Sentence examples for carbon offsets projects from inspiring English sources
Carbon offsets: Projects that lower carbon emissions in nonregulated industries, such as forestry or farming.
A key vehicle for channeling adaptation finance is the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund, which supports developing countries' adaptation using proceeds from a 2percentt levy on carbon offsets projects through the Clean Development Mechanism.
Shea also works as a research assistant for the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative on a carbon offsets project related to the avoided conversion of grasslands, and she volunteers as a Nonprofit Board Fellow for The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut.
Some negotiators view project developers and private investors as "carbon cowboys" responsible for the design of dubious carbon offset projects in developing countries under the Clean Development Mechanism, she added.
Kyoto's clean development mechanism could send $100bn from north to south for investment in carbon offsetting projects, such as renewable energy schemes and tree planting.
Business also needs long-term policy stability beyond 2012 to prevent further loss of confidence in carbon offset projects and to foster capital-intensive low carbon technology markets.
So the argument is that one-off carbon offsetting projects do not deliver real benefits to the atmosphere unless governments undertake much wider efforts to curb deforestation.
Carbon offset projects can also create leakage, where a project causes impacts that unintentionally increase emissions elsewhere, such as when deforestation is simply relocated rather than avoided.
The researchers from Kemfri are now looking to scale up the various reforestation, conservation and carbon offsetting projects to other parts of the Kenyan coastline where mangroves grow.
Speaking yesterday at the launch of the Carbon Rating Agency, the world's first ratings agency for carbon offsetting projects, Stern warned that the 2% estimate required governments to act quickly.
Here's a YouTube video by the group: Longtime readers of my work know I've been skeptical of the merits of many carbon offset projects (start with my 2007 article, "Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?") But I'm a fan of voluntary offset projects of this sort where the added value of a payment goes far beyond avoided greenhouse gases.
