Climate meets leave behind carbon footprints! - Ahmedabad - Cities - The Times of India
Ahmedabad : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) member and IIM-A professor Priyadarshi Shukla will be travelling to Geneva in July to attend an IPCC conference. On his air ticket, it is clearly mentioned that Shukla's flight with Air India and British Airways will be responsible for letting off 2,661 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere called carbon footprint that contributes towards global warming.April '07: Clinton campaign [allegedly] goes 'carbon neutral' - Climate Change- msnbc.com
The IPCC will trade off the total carbon dioxide emitted because of all its members flying to Geneva and purchase carbon credit' certificates generated due to a variety of emission reduction projects available with the European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) the largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in the world. These credit certificates will be of equivalent value of technology implemented somewhere in the world, that wholly or partly decrease an equivalent amount of CO2 generated because of IPCC members' air travel.
NEW YORK - To observe Earth Day on Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign said it would become "carbon neutral" to help fight global warming.Nov '08: Presidential Campaign Proves Environment a Hot Story | SEJ
"We all must act — and that includes our campaign," the Democratic front-runner said in a statement Friday.
The campaign said it would take several steps to conserve energy, such as buying 100 percent recycled paper products, installing motion-controlled lights and purchasing carbon offsets through Native Energy, a Vermont-based company that produces renewable energy.
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Like other presidential contenders, Clinton campaigns extensively in private planes — a much less energy-efficient mode of travel than flying on a commercial carrier.
Democrat John Edwards has also announced his campaign would go carbon neutral, and that he was purchasing carbon offsets for his new 28,000-square foot house in Chapel Hill, N.C.
During the primary both Clinton and Obama stressed that they were purchasing carbon offsets to compensate for the amount of air travel.
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I guess the carbon warning on the ticket is like the anti-smoking signs on cigarette packages. That's good, but from another angle it's just another example of pathetic leadership under the guise of "freedom". Free to drown in our own pollution, I guess.
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