As E&E News (subs. req’d) reports today:
An industry group released standards yesterday for carbon dioxide offsets in the hopes of attracting existing and still-forming emission-trading markets.
The Voluntary Carbon Standards (VCS) are aimed at evaluating clean-energy projects in developing countries that are used to offset industrialized nations’ emissions of greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism.
You can read all about the new standard on their website. I am not terribly impressed with this new standard. Among other things, it allows tree projects (no! and no!). They also didn’t consult with a lot of environmental groups, and as I pointed out to E&E News and WWF, their website has this bizarre and I think inappropriate listing under Board members:
Seriously. How do you list an invited — but not accepted — Board member on your website? Especially from an organization that seriously criticized the previous draft of your offset standard.
The rest of the E&E article, with quotes from me and WWF, is below:







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