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Clean Energy Bank Could Generate 2 Million Jobs and Drive $2 Billion In Investment

By Tracey de Morsella on August 13, 2009 1 Comment Carbon, Center for American Progress, clean energy, clean energy bank, Clean Energy Deployment Administration, clean energy innovation, clean energy jobs, Clean tech, climate bill, climate policies, Climate Progress, Coalition for the Green Bank, EIA, energy deployment, energy efficiency, green bank, green collar jobs, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, incentives, Jake Caldwell, market-based pollution-reduction program, Obama, predictable price signal

The creation of a Green Bank will encourage a long overdue integrated and strategic approach to clean-energy innovation, efficiency, and deployment in the United States. In combination with Senate action on clean energy—legislation that provides incentives for the research, development, and deployment of clean-energy technologies, and a market-based pollution-reduction program that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and reinforces a predictable price signal on carbon—the Green Bank will open credit markets, motivate private business to invest again, and create good, clean-energy jobs here at home.

The Business Case for Carbon Offsetting

By Tracey de Morsella on July 27, 2009 Comments Off on The Business Case for Carbon Offsetting cap and trade scheme, capping emissions, Carbon, carbon emissions, carbon offsets, carbon offsetting, emission reductions, emissions, end-buyers, Guy Turner, investors, legislation, Market, New Energy Finance, offset, offsetting, offsetting companies, reputation, The Business Case for Carbon Offsetting, traders, voluntarily, voluntary activity, voluntary carbon markets

The market for voluntarily offsetting carbon emissions doubled between 2007 and 2008 to reach $700m. With forecasts suggesting that the market could double again to 2012 this new sector is now attracting the attention of more serious investors and traders, as well as more companies looking to offset their emissions. But despite all the excitement around these projections there has been no systematic analysis of where the demand in this new market will actually come from, if indeed at all. Nobody has stopped to ask the simple questions “why do organizations voluntarily offset their emissions?” “how much value do they get out of it”, and “when does carbon setting work and when doesn’t it work?“