The carbon market: a potential planet saver or greenwashing that gives polluting companies an opportunity to evade reducing their emissions?
Putting a price on carbon emissions along with the cap-and-trade system should encourage businesses, and countries, to stop polluting
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/ 6 November 2011
African farmers say they are struggling to access a key programme meant to help them take part in the fight against climate change.
Rothschild Australia and Australia-based environmental group E3 International have launched a new fund to allow highly polluting companies to offset their emissions by buying carbon credits from cleaner firms.
SAA has introduced a voluntary carbon-offset programme.
But some see carbon credits as a false solution because companies will use the system to avoid cutting their carbon emissions
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Amendments to offset regulations published on 8 July give clarity on big emitters carrying old carbon credits to a new framework
One country pays for greenhouse gas emissions in another country and uses that credit for its own emission reduction targets — but accounting irregularities increased carbon emissions
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/ 14 September 2007
Government has gone into the carbon trading business. The state-owned Central Energy Fund has set up its own carbon trading operation. Headquartered in London, the operation is intended to ensure that South Africa maximises the benefits for the country from the rapidly growing trade in carbon credits. Carbon credit projects already in the pipeline stand to earn the country about R900-million.
Want to buy a lot of hot air? From April, investors will be able to trade carbon credit notes on the JSE Securities Exchange, as the emissions market contemplated by the Kyoto Protocol comes to life. The protocol, which came into force a month ago this week, sets emission limits for individual countries, and therefore companies.