Technology and manufacturing group Honeywell is destroying inventories of ozone-depleting refrigerants amounting to more than 125,000 emission reduction credits that it intends to sell to third parties as part of California’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. The company said it had previously destroyed more than 27,000 pounds of CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant, and it plans to [...]

NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Measuring up WOMAD NZ’s Carbon Footprint WOMAD New Zealand 2012 is extending its commitment to the environment this year with a project to measure and offset the carbon footprint of WOMAD. Leonard Cohen of Canopy, an organisation specialising in measuring and managing carbon dioxide emissions, believes it is the first [...]

WOMAD New Zealand 2012 is extending its commitment to the environment this year with a project to measure and offset the carbon footprint of WOMAD. Leonard Cohen of Canopy, an organisation specialising in measuring and managing carbon dioxide emissions, believes it is the first time a carbon footprint assessment has been made of a music [...]

Swiss Post is turning its domestic letter services “carbon neutral” from 1st April, suggesting that the move effectively counters the argument that electronic communications are better for the environment. Switzerland’s national postal operator said today that it plans to offset all carbon dioxide emissions associated with the transportation of all addressed domestic letters. Swiss Post [...]