The GHG Management Institute is the host of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories of Parties included in Annex I to the Convention. This programme is being organized by the UNFCCC secretariat in response to decision 10/CP.15 of the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth session (COP15). Read More»

From Environmental Finance

The recent suspension of a leading CDM verification company has highlighted the need to ‘professionalise’ the auditors of greenhouse gas emissions, say Tim Stumhofer and Michael Gillenwater. Read More»

Will carbon trading work?

December 14, 2009 11:41 p.m. EST – From CNN.com

(CNN) — Carbon trading — with its mix of free-market principles and government regulation — holds global appeal as a way for businesses to reduce emissions. But lack of a global market for carbon trade and questions over surveillance and accounting for pollution offsets raises questions about its viability.

The factors complicating accurate carbon-trading reportage begins with the “product” — in this case the absence of an invisible gas. Adding to the intangibility is the crediting of businesses for projected reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Read More»

From Reuters News on 19 November 2009, 16:19 PM 
By Michael Szabo

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – An injection of U.S. talent into the $6.5 billion market in carbon offsets would help clear bureaucratic bottlenecks, making way for increased investment in clean energy, the CEO of a $310 million environmental fund said. Read More»

From Nathanial Gronewold, E&E reporter

UNITED NATIONS — As some 15,000 people gather in Copenhagen for a high-profile effort to create a follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol agreement, some of the delegates will be absorbed in a more mundane, but important task. They must figure out how to reform of the Clean Development Mechanism, one of the protocol’s most visible and controversial parts. Read More»

25 November, 2009 – Carbon Finance

Six non-profits have concluded that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) could provide sufficiently high-quality carbon offsets for a future US cap-and-trade programme, but have called for significant reforms. Read More»

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