Climate-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 …
Read MoreThis week’s guest blogger – Don Bain
Please join me in welcoming one of our alumni and members as guest blogger this week for Inside the Institute. Don Bain is a highly successful management consultant, software expert and …
Read MoreUpdate from COP15 – What a ‘Whirlwind’
To say my first two days at COP15 in Copenhagen have been a whirlwind, would not only be a tired cliché, but would also horrendously underestimate the speed at which …
Read MoreEmissions offsets — a subsurface headache for Copenhagen’s players
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 …
Read MorePoorly informed critiques
A group of climate activists have just produced an entertaining animated short called “The Story of Cap & Trade.” Although the film is correct to worry about market manipulation and …
Read MoreGHG Accounting: Rocket science without the calculus
In an interview the other week I made the lazy mistake of oversimplifying GHG measurement with a tired colloquialism. While this may read as a statement of regret, I’m actually …
Read MoreNGOs give CDM a ‘passing grade’, call for reforms
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 …
Read MoreWelcome to the new GHGMI!
Welcome to the New Website! You can probably tell that we received an upgrade to our website. We are very excited about our new layout and believe it will provide …
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to the Copenhagen Protocol
Those of us constantly sniffing the political winds during the numerous negotiations leading up to this December’s Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen have known for some time that …
Read MoreWhat do we think of the Clean Development Mechanism?
The GHG Management Institute is a founding member of the Offset Quality Initiative. OQI is a consensus-based effort that brings together the collective expertise of its six nonprofit member organizations: …
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