Carbon Trading Broker Uses EBay to Offer Carbon Offsets
Published December 17th, 2007
Feeling like you’re leaving carbon footprints wherever you go? Point your browser to http://www.ebay.com/poptech and see how you can support a community based project aimed at encouraging the use of renewable fuels. Here, you can simultaneously calculate your carbon footprint and support an effort to switch a local ceramics industry to renewable fuels.
Through a cooperative effort between worldwide emissions trading broker CantorCO2e, non-profit Ecologica, the developer of the Social Carbon Methodology, and the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative, consumers can purchase carbon emission reductions through eBay Giving Works, eBay’s dedicated program for charity listings. The Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) from the Bandeira project listed on eBay Giving Works are purchased directly from Ecologica Institute, sponsor of a project in Brazil’s newest state, Tocantins. Encouraging the use of renewable fuels in local ceramic kilns alleviates pressure on the area’s forests, which play a vital role in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. The Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative offering on eBay Giving Works makes it easy for anybody with access to the web to make a difference.
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