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New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/11/2008

The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) recently launched at the London Stock Exchange. It is being touted as the first time a standardized approach has included land use projects including forestry and agriculture and made them accessible to all market players in the $330 million voluntary carbon ma ...

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Atlanta Establishes First ‘Carbon Neutral Zone’ in the U.S.

Posted by Environmental Leader on 18/11/2008

Verus Carbon Neutral and Antje Kingma, founder of Eco-Bella, say they have established the first Carbon Neutral Zone in the U.S. The zone - a community of 18 businesses in the Virginia Highland shopping district in Atlanta - completed carbon footprint audits and volunteered to purchase the requir ...

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New CO2 burying technique says no to leakage!

Posted by varshalohlta on 14/11/2008

'Engineer aims to bury CO2 with a leak proof technology' Every day, every hour, every minute and every second we are inching towards global warming. To battle with this problem countries around the world are trying every possibility to go...

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FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2008

FedEx released its 2008 Global Citizenship Report (PDF) and announced that it plans to reduce aircraft emissions and increase vehicle fuel efficiency by 20 percent over the next 12 years.FedEx reported it reduced aircraft CO2 emissions by 3.7 percent per available ton mile over the past three yea ...

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IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2008

IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of 3.5 percent energy saving and cut 3.8 percent of its total energy use. However, IBM reported a 5 percent increase in its net CO2 emissions due to business growth.IBM’s conser ...

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