CarbonCounted News

CarbonCounted congratulates our partner in New Zealand, Sempre Avanti for being awarded a trophy by the UN Environmental Programme CN-Net for being one of the first 100 participants in the Climate Neutral Network.

“Launched a year ago with an initial four countries, four cities and five companies, the CN Net today brings together a wide range of participants, including countries big and small, some of the world’s best-known cities, major international companies, UN agencies and leading NGOs. These first 100 participants – the CN Net Centurion – were honoured at the 25th session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Programme meeting this week in Nairobi, Kenya.

UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said: “The Climate Neutral Network was born in response to the growing need to federate the many bold and inspiring initiatives being taken the world over to address the global climate change challenge and embrace the opportunity to ‘de-carbonize’ our economies and societies.”

Mon 2 Mar 2009

Show the CarbonConnect login on your Website

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If you would like to have a login to CarbonConnect on your own website, use the following code (within <html> and <body> tags):

Mon 2 Feb 2009

Greenhouse Gas Planning & Management Course by Pinchin Environmental

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Course Summary:

This course does not have a pre-requisite. It will prepare you to independently assess your carbon footprint and develop your own GHG management plan.

We will focus on the most widely used international accounting protocols (the GHG Protocol and ISO14064-1) for quantifying and managing GHG emissions. You will also learn about greenhouse gases and their effect on the environment and international efforts to reduce GHG emissions. The course specifically outlines the Canadian Government’s current activities in this area and assist businesses in preparing for potential mandatory and voluntary programs.

At the end of this course, you will be able to develop your company’s GHG management plan, quantify, report and verify your total greenhouse gas emissions.

Time: 8:30 – 4:30

Cost: $595 per person (plus GST)

Location: Pinchin Environmental Head Office – 2470 Milltower Court, Mississauga (Map)

How to Register: Register on our “Greenhouse Gas Planning and Management” web page: http://www.pinchin.com/ghg-course. There is a “Select this Course” link beside each date. Simply chose the one you wish to attend and follow the instructions. We will confirm your registration within 48 hours.

Further Information:

For additional directions, registration information or details, please contact our Ontario Courses Desk: http://www.pinchin.com/courses/contact/ontario

Thu 29 Jan 2009

CarbonCounted Project with OCAD

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CarbonCounted is very pleased to have the support of a 4 week marketing project by The Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). We appreciate this assistance and support!

A package of documents for the students is available here.

Tue 20 Jan 2009

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra [NZSO] completes its first GHG emissions inventory using CarbonCounted

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NZSO is a socially responsible orchestra. The aim of undertaking an initial GHG emissions inventory was to conduct an initial base year emissions measurement and to develop goals and aspirations that the NZSO could set, related to its environmental sustainability platform. (more…)

Sat 10 Jan 2009

Sustainable Waterloo

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Sustainable Waterloo is proud to present its first Educational Breakfast Forum featuring a talk by Dr. Homer-Watson. For more details see their site.

Sustainable Waterloo is a not-for-profit organization that guides corporations in Waterloo Region towards a more environmentally sustainable future by facilitating collaboration between industry, local government, educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations.

Sun 16 Nov 2008

British Standards Institute (BSi) PAS 2050 Launched

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The PAS 2050 standard has been officially launched. Read more about it: (more…)

Tue 16 Sep 2008

“Rival” Carbon Labelling Standard Article

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An interesting article in mid-summer 2008 was posted on businessgreen.com:

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/analysis/2219847/rival-carbon-labeling-standards (more…)

Sun 24 Aug 2008

More Details on Japanese Carbon Labelling

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This article outlines Japan’s plan to put carbon labels on a select range of products in 2009.

Sun 24 Aug 2008

New Bangkok Carbon Label Initiative

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An interesting labelling initiative is being examined by the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organisation, which would label based on reductions, and not use the actual carbon footprint data.

Review the article here. (more…)

Tue 8 Jul 2008

Sapporo Breweries puts carbon label on beer

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Sapporo Breweries have announced that they will print on the beer can labels how much CO2 is emitted per can from growing the barley, brewing, producing the aluminum cans, and delivery. Other labeling projects have been announced by supermarkets in the UK and Sweden, but this may be the first time a major corporation provides CO2 emmission data directly to consumers. Sapporo will use ISO 14040 Life Cycle Analysis Standard. (more…)

Thu 3 Jul 2008

Forum for the Future’s “Check-out Carbon” Project

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Forum for the Future has published an article analyzing the role of carbon labelling in carbon reductions. (more…)

Fri 6 Jun 2008

Major Upgrade to CarbonConnect

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CarbonCounted announces a major upgrade to the CarbonConnect system.

“Version 2.0 is a huge step forward in ease of use and increased functionality. CarbonConnect 2.0 has additional site/company/auditor control access levels, additional reporting tools, and the creation of CarbonConnect Lite view screens which are excellent for multi user projects” says co-founder Steve Cox. (more…)

Wed 4 Jun 2008

Climate Rehab

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Climate Rehab is a campaign to encourage individuals and organisations to tackle climate change by becoming climate positive. Climate Rehab offers free certification for organizations that have reduced their emmissions and offset in excess of their emmissions.

Tue 20 May 2008

US GHG Emissions Fall by 1.1%

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Source: US EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
Published Apr. 16, 2008

The US Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent from the previous year. (more…)

Tue 22 Apr 2008

Earth Day Reading – Ecoholic

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In the spirit of Earth Day, we’re recommending Ecoholic as a source of good reading. Adria Vasil’s blog on the Now Magazine website highlights eco issues and provides refreshing tips on reducing your carbon footprint.

Sat 5 Apr 2008

Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA)

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The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) is a partnership between companies, NGOs and research institutes seeking to promote integrated solutions to land management around the world. With this goal in mind, the CCBA has developed voluntary standards to help design and identify land management projects that simultaneously minimize climate change, support sustainable development and conserve biodiversity.

Mon 31 Mar 2008

Canadian Biogas Association

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Canadian Biogas Association is a site for those interested in generating energy from ‘throw-aways’ [manures from livestock operations, residuals from the food industry like cereal husks, leftovers and 'spoils' from the beverage and bakery industry, etc., etc., etc.] According to this site, about 60 percent of this waste is organic and could be processed to energy, fertilizer and sequestered carbon reducing the carbon dioxide [CO2] emitted to the atmosphere.

Fri 21 Mar 2008

Earth Hour Sat Mar 29, 2008

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On Friday March 29, 2008 at 8pm, join cities around the world in literally “turning out the lights” for Earth Hour, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) event to raise awareness about climate change and symbolize that, working together the people of the world can make a difference in the fight against global warming. Officially announced in December 2007 at the United Nations Climate Change meeting, Earth Hour has grown from a single event in Sydney, Australia in 2007 to a global phenomenon that will occur across six continents and as many as 20 cities in 2008.

Toronto will be the flagship city in Canada to commemorate Earth Hour 2008. Our goal is to get thousands of businesses and individuals to participate in this historic event, so we can show the nation and the world that we are leaders in addressing climate change, one of the most critical issues facing our world today.

Visit www.wwf.ca/EarthHour to sign-up and add your name to the Earth Hour movement.

Fri 21 Mar 2008

A Carbon Label for California

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CarbonCounted supports the efforts of A Carbon Label for California in working towards legislation to support a voluntary product based carbon labeling system. Please see the draft California State legislation as introduced by Member Ruskin. We hope that governments and businesses see that voluntary product carbon labeling is a mature science and can be accomplished inexpensively, quickly, accurately, and transparently. CarbonCounted further advocates using an open, publicly accessible system (such as CarbonConnect) to track and connect the businesses in a product’s supply chain.

Tue 4 Mar 2008

Environmental Conferences Link

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Planetfriendly.net is pleased to announce the launch of the
Canadian Green and Environmental Conferences Calendar.
http://www.planetfriendly.net/calendar/?list=environmental-conferences-in-canada

Tue 4 Mar 2008

ElementSix becomes CarbonConnect

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In anticipation of a major upgrade to our ElementSix web application in March 2008, our launch framework name “ElementSix” has been renamed “CarbonConnect”.

Thu 24 Jan 2008

Loblaws Shows Interest in Carbon Labels

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This article was in the Report on Business section of the Globe and Mail in January 2008.

Globe and Mail Article

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