Carbon Footprint, Management and Carbon
- Greenstone Carbon Management provides carbon consultancy and a suite of carbon accounting software solutions to assist organisations to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions.
- http://www.greenstonecarbon.com/
The GEO-SEQ Project - Describes U.S. public-private research and development on methods for capture and geologic sequestration of CO2. - http://esd.lbl.gov/co2geostorage/research/geoseq/geoseq.html
Act on CO2 - UK Government campaign, with help and advice for consumers to help them reduce CO2 their emissions. - http://www.dft.gov.uk/ActOnCO2/
Business Gets Serious About Emissions - BusinessWeek Online special report about business and global warming. - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_50/B39630550carbon.htm
Lawrence Livermore National Labs - News Release - Models show growing more forests in temperate regions could contribute to global warming. - http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-12-04.html
How Coldplay's green hopes died in the arid soil of India - Telegraph.co.uk article discusses the outcome of a carbon offset environmental initiative by the rock band Coldplay. - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/30/ngreen30.xml
What You Can Do: Go Carbon Neutral - The David Suzuki Foundation provides tips for becoming carbon neutral. - http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/What_You_Can_Do/carbon_neutral.asp
CO2nned - New Internationalist Magazine special issue on carbon offsets. - http://www.newint.org/issues/2006/07/01/
CO2 emissions - Listing of CO2 emissions by country compiled by the UN. - http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/air_co2_emissions.htm
Care needed with carbon offsets - BBC article discusses the finding that the benefits that come from trees reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide can be outweighed by their capacity to trap heat near the ground. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6184577.stm
BBC: Carbon emissions show sharp rise - The growth in global carbon dioxide emissions accelerated sharply around the year 2000, a new analysis shows. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6189600.stm
Greenspace Research - Description of a program that aims to reduce the carbon emission of buildings. - http://www.greenspaceresearch.com
U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory: 1990-2001 - A comprehensive assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and sinks in U.S. agriculture and forests. Provides extensive, in-depth emissions and sinks estimates for livestock, cropland, and forests, as well as energy consumption in livestock and cropland agri - http://www.usda.gov/oce/global_change/gg_inventory.htm
Low Carbon Knowledge Transfer Network - Information about a KTN that acts as a national network connecting organisations such as universities and investors to form communities interested in exploiting low carbon and fuel cell technologies. - http://www.low-carbon-ktn.org.uk/
Carbon Sequestration - Information about the US Department of Energy's portfolio of R&D programs into Carbon Sequestration. - http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/index.html
The Gold Standard - An NGO-backed tool that generates premium carbon credits and promotes sustainable development. It is a source of information for all stakeholders involved in CDM/JI projects. - http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org
Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership - The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership addresses CO2 emissions and seeks the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure needs for carbon capture, storage and sequestration, both terrestrial and geologic. - http://www.bigskyco2.org
Carbon Footprint - Information for householders to identify and calculate their carbon footprint and tips to reduce carbon emissions. - http://www.carbonfootprint.com
CarboEurope - A EU-funded research project designed to better understand, quantify and predict under current and future scenarios the carbon balance of Europe. - http://www.carboeurope.org
Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum - Information about the CSLF and its activities, including endorsed projects, papers and presentations. - http://www.cslforum.org/
Sleipner CO2 project - Animation showing the separation process of CO2 and natural gas as used by Statoil prior to underground CO2 storage. - http://www.statoil.com/statoilcom/svg00990.nsf/web/sleipneren?opendocument
US EPA Methane Voluntary Programs - EPA methane and utility outreach programs are intended to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. - http://www.epa.gov/methane/voluntary.html
The Carbon Trust - The Carbon Trust is an independent not for profit company set up by the UK Government with support from business to take the lead on low carbon technology and innovation in the UK. - http://www.thecarbontrust.co.uk/
The Royal Society - The role of land carbon sinks in mitigating global climate change - A report that highlights the considerable uncertainty in the scientific understanding of the causes, magnitude and permanence of the land carbon sink. The full report (27 pages) and a summary are available. - http://www.royalsociety.org/document.asp?tip=1&id=1421
Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium - The MGSC will assess the potential for geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide in the deeply buried unminable coal seams, depleting oil or gas reservoirs, and brine-filled rock formations found in the Illinois Basin. - http://www.sequestration.org/
CELB-Climate Change - Carbon offset projects in tropical forests with combined carbon, biodiversity and social benefits. - http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/programs/climate
Safe Climate for Business - A website dedicated to helping business of all sizes to understand and take action on climate change. - http://www.safeclimate.net/
GHC Protocol Initiative - Standards and guidance regarding corporate greenhouse gas accounting and reporting. - http://www.ghgprotocol.org/
DOE: Carbon Sequestration R&D - U.S. Department of Energy program of research and other efforts to develop mid- to long-term solutions for reducing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, including sequestration in oceans, geologic formations, and terrestrial ecosystems. - http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/sequestration/
Carbon Mitigation Initiative - Website providing information about a joint research project of Princeton University, BP and the Ford Motor Company into impacts of climate change and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The site includes research papers that can be downloaded. - http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/
Hydrogen Production With Carbon Sequestration - Research overview of the production of carbon sequestering fertilizer made during renewable hydrogen production. - http://www.eprida.com/hydro/
CIRENE (Center of Initiative and Research on Energy and the Environment) - Information about syntheses and studies to solve problems of industrial partners regarding greenhouse gases (including taxation, permits for carbon trading, technical-economic studies, feasibility studies for capture and storage of CO2, forecasting studie - http://www.cirene.asso.fr/ukco2.php
ETV Greenhouse Gas Technologies - U.S. EPA and Southern Research Institute (SRI partnership provides independent verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and monitoring technologies. - http://www.epa.gov/etv/centers/center3.html
Environmental Synergy, Inc. - A service organization providing reforestation and carbon quantification services to corporate clients as a means to offset carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and promote sustainable forestry. - http://www.environmental-synergy.com
Trends of Measured Climate Forcing Agents - Paper by Hansen and Sato (PNAS 2001;98:14778) makes the case for an increased focus on methane and aerosols in the short-term in order to mitigate climate change. - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/26/14778
Siberia II - Project Website - Multinational study to demonstrate the viability of full carbon accounting on a regional basis using the environmental tools and systems available to us today and in the near future. Site provides news, data and other information. - http://www.siberia2.uni-jena.de
The Carbon Fund - The Carbon Fund is financing and promoting the protection, restoration and enhancement of forests all over the world through carbon sequestration, an important tool in preventing global climate change. - http://www.thecarbonfund.org
Land-Use Management for Carbon Sequestration - Study of the potential for sequestering carbon from alternative land-use management options in SubSaharan Africa developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). - http://www.esd.ornl.gov/iab/iab2-16.htm
Greenhouse Gas Technology Center - Investigating the performance of technologies to mitigate and monitor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. - http://www.sri-rtp.com/
Carbon-Dioxide Sequestration in Geologic Media - Texas Bureau of Economic Geology describes its research initiatives on the potential to sequester carbon in saline geologic formations and abandoned oil/gas reservoirs. - http://www.beg.utexas.edu/environqlty/co201.htm
CO2 Capture Project - Describes efforts by eight of the world's leading energy companies to reduce the cost of CO2 capture from combustion sources and to develop methods for safely storing carbon dioxide underground. - http://www.co2captureproject.com/
Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases - Information about research by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) into ocean sequestration of carbon dioxide. - http://www.mbari.org/ghgases/