrial gas projects in the post-2012 EU ETS.” This is the...
by admin | Jul 14, 2010 | Offsetting
European companies, whilst claiming tougher emissions targets would be ‘impossible to meet’ [1] and are damaging their competitiveness, are making extensive use of offsetting to meet their targets and even using it to directly subsidising their international...
by admin | Mar 10, 2010 | Europe, Offsetting
We’ve launched a brand new [map](http://sandbag.org.uk/offsetmap “”) and [report](http://sandbag.org.uk/files/sandbag.org.uk/InternationalOffsetsAndTheEU.pdf “”) today illustrating just how much offsetting is going on in Europe. Our [new...
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