The digital carbon footprint refers to pollution that cannot be seen, and comes from greenhouse gasses (GHG). This pollution happens mainly in activities related to the internet’s use. The Digital Carbon Footprint (DCF) has been a proposal to analyze the environmental impact of something characterizing modern society: digitalization. In the last couple of decades, a …
A few things on carbon projects When it comes to types of forestry projects, it is necessary to talk about a type of carbon project. It is highly important to understand what they are, how they originate and what they generate. Carbon projects are equivalent to an initiative, most of the time privately led, which …
In the last few years, environmental commodities have been an effective market solution in the fight against climate change. The most common ones are carbon credits. Every ton of CO2 is provided by projects that involve nature -based solutions, technology-based solutions, carbon removal, avoidance projects among others. The stakeholders who buy these carbon offsets are …
What is an Emission Trading System (ETS)? An Emission Trading System is an instrument based on the “cap and trade” principle, whose premise is to set a limit on GHG emissions that can be emitted by one or a group of economic sectors. Under this mechanism, each year is fixed a maximum amount of GHG …
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What are carbon credits? Carbon credits are one of the three proposals that were included in the Kyoto Protocol. Their main goal is the reduction of emissions causing global warming. They were presented by Graciela Chichilnisky, an Argentine mathematical economist, in 1993. Carbon credits is a generic term for any tradable certificate that represents a …
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Addressing climate change is perhaps the biggest generational task we face and there is a clear opportunity for finance to accelerate the response to it. There are many ways in which the private sector can contribute to this cause, and the use and promotion of renewable energy in its operations has been a major one …
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