Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Kyoto may push factories to pollute more: U.N. report
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

(Reuters) - A Kyoto Protocol scheme may be encouraging projects to emit more greenhouse gases because of incentives to earn carbon offsets from subsequently destroying these, a U.N. report said. The projects ...

2. Used CO2
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Process improvements can reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) air emissions. When that is done there can be left over permitted CO2 air emissions that can be sold to other users. In doing so a certain percentage ...

3. Group: polluters use offsets to avoid carbon cuts (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit ...

4. 2010 is the Year of Green Trading
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... carbon trading, carbon offsets, renewable energy trading, energy efficiency, SRI investing and green hedge funds.Go to www.wsgts.com for more information ...

5. 3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... reduction in these costs? A: We have done other studies where we have considered issues related to the design of cap-and-trade or carbon tax systems. Ultimately, the cost of the policy is determined by ...

6. Do Offsets Really Help Reduce Emissions?
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... to lower their carbon "footprint" can pay to reduce carbon emissions somewhere else. But offsets are seen by critics as a dodge for companies that don't want to clean up at home. ...

7. Japan sees big firms trading CO2 next year
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Japan is looking to over 1,000 companies, including big firms, to join in a local over-the-counter market for carbon offsets that is being launched to spur voluntary efforts to cut emissions, a government ...

8. Asia's largest photovoltaic power plant in SinAn South Korea
(YouTube Videos / Tech)

... offsets 20,000 tonnes of carbon savings yearly. ...