What is a voluntary carbon market (Part 1)?
This blog post is going to be slightly more academic than my past ones. Comments or questions are welcome. Before jumping into what makes a voluntary carbon market, lets define …
Read MoreWhere is the GHG Management Institute located?
We get this question quite often. Where is our office? Our headquarters’ address is in the Washington, D.C. area. Specifically, we are incorporated in the State of Maryland as a …
Read MoreThe Treaty Compliance Challenge: Enforcement under the Kyoto Protocol
Now that we have the Copenhagen Accord, which gives us some hope that eventually we will have a treaty that includes the United States and active engagement from developing countries, …
Read MoreHow we do international capacity building
In the climate change policy world there is plenty of talk about capacity building, especially for developing countries — though occasionally for developed countries as well. Less frequently, however, is …
Read MoreWhy e-learning?
Here at the Institute, we are consistently amazed at the number of people who blindly assume we deliver training in a standard classroom setting. Indeed one of the most common …
Read MoreA time for reflection
As we close out this year, now is a good time for some refection before we charge into a new calendar. At the Institute, we have done just that, by …
Read MoreCOP15 Postmortem: Part I the UNFCCC process
It has taken this observer a few days (critically complemented by well overdue restful nights) to fairly assess the results of the Copenhagen fortnight. This delayed consideration is in part …
Read MoreStanding room only at the Institute’s Copenhagen side event
On Saturday evening the Institute had the distinct pleasure to co-host an official COP15 side event with the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSE) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
Read MoreCOP 15 Week in Review
As the first week came to a close at Copenhagen’s Bella Center, I took a moment to record a few impressions on the grueling COP process and an overview of …
Read MoreClimate-gate and Sarah Palin?
You know that the times are getting a little weird when Sarah Palin starts talking about historical reconstructions using proxy data of average global surface temperature (see her recent opinion …
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