Governing the carbon offset market

mvanbiene@wiley.com — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:53:16 -0700

Carbon offsets are produced and sold under the international climate change
regime (the United Nations Kyoto Protocol) and also within an expanding
voluntary offset market in which companies and individuals can voluntarily opt to
compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions. The volume of carbon produced
and consumed within compliance and voluntary markets has grown dramatically
in the last 5 years, raising a number of governance challenges. This Focus Article
gives an overview of the governance of the compliance and voluntary carbon offset

WIREs Climate Change

Detection and attribution of climate change: a regional perspective

sarahandrus — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:55:06 -0700

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report,
published in 2007 came to a more confident assessment of the causes of global
temperature change than previous reports and concluded that ‘it is likely that
there has been significant anthropogenic warming over the past 50 years averaged
over each continent except Antarctica.’ Since then, warming over Antarctica has
also been attributed to human influence, and further evidence has accumulated
attributing a much wider range of climate changes to human activities. Such

WIREs Climate Change

WIREs Climate Change

Governing the carbon offset market

Detection and attribution of climate change: a regional perspective