An Accountants Perspective on Carbon Markets

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0%2C1002%2Ccid%25253D256832%2C00.html

Voluntary Carbon Market in the U.S.

An interesting perspective recently published in the ecosytemmarketplace.
http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/article.opinion.php?component_id=6511&component_version_id=9750&language_id=12

The Forest Carbon Portal

http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/index.php

The Politics of Climate Change

The Guardian yesterday published an article quoting Jim Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, as saying Barack Obama only had four years to act to avoid an ecodisaster….and that cap and trade markets for carbon have failed….quite the statement!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama
There have been over three hundred comments published on the article and many of [...]

Carbon Market Financial Projections

The global carbon market will remained shielded against the worst effects of the economic slowdown and grow by over 27 per cent this year to $150bn, according to the latest projections from analyst firm New Carbon Finance.
For the entire article:
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2233791/carbon-market-grow-150bn

REDD and Forest Protection

From an article in the Guardian:
International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn.
In a report to be published on Thursday, Friends of the Earth International (FOE) will argue that current plans to slow the decline [...]

Voluntary Carbon Standard

From the Report:
This document provides guidance and additional context for users of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), the VCS Program Guidelines, and the VCS Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) project tools. At the beginning of each section, relevant content from the respective VCS document (VCS, the VCS Program Guidelines, and the VCS AFOLU [...]

Carbon Finance

An interesting update on the finance of carbon markets by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Environmental-Market-Solutions-to-Climate-Change

Blue Source

I noticed this company in a press release from Goldman Sachs. They started in 1995 and are positioning to play a major role in domestic carbon credit markets. They also have an interesting values statement…they are driving the vision of their company through Christian religious mores.
http://www.ghgworks.com/index.html

Sustainable Livelihood

Many times over the past few years I’ve referred to our land use and environmental work in terms of their improvements to health and livelihood of communities. We have never methodically developed indicators or measures of “healthy, sustainable livelihood”…but think it is critically important.
Attached is a white paper that begins to take the issues apart [...]