LONG BEACH – Does money grow on trees? Some Long Beach council members want to find out. A proposal to be introduced Tuesday to the City Council asks to determine the feasibility of selling carbon credits potentially produced by Long Beach’s 393,000-tree urban forest to help defray the multimillion dollar annual cost of tree trimming. [...]

BP plc to offset Team USA Olympic and Paralympic carbon emissions Details Published on Monday, 06 August 2012 10:19 Written by Zarina de Ruiter Those who are traveling to London are encouraged to offset their travel, at no cost, through the not-for-profit programme. The US Olympic Committee (USOC) and BP plc (NYSE:BP) have announced that [...]

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – For the first time, ASAE is partnering with American Forests to plant a tree for every person who attends the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting Exposition, August 11-14. This effort, part of American Forests’ new Meeting ReLeaf program, will offset the carbon footprint of the meeting and augment ASAE’s broader [...]

Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:49am EDT * Kansai’s CO2 emissions rise to 65.69 mln tonnes * Kansai offset 16 pct more emissions with U.N. CO2 credits By Risa Maeda TOKYO, July 24 (Reuters) – Kansai Electric Power Co.’s carbon dioxide emissions surged by 40 percent in the year ending March 2012 from a year earlier [...]