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 [...]

In her first speech as Australian Prime Minister, the nation’s first female Prime Minister vowed to re-prosecute the case for a price on Carbon..
This is very encouraging news. Since the Rudd Government decided to shy-away from its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, it has been punished in the polls for its perceived spinelessness. [...]

We’ve updated Carbon Planet’s timeline video through to 1 May 2010. Enjoy — DS

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Clipping from the letter from the DCCEE
The Australian Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has officially re-certified Carbon Planet’s operations and services as being carbon neutral under the soon to expire Greenhouse Friendly™ programme.
We were the first carbon management company ever to have its operations and services awarded Greenhouse Friendly™ certification and today’s [...]

Carbon Planet’s primary schools programme, Operation:Coolenation® scored a visit yesterday from Mel Hawksley and Kim Oliver, two Bachelor of Education students from the University of South Australia, who wanted to experience first hand a day in the life of the Cooelnation project. They had this to say:
As University of South Australia students coming to [...]

Simon McCabe, Carbon Planet’s Queensland State Manager, gave the above speech the other day at a breakfast ever for Aged Care Queensland. Simon touches on the existing and forthcoming climate change legislation in Australia and makes the point that it doesn’t matter what you believe about climate change, the Carbon Economy is here already [...]

Carbon Planet is very excited to be supporting Earth Ride this year. On 28 March the city of Adelaide will be the scene of one of the largest gatherings of cyclists anywhere in the country. Indeed I doubt there is a better cycling city in Australia than Adelaide.
Earth Ride Adelaide 2010 is a [...]