Carbon Footprints

Last night the team at Carbon Planet pushed out a significant update to the G3MS carbon accounting suite.

New features include

All Australian emissions factors have been updated to include the latest versions, as published by the Australian federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
One of the great features of G3MS is that you can [...]

Over the weekend Carbon Planet released an upgrade to its G3MS carbon accounting suite. G3MS is a fully functional multi-user, trans-corporate carbon accounting system, designed for both large corporate use, as a tool for accounting firms and sustainability consultants, and, in the form of G3MS Lite, a small business carbon accounting tool. G3MS’s [...]

Following on from my last post, Carbon Planet has made its own formal announcement of the VCSA approval of its IFM LtPF forestry carbon accounting methodology. The announcement goes into considerable detail about some of the specifics. What I am impressed by is that the methodology takes a ’systems view’ approach, and as a [...]

Carbon Planet is very excited to announce that the VCSA has approved our carbon accounting methodology for estimating the GHG reductions that come with transitioning a logged forest to a protected forest.
Why is this important?
Deforestation and land degradation contributes close to 1/5th of the world’s excess greenhouse gas emissions. Under business-as-usual the world loses [...]

Operation: Coolenation® is the primary school education resource that teaches the science of climate change to younger kids, and their teachers. In the video above, Operation: Coolenation programme manager, Pearl Tassell, introduces the programme.
Find out more from cooleantion.com, or check out the facebook page or follow @coolenation on Twitter. — DS

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Simon from Carbon Planet at the Carbon Markets Expo Stand at the Gold Coast
It’s Carbon Markets Expo time again at the Gold Coast and, as usual, Carbon Planet is there. I’m speaking today on the role of the Voluntary Carbon Markets if you happen to be passing the Gold Coast’s Convention Centre.
The Expo is [...]

Photo ‘Landing in London’ by Dave Sag and used with permission.
Carbon Planet has always been dedicated to openness and transparency. When dealing with a subject as complex as carbon, and the various ways and means by which emissions are calculated, we’ve always felt that the more information we can share with the world, the [...]

Reuters is reporting from Bonn saying “EU: Earth warming faster“.
Global warming is likely to overshoot a 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) rise seen by the European Union and many developing nations as a trigger for “dangerous” change, a Reuters poll of scientists showed on Tuesday.
Nine of 11 experts, who were among authors of the final [...]

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I am very excited to let you know that Carbon Planet is a finalist in the 2008 Australian Anthill Cool Company Awards! We were nominated in both the Social Capitalist category for Carbon Planet as a whole, and in the Commercial Creativity category for our primary school education programme, Operation: Coolenation. Amazingly we [...]