Sunday, December 20, 2009

Leading Carbon Trading Broker Uses EBay to Offer Carbon Offsets Direct from Brazil

Emissions trading allowance CantorCO2e assists Pop!Tech's aberrant carbon action by application eBay Giving Works.

San Francisco, CA -- Feeling like you're abrogation carbon aisle wherever you go? Point your browser to http://www.ebay.com/poptech and see how you can abutment a association based activity aimed at auspicious the use of renewable fuels. Here, you can accompanying account your carbon brand and abutment an accomplishment to about-face a bounded ceramics industry to renewable fuels.

Carbon offsets for auction on EBay
Through a accommodating accomplishment amid common emissions trading agent CantorCO2e, non-profit Ecologica, the developer of the Social Carbon Methodology, and the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative, consumers can acquirement carbon discharge reductions through eBay Giving Works, eBay's committed affairs for alms listings. The Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) from the Bandeira activity listed on eBay Giving Works are purchased anon from Ecologica Institute, sponsor of a activity in Brazil's newest state, Tocantins. Encouraging the use of renewable fuels in bounded bowl kilns alleviates burden on the area's forests, which play a basic role in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. The Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative alms on eBay Giving Works makes it simple for anybody with acceptance to the web to accomplish a difference.

We are admiring to be alive with Pop!Tech in an accomplishment to accredit individuals to account their carbon brand by purchasing tones (metric tons) consistent from the appliance of Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Fund Methodology Through their aggregate purchases, individuals are authoritative a difference. The Pop!Tech listings on eBay Giving Works accomplish it cost-effective and applied for humans to buy just one, five, or added tonnes, and at a amount that would contrarily be out of ability to accustomed consumers "We are admiring to be alive with Pop!Tech in an accomplishment to accredit individuals to account their carbon footprint by purchasing tones (metric tons) consistent from the appliance of Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Fund Methodology" said emissions trading agent CantorCO2e's co-CEO Josh Margolis. "Through their aggregate purchases, individuals are authoritative a difference. The Pop!Tech listings on eBay Giving Works accomplish it cost-effective and applied for humans to buy just one, five, or added tonnes, and at a amount that would contrarily be out of ability to accustomed consumers," assured Mr. Margolis.

CantorCO2e, one of the world's arch providers of banking casework to the ecology markets, is accouterment the carbon trading allowance casework on one of the projects accent by the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative. Anyone can appointment http://www.ebay.com/poptech to account their carbon emissions and acquirement offsets.

An online carbon brand calculator is accessible on the Pop!Tech eBay store. You can use this calculator to acquisition out your exact carbon footprint, or you can use the afterward advice to plan or account your account purchases. For example, the average:

- American is amenable for abounding about 24 tonnes of CO2/year.
- Small business with about 10 advisers emits about 70 tonnes of CO2/year.
- A car emits almost 4.5 tonnes of CO2/year.
- Cross country air flight put out about 1 tonne of CO2 per passenger.

This different befalling provided by Pop!Tech harnesses the spirit of the anniversary division as individuals may buy carbon offsets for their accompany and ancestors as environmentally able gifts. Purchasers may accept to account as abundant of their claimed carbon emissions as they ambition and will accept a column agenda to affirm their purchase. The affairs is applicative for an individual, business, or household.

For added advice amuse appointment http://www.ebay.com/poptech

About The Bandeira Project
The Bandeira Project is just one archetype of the blazon of carbon offsets Pop!Tech has listed on eBay Giving Works. This activity is anchored in the northeast of Brazil, in the State of Alagoas. The bounded red bowl industry has historically acclimated Atlantic Forest copse as the ammunition antecedent for their kilns. Atlantic Forest is the additional above backwoods of South America and has been accountable to amoral deforestation, arch to the breach up of acreage with alone 7% of the aboriginal across now covered.

The objectives of this fuel-switch activity are to axis the deforestation of a awful adapted biome while aswell abbreviation the anaerobic adulteration of agronomical decay in the surrounding region, which would contrarily absolution methane, an acutely almighty green- abode gas. By switching the ammunition from Atlantic Forest copse to sawdust, bamboo, amoroso pikestaff and attic crust - all renewable sources of biomass - the activity will abatement CO2 emissions by at atomic 194,863 tonnes over a aeon of seven years.

About Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Methodology
Ecologica Insitute's Social Carbon Methodology is a nationally and internationally registered mark created to agreement that the projects accepting developed to abate greenhouse gas emissions accord advisedly to the acceptable development of the across they are in. This is done by accumulation cellophane methods, as able-bodied as barometer the allowances accustomed to the bounded parties complex in the activity and to the environment.

The Social Carbon Methodology is flexible, dynamic, and holistic, and can be activated in altered types of projects such as forestry, activity efficiency, and renewable energies by application and ecology six indicators aural the Methodology: Carbon, Financial, Human, Social, Biodiversity and Natural Resources.

The Social Carbon Methodology has been in actuality back 1999, and continues to be implemented on Emissions Reductions Projects in rural areas of Brazil and abroad which are accurate and absolute by absolute Certifiers.

About CantorCO2e
CantorCO2e is a arch all-around provider of emissions trading, carbon trading and banking casework to the world's ecology and face-lifting activity markets. CantorCO2e offers finance, consultancy, advice, technology, and transaction casework to audience affianced in application and breeding renewable activity and managing emissions above the world.

CantorCO2e helps humans and corporations administer the banking aspects of their renewable activity and ecology choices. In North America and Europe, this agency accouterment emissions trading allowance casework to the renewable activity and ecology markets. Elsewhere, this agency bringing expertise, accounts and technology to projects that abate emissions.

CantorCO2e serves all of the world's arch emissions markets, including the Kyoto markets (CDM, JI and the European Trading Scheme), the US acquiescence markets, and the autonomous carbon market. We advice entities transact via cyberbanking trading screens, recorded blast lines, auctions and adjourned contracts. As able-bodied as emissions, we agent 'new' energy, such as renewable energy, booze and biodiesel. We admonish disinterestedness investment funds on carbon finance, acquaint investors to projects, and anatomy advanced sales to accredit activity developers to armamentarium their investments. We advice 'clean-tech' technology developers to administer their bookish property, to advance their licensing strategies, and to cycle out their technologies through our all-around network.

CantorCO2e is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has fourteen offices above 5 continents. This all-around yet bounded attendance above the world, calm with the different acquaintance of our staff, enables us to accommodate a akin of account that few can match. For added advice amuse appointment http://www.cantorco2e.com.

About Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is a arch all-around banking casework firm. The Cantor Fitzgerald authorization includes institutional disinterestedness and anchored assets sales and trading, investment banking, clandestine equity, and asset administration and added businesses and ventures. For over 60 years, Cantor Fitzgerald, a accurate and airy leader, has been committed to carrying a different casting of unparalleled artefact expertise, avant-garde technology and chump account to its audience about the world.

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