Browse by subject: Climate change: Carbon offset/neutrality (74)
Wild Words
14 Oct 2007
What’s the price of a cow in Nepal got to do with climate change? A lot, says David Nussbaum. The new chief executive...
Whitehall War on Carbon
29 Nov 2007
The government has announced that its offices, land and other buildings will be carbon neutral by 2012. The target...
What price carbon?
21 Jul 2008
The government’s shadow pricing tool needs sharpening, says Rebecca Willis.
Turbine-driven telecoms
10 Jan 2008
BT builds up its own green power
Showing a lead to business, BT is investing in zero carbon electricity generation...
Tokyo launches Asia’s first ETS
06 Jul 2010
While Japan deliberates over a nationwide cap and trade scheme, the city of Tokyo has ploughed ahead with mandatory...
Time to stop tinkering
07 Jul 2008
Unlocking a massive retro-fit effort, says Paul King of the Green Building Council, is less to do with technical...
The scrubbers, the sulphates and the sunshield solution
19 Oct 2007
Can we techno-fix climate change? Mick Hamer explores the possibilities.
The new mile high club
28 Mar 2008
Airlines get passengers offsetting and recycling
When’s the best time to get air passengers to sign up...
The carbon neutral box scheme
05 Nov 2006
Looking to its environmental laurels, the food company, Simply Organic is joining the growing number of organisations...
Tesco ‘to go zero carbon’
21 Jan 2010
Tesco, the world’s third largest retailer, has committed to plans to be ‘zero carbon’ by 2050.
Sticking plaster or smoke signal
09 Nov 2006
Buy a car, plant a tree, save a planet? Some of these half-baked schemes really don’t add up to a hill of beans...
Slipping into neutral
25 Jun 2008
Our special feature on carbon offsets. Mark Tran asks if it’s that easy to pay our way to climate responsibility...
Rental cars try harder
09 Nov 2006
Avis Europe is to offer its customers the option of a ‘carbon neutral’ hire package. This will mean the...
Phone Co-operation
05 Nov 2006
The co-operative principle in action has produced some healthy results for the fledgling Phone Co-op. Its latest...
Newcastle's neutral CO2 ambition
06 Nov 2006
Newcastle has announced an ambitious plan to go 'carbon neutral' although it has not set a target date for achieving...
Mobile phones to count carbon
21 Dec 2007
New device tracks impact of every mile travelled
Carbon Hero is a new key-ring sized device that uses the...
Maldives first country to go carbon-neutral
29 May 2009
The Maldives outlined an ambitious target in March to power the islands completely through renewable power within the next decade...
Keeping Jo’burg’s impact neutral
07 Nov 2006
Whatever else came out of the Jo’burg summit, what about its emissions to the atmosphere? The Johannesburg...
Just how hard is it to…reduce the carbon footprint of a small business?
07 Dec 2007
Esther Maughan McLachlan looks for the answers.
Guilt trip
06 Nov 2006
Most Britons say they’d pay a surcharge on travel to offset their carbon emissions. A MORI poll for Avis (01344...
Green house effect
27 Nov 2008
Will new homes meet the zero-carbon test by 2016? Terry Slavin and Roger East investigate.
Give offsets some credit
19 Mar 2009
As companies seek to cut costs, why offset in a credit crunch? David Wellington makes the business case.
Freight firm takes the offset route
05 Nov 2006
If road freight firms are to feature in Green Futures, you’ll want to ask which problems they think they are solving...
Footie in a greenhouse
05 Sep 2006
“They think it’s all over. It is now.” You know who won the World Cup, but how did the environment...
Filth, fury and filmic neutrality
05 Nov 2006
‘Going carbon neutral’ could be catching on in the music and entertainment business. The latest release...
Engineers’ fears on climate levy
04 Nov 2006
The first calculations are now appearing of the actual financial impact of the Climate Change Levy. Businesses have...
Emissions trading rises worldwide...and across the company
05 Nov 2006
The World Bank is the latest body to get into the emissions trading game. Its new Prototype Carbon Fund, will helpfinance...
Davos stumps up for emissions
05 Nov 2006
Challenging the travel and tourism industry to take responsibility for its emissions, Green Globe 21 and Future Forests...
Climate issues ‘insignificant’ for small business
08 Aug 2001
SMEs slow to follow lead of green giants
Cardboard cooker wins $75,000
22 Apr 2009
A solar-powered cardboard cooker, which aims to transform the lives of hundreds of millions of villagers in developing...
Carbon markets: time to clean up
28 Jun 2008
The Clean Development Mechanism is widely derided as a source of easy pickings for wealthy polluters. So how, asks...
Can aviation go green?
08 Jan 2010
With the spotlight hovering over airline emissions, Roger East explores the possibilities of zero-emission aviation.
Calling all cars with a climate conscience
02 Nov 2006
The 3.8 million journeys made by these Radio Taxis each year take their toll on the environment, but now the firm...
Brazil's corporates lead on sustainability reporting
15 Mar 2010
Brazilian businesses are keen to leave their history of boom and bust behind, discover Andrew Downie and Martin Wright...
Aspiration, aspiration, aspiration
07 Jul 2008
Kevin Telfer gets fired up about some high profile projects.
Another part of the future forest
04 Nov 2006
Future Forests is broadening the range of ‘carbon neutral’ solutions on offer to its clients. It has...
American Eye
25 Apr 2008
Most Americans have two religions: their faith and their sports team. Suddenly, says Polly Ghazi, some powerful players...
