Tagged: carbon market

On the road to Net Zero, the next step is to update our UN pledge - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Nov 18, 2019 •

• carbon budget,
• carbon market,
• climate change,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• Paris Agreement

A lot has happened since the UN’s report on 1.5ºC was released in October 2018. New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Bill has passed, and enshrines the 1.5ºC goal in law. The UK and France have also legally strengthened their targets to Net Zero 2050. The School Strike For Climate and Extinction Rebellion have become household names. But progress on the ground … Read More

Emissions trading at Paris climate talks sets us up to fail - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 15, 2015 •

• carbon,
• carbon market,
• carbon pricing,
• climate change,
• COP21,
• deforestation,
• emissions trading,
• Kyoto,
• Paris Agreement,
• paris climate summit

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex The Paris Agreement has mostly been greeted with enthusiasm though it contains at least one obvious flaw. Few seem to have noticed that the main tool mooted for keeping us within the 2℃ global warming target is a massive expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange of credits between … Read More