This paper attempts to address this gap by examining the practicality of implementing Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) for personal road transport in Kenya. PCT is investigated with a focus on political considerations, potential system operation and the distributional impact of quota allocation to ...
Founding organizations of the VCS are the World Economic Forum, International Emissions Trading Associations, World Business Council on Sustainable Development and Climate Group. 24. For further details on J-Credit scheme, see J-Credit Scheme website,https://japancredit.go.jp/english/. Accessed on ...
the pace and scale of large-scale land-based investments for carbon removal have increased.Investorsare negotiating deals with governments to take control of large tracts of (often forested) land in developing countries. Carbon fixed by this land is then turned into carbon credits for trading on ...
Economy Northern Kenya conservancies eye pie of carbon credit billions Jan 29, 2023 - The big idea was to fund the growth of new trees that would absorb carbon, offsetting the carbon generated, for instance, by Meta’s massive computer storage and server farms, known a...
The partnership aims to harness Africa's largely untapped potential to contribute to the supply of carbon credits. Countries such as Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo have already started collaborating with the ACMI to scale carbon credit producti...
led to the creation of a carbon price, emissions trading to reduce global emissions levels, and increased availability of funds for decarbonization actions in developing countries.11 While CDM served as the foundation of the global carbon credit market, it has since evolved, as shown in Figure 2...
It also estimated that cookstove credits sold on the basis of some of the most popular methodologies in the market had led to at least 10 times fewer avoided emissions than claimed. Barbara Haya, co-author and founder of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, said the credits were “being used...
Mind the gap: Personal carbon trading for road transport in Kenya. Clim. Policy 2020, 20, 1141–1160. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Uusitalo, E.; Kuokkanen, A.; Uusitalo, V.; von Wright, T.; Huttunen, A. Personal carbon trading in mobility may have positive distribution effect. Case ...
In particular, Yu et al. [24] showed that an emission trading system has the potential to enhance both firms’ carbon performance and financial performance. While the nature of carbon offsetting projects implies that their value should primarily be determined by their impact on carbon reduction,...
November, Swiss entrepreneur Renat Heubergerstepped down from his roleas CEO of South Pole — one of the world’s first major carbon credit trading companies — aftermedia reports foundthe company had overstated the climate value of carbon credits that lay in its ...