carbon credits
description: certificates that allow the holder to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, often traded as part of emissions reduction schemes
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We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
to nearly $2 billion in asset confiscations.” Planet also maps carbon stocks and biodiversity hot spots, which is creating new markets for ecosystem services via carbon credits and biodiversity offsets. “Half the world’s GDP depends on nature,” says Marshall. “We’ve wiped out 70 percent of the planet’s biodiversity in
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
qualified to handle this project? What medical skills does our hospital have on staff? Who performed what type of surgery with what outcomes? How many carbon credits has this company saved? Which suppliers have experience in China? What subcontractors delivered on time and on budget according to their smart contracts? The results
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cap-and-trade system on an industrial scale. Efficient pricing algorithms compute credits and debits in real time, and green organizations capture and track their carbon credits on the ledger and roll them into an exchange. What if we created a cap-and-trade system for people? Surely we need more than
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the Internet of Things. Sensors, detectors, and instrumentation would measure your water heater, dishwasher, and household thermostat in real time and inform you of your carbon credits balance. At the same time, you could earn credits by acting in practical, sustainable ways. If you added an array of solar panels to your
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 words
a fiction: no one is ever going to exchange their terras for actual, physical delivery—on their doorstep—of the prescribed combination of oil, grain, carbon credits, pork bellies, iron ingots, and whatever else is on the list. No single person ever needs any of these things in his personal possession. Their
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, create, and preserve: by undeveloped land, clean water and air, great works of art and architecture, biodiversity and the genetic commons, unused development rights, unused carbon credits, uncollected patent royalties, relationships not converted into services, and natural resources not converted into goods. Even, indeed, by gold still in the ground. Not only
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other tradable emissions allowances.3 Although such systems have borne mixed results in practice (sulfur dioxide ceilings have been relatively successful, while the EU’s carbon credits have been a disaster), in principle they allow us to implement a collective agreement on how much is enough. “Enough” depends on the capacity of
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
companies argued the destruction of the eco-system of business. Financial considerations exculpated one of the biggest environmental disasters in history. Bankers proposed creating tradable carbon credits to combat climate change. The credits would give businesses the right to pollute up to a specified level. The real driver was that banks could
What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale · 23 May 2011 · 397pp · 112,034 words
than hiking marginal income tax rates on Americans earning over $250,000 per annum. It abandoned proposals to introduce a cap-and-trade program for carbon credits. It will instead attempt to regulate carbon emissions through actions by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Republican victory could allow progress on one type of
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words
for the distribution of food vouchers. The proposed uses ranged from tracking the movements of goods through supply chains to combatting blood diamonds and recording carbon credits. These types of groups were not interested in the fringe political philosophies that circulated in the core crypto circles. They were practical political centrists looking
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up, 22–5 core vs. periphery, 28, 248 giant parable, 54–5, 63–4, 188 growth, 123, 126–7, 249 surveillance, 33, 114, 180, 250 carbon credits, 222 CARE, 131 cargo cults, 255–6 Caritas, 131 carnivals, 257 cars, 87–90 cash, 22, 29–48 banking sector and, see banking sector banknotes
Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection
by Kevin Morrison · 15 Jul 2008 · 311pp · 17,232 words
that carbon could become the biggest commodity market of all. Voluntary Schemes As mentioned, there are now voluntary carbon offset schemes, where conscientious consumers buy carbon credits. Funds are then invested in forestry schemes, which mean planting more trees or looking after existing ones. But voluntary schemes are not regulated and they
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solar panels, put a wind turbine on the roof, sell the car and wear more clothes around the house in winter – or they can purchase carbon credits via carbon brokers such as The CarbonNeutral Company, Climate Care and co2balance.com to offset their carbon footprint. Despite some confusion in how these different
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-Tension talked to Bettelheim about their experience in Mulu, and the Chicago-born lawyer turned to his fellow CLIMATE | 147 American, Sandor, to devise forestry carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol. The discussions led to the launch of Sustainable Forestry Management, which includes Guy Weston – the biggest shareholder in Associated British Foods
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focus on forests as a carbon sink comes at a time when there are more specialist investment companies owning forests for both timber production and carbon credits. In addition, timber companies are signing up to sustainable forestry development programmes to ensure that there is not an overexploitation of forests (although this is
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area in Africa, Brazil, Australia and the United States. New Forests has forestry assets in Australia, CLIMATE | 149 New Zealand and the US to earn carbon credits. The Swiss-based Precious Woods owns and manages forests in Latin America and Gabon in Africa. Then there are timber plantation investors looking to earn
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carbon credits on top of their timber business, such as The Lyme Timber Company in the US and Four Winds Capital Management, which raised $500 million through
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the developed world and CO2 reduction initiatives in the developing world (that do not have their own cap-and-trade schemes). CDM approved projects earn carbon credits known as Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) that can be traded for permits in the EU scheme, the Chicago voluntary market and other emissions markets subject
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to Kyoto obligations. There is also a scheme for developed countries to earn carbon credits from cleaner energy projects, known as Joint Implementation (JI). For instance, under both schemes, a company that emits 20 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per
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of Deferred Mitigation (CDM) The CDM is one of the main ways for polluters to offset their emissions in excess of their allowances to buy carbon credits through the 152 | LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD CDM that are registered and approved by the CDM board. In his report on the CDM process
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and stays in the atmosphere for more than a century. The abatement of HCFC-22 and N2 O accounts for more than half of the carbon credits transacted under the CDM between 2002 and 2006 (Capoor and Ambrosi, 2007). Carbon Sinks Forests are carbon sinks in the natural environment. Today, technology is
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in manure lagoons. Philip Sundblad, the corn farmer and district director of Iowa Farm Bureau, said farmers in Iowa can earn additional income from generating carbon credits – mainly by not doing any tillage – which they can then sell on the Chicago Climate Exchange. The exchange also accepts credits generated from agricultural methane
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-and-trade systems 138–40, 143, 172 n. 23 carbon capture and storage (CCS) 152–3 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, The 176 n. 50 carbon credits 154 carbon dioxide 25–6, 27, 129, 131–2, 170 n. 8, 170 n. 9, 170 n. 10 trading 137, 138–9, 140, 144 carbon
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and Agricultural Organization 148, 159 Ford, Bill 267 Ford, President Gerald 30, 115 Ford, Henry 73, 95, 195 Fordlandia 195 forest economics 149–50 forestry carbon credits 147 forests 147–51 Forrest, Andrew 199 Forward Contracts (Regulations) Act 1952 (US) 249 Forward Markets Commission (FMC) 249 Four Winds Capital Management 149, 159
Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business
by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words
and creates a VC that can be used later for a number of transactions, including logging into an HSBC account, purchases, applying for a loan, carbon credits and much more. This HSBC ID could draw on any number of identity issuers, from government agencies and credit bureaus to telcos and utilities. With
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doesn’t need to be an existing customer of KBC to use the service, making it a very smart customer acquisition tool also. Case study: carbon credits One area in which this distinction between tokens and VCs is becoming helpfully clear is in the voluntary and compliance carbon markets. The carbon markets
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allow carbon emitters to offset their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by purchasing carbon credits created by projects targeted at removing or reducing GHG emissions. In some markets, allowances can be sold – such as in the EU Emissions Trading System
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also acts as a coordination tool to produce ‘auditable, traceable, and reproducible records that document the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) process and lifecycle of carbon credits’, and it enables their retirement when claims are made on the public ledger. Hedera’s vision is that organizations delivering carbon projects will deploy their
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September 2023 ALLCOT IO, the digital arm of established climate leader and project developer ALLCOT, undertook to onboard ALLCOT’s 500 million tonne portfolio of carbon credits to the Guardian ecosystem (Geisenberger 2023). Alongside the carbon tokens that it mints, Guardian publishes a ‘trustchain’ of signed data as VCs to allow independent
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Apple’s Vision Pro really for? Harvard Business Review, 1 October (https://tinyurl.com/22ua373j). Geisenberger, W. (2023). ALLCOT onboards 500 million metric tonnes of carbon credits with the Hedera Guardian. Report, 13 November, HBar Foundation (https://tinyurl.com/ywpkvju4). George, N., Dryja, T., and Narula, N. (2023). A framework for programmability
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen · 4 Apr 2011 · 1,088pp · 228,743 words
increasingly diverse. It includes infrastructure, timber, and farmland; art and other collectibles (fine wines, rare coins, stamps); and more novel securities such as catastrophe bonds, carbon credits, intellectual property rights, viatical or life insurance settlements, longevity swaps, and others. If hedge funds can be characterized as an asset class, then the list
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier · 6 May 2013 · 510pp · 120,048 words
How Great Are Our Powers? Waiting for Technology Waiting for Politics What Can We Do About Big Data and the Reality Problem? Carbon Copies Ruin Carbon Credits How Fighting “Fraud” Might Also Fight “Scams” Feeding the Frenetic Mind of the Networked Person It’s All in the Timing The Treachery of Toys
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technology should create a persistent expansion of markets by monetizing more and more information, enshrining the potential for non-zero-sum thinking. Carbon Copies Ruin Carbon Credits If economics were perfect, then human activity would be aligned with human interests—or at least that ideal is the only imaginable one for economics
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sources of illusion that might distance economic motivations from reality. I suspect that Sirenic effects are already creating illusions that dilute the potential benefits of carbon credits, for example. Such credits are one approach to making markets rally to fundamental needs—as opposed to random projects like building empty suburbs. The very
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is based on a feedback model that is fast enough to be relevant to one’s decisions. Long-term global outcomes are not fast enough. Carbon credits attempt to bridge that gap. However, in the context of today’s dysfunctional, one-sided networked finance, there is a risk that catastrophic speculation and
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overwhelm the original purpose, should those credits become more widely used. On the other hand, absent those scams, carbon credits will have a hard time gaining traction. Governments can introduce exceptional mechanisms like carbon credits, but these don’t seem to rise to the forefront of investment strategies in their own right. The reason
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why is that “scammy” investments offer better returns, and for carbon credits to compete, they’d have to become scammy, too, but they benefit from too many altruistic guardians to allow that to happen. Therefore, the prominence
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and influence of carbon credits are limited. How Fighting “Fraud” Might Also Fight “Scams” Exotic and experimental ideas in finance are not necessarily scammy. Betting on the climate has a
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bet that the improvement of reality couldn’t keep up with the supernatural and extrahuman realm of “something from nothing.” They are the opposite of carbon credits. Feeding the Frenetic Mind of the Networked Person So, one potential benefit of retiring Siren Servers is to make room for investments like
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carbon credits. But there is another network idea for addressing climate change that might also work, based on the way networking feels. Networking feels like a game.
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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
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The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management
by Reuvid, Jonathan. · 30 Oct 2011
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by Richard Watson · 1 Jan 2008
The Making of Global Capitalism
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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
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