This report, published in December 2006, provides detailed information about carbon offsets and finds eight "Tier 1" organizations that satisfy a number of criteria to increase the probability that the carbon offsets purchased will have a real effect reducing carbon emissions. These eight organizations (in alphabetical order) are:
- AgCert/DrivingGreen (Ireland) www.drivinggreen.com
- atmosfair (Germany) www.atmosfair.de
- Carbon Neutral Co. (England) www.carbonneutral.com
- Climate Care (England) www.climatecare.org
- Climate Trust (U.S.) www.climatetrust.org
- co2balance (England) www.co2balance.com
- Native Energy (U.S.) www.nativeenergy.com
- Sustainable Travel Int'l (U.S.) www.sustainabletravelinternational.org
The report is careful to emphasize, however, that individual's efforts to reduce one's carbon emissions through lifestyle and consuming choices are most important.
5 comments:
I am not sure how these for profit companies would be doing this...the orgs make sense but being a profit driven organization seems hypocritical to me.
Actually, at least Climate Trust is a non-profit! I don't think AM looked at all the companies
http://www.climatetrust.org/about_us.php
I think what AM was thinking is that the .org links may be superior to the .com links
Whether an organization using .com or .org in their URL does not necessarily indicate profit or non-profit status. I would suspect that these are all non-profit, but i haven't checked them al.
Having the .com in the URL guarantees profit status, right?
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