... , it usually is. Such is the case with the aviation and travel industries’ use of carbon offsetting, or so says Justin Francis, founder of responsibletravel.com. Francis, whose company offers socially and environmentally conscious travel options, was one of the first British travel operators to jump onto the carbon offsetting bandwagon back in 2002.

BBC News 28 Nov 09; Consumer carbon offset schemes do not lead people to change their behaviour, the ... Such schemes involve individuals paying a premium for the emissions generated by certain choices, such as flying. The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance says offsetting has an impact, but governments must do more. Carbon offset schemes also cover things like choosing to ...

... climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1, ... dioxide (CO2) that we release into the atmosphere. We leave our carbon footprints both directly and indirectly, and the total of our environmental impact is the sum of all these contributions. The main contributors to our carbon footprint are: household electricity and heat, transport, ...

While at least one travel agency is ditching the notion of using carbon offsets for air travel, a prominent U.S.-based Internet booking agent still believes. Travelocity is using social media networking to promote carbon offsets for air travel, while offering free carbon offsets for the holidays. Travelocity has created a fan page on Facebook, where it

... Rica to offer travelers the option of traveling to a carbon neutral destination. The agreement, announced during the First International ... the tourism industry to share the costs of offering a carbon offsetting program to visitors while allowing tourism ... sources of income for Costa Rica, the effects of carbon emissions from the transportation industry, airlines in particular, have become of great ...

[I**] BBC News <i** alt="" height="1" width="1" /> Who pays and who gains from carbon offsetting? BBC News ... market as a whole", says Paul Dickinson, managing director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which gathers data on businesses environmental policies. ... and more » Click here to view the article.

... — is another voice in the growing criticism about the business of carbon and how it has failed to deliver promised reductions in greenhouse ... greenhouse gases rather than to change their ways. ‘Often, carbon offsetting schemes have very negative effects on local ... book contributes to a growing field of critics of carbon markets by highlighting several up-to-date examples of where the system ...

... offset schemes not only haven’t helped reduce carbon dioxide emissions to any degree, they might actually be encouraging companies ... contributions from more than 30 experts in the business of carbon. While carbon offsetting has become a multi-billion-pound global ... book contributes to a growing field of critics of carbon markets by highlighting several up-to-date examples of where the system ...

... number of times I have heard locals talk about carbon offsetting on one finger. They didn't need to: under the Kyoto ... reduction is worth slightly more than a 40% improvement in carbon intensity. A like-for-like deal seems to have been reached, even though China remains ... relative to the expansion of the economy. This could still means very significant carbon savings. The bad news is that China' ...

... BusinessGreen, Friday 6 November 2009 at 00:15:00 Lisa Ashford of EcoSecurities takes the temperature of the carbon offsetting sector and finds it in remarkably rude health despite the recession ... the somewhat doom-and-gloom outlook for the world's economy in 2009, EcoSecurities' recent Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey showed that green issues have remained high ...