Latest Carbon News
Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Energy Efficient cook stoves in Greater Accra, Ghana.
co2balance is currently establishing an energy efficient stove project in Greater Accra, Ghana. This project seeks to improve the indoor air quality, reduce the labour burden of women, and bring new, clean technologies to the region. The improved coo... click here to read more »
Tuesday, July 13th 2010
Carbon emissions threaten fish
Baby fish may become easy meat for predators as the world’s oceans become more acidic due to CO2 fallout from human activity, an international team of researchers has discovered. In a series of experiments reported in the latest issue of the P... click here to read more »
Monday, July 12th 2010
co2balance teams up with LVS to offset mobile phones.
It is estimated that there are up to 90 million redundant phones in the UK – more than one phone for each person. This number continues to grow as we upgrade to new models when our contracts expire. Today, mobile phones have an average lifespan... click here to read more »
Professional Associations
co2balance is a Founder Member of the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA)
ICROA is a not-for-profit alliance of leading carbon reduction and offset organisations. It provides leadership and a unified voice advocating for rigorous industry standards. ICROA members support a reduce-andoffset approach to carbon management, and they all comply with the ICROA Code of Best Practice.
ICROA will:
- Support rigorous standards for the international voluntary carbon-management industry
- Establish best practice, through the promotion of the ICROA Code of Best Practice and adherence to that Code among its members
- Provide a credible industry voice on carbon reduction and offset policies, strategies, products, and services to governments, non-governmental organisations, policy-makers, businesses, and the media
Carbon Tracker Network is a voluntary, cooperative effort to promote the goals of quality, reliability and transparency in the voluntary carbon offset market. This international collaboration is the first of its kind in the voluntary offset market. It is an online source for information about high-quality carbon offsets and reliable offset vendors! It serves as an information clearinghouse about:
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Carbon offsets and their role in combating climate change
- Reliable carbon offset providers
- Carbon offset standards and their implementation
- The latest offset-related news.
co2balance is a member of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
