Carbon Credit Watch

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According to a chart made by British NGO Sandbag, Czech power producer CEZ ranks 7th among European companies that profit most from excess carbon credits as it received about carbon credits worth GBP 98 million for 7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2008-09.  read more »

As the controversies surrounding the United Nations’ (UN) carbon credit scheme continue to mount, the agency is trying to pass the buck on liability for exaggerated carbon-reducing claims. The Executive Board—the body that overseas the UN’s international carbon credit scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)—has tabled a proposal to make the companies that verify carbon emissions liable for excess credits.  read more »

Over the past week we have looked at several very potent symbols that were misused by major media campaigns that pushed a political agenda to promote vigorous action to combat global warming. We saw that they had to ignore basic arithmetic to paint polar bears as threatened, hyperventilate over GRACE findings that less than 0.5% of East Antarctic ice may have disappeared, and ignore IPCC scientists so they could insist that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.  read more »

Shortly after the release of the Muir Russell report, I criticized their wrongheaded and untrue finding that there had not been an outstanding FOI request at the time of the notorious Jones’ request to delete all emails seeking information on IPCC correspondence that, in Fred Pearce’s words, was a ‘subversion” of IPCC policy on openness and transparency.  read more »

UEA has issued a response to the various inquiries. The timing is odd, to say the least. Perhaps they’ve all been on holiday.  read more »

Climate scientists are to publish the largest ever collection of temperature records, dating back more than a hundred years, in an attempt to provide a more accurate picture of climate change.  read more »

The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes around a mighty elephant in the room, argues Christopher Booker.
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Of course, you can't have an egg that is partly bad, which is why the curate's egg came to mind when looking at this week's "independent" review of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by the InterAcademy Council (IAC).  read more »

Plantations on peatlands will no longer be supported by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a framework for industrialized countries to reduce their emissions via projects in developing countries, reports Wetlands International.  read more »