Transcript Calculating GHG pt3 (Jeanne Ng)

Calculating Greenhouse Gases
Personal Choices
21st September 2010
HKCCF CDP Program on
Climate Change
Dr. Jeanne Ng
Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development
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Reviewing Your Lifestyle
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How we invest our
money
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Food
Clothing
Shelter
Travel
Products
Services
Leisure
Charity
Buy goods and services
that are socially and
environmentally
responsibly produced.
Buy from companies that
are CSR, etc.
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Reviewing Your Lifestyle
Necessities of Life
 Clothing
 Food & Drink
 Shelter
 Transport
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Some Emissions Calculators
WWF Climateers.Org
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www.Climateers.org is Hong Kong's personal climate change info
and action portal.
As Climateer, not only can you stay on top of the science and
happenings about global warming both in Hong Kong and worldwide,
our innovative carbon calculator, tailor-made for Hong Kong, can
also help you determine your personal carbon emissions. Once you
know your carbon footprint, you can identify areas in your life in
which you could reasonably reduce your emissions, slim down your
carbon figure to improve the health of the planet.
We'll direct you to low carbon products and connect you with the
growing mass of individuals, businesses and organizations who are
getting hip to the climate change crises.
(http://www.climateers.org/eng/change/index.htm )
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Some Emissions Calculators
Climate Care Calculator
 Clean up your CO2 emissions quickly and efficiently, just
by using one or more of our Carbon Calculators.
 For all your daily emissions, click through to our Car &
Home Calculator. There you can repair your impact on
global warming, by offsetting the CO2 you produce
driving your car(s) and heating and lighting your home.
 A return trip from London to New York for one
individual, generates more CO2 than driving a family car
for 3 months. Air travel is climate-costly, so offset your
aviation today using our Air Travel Calculator.
 Too busy to calculate your offsets? Then just go straight
to our new Fixed Offset Options where you'll find an
offset to fit every pocket.
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Some Emissions Calculators
Future Forests Carbon Calculator
 On this site you can 'neutralize' the contribution
you or your business makes to global warming.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are one of the
main causes of global warming. And we all
produce it from almost everything we do - from
running a business to boiling a kettle.
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Household Calculator
Flight Calculator
Travel Calculator
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Some Emissions Calculators
Ecological Footprint
 Sustainability means achieving satisfying lives
for all within the means of nature - now and in
the future. The extent to which we're using more
than nature can provide can be measured with the
Ecological Footprint. This information points us
to actions that can address fundamental
sustainability concerns, and it gives us a way to
measure our progress. Check it out and see how
you are doing. Happy?
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Some Emissions Calculators
Global Footprint
 Supports a sustainable economy by promoting the
Ecological Footprint, a tool that makes
sustainability measurable. We coordinate research
and develop methodological standards so that
decision makers have robust resource accounts to
ensure that we live within the Earth's budget.
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Some Emissions Calculators
Sustainable Table (USA)
 Has been developed to give you many
reasons to eat sustainably, but, ultimately,
only you can answer that question…
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Some Carbon Offset Programs
Which Are Credible?
 Many offset programs…just Google and you’ll see…
 Independent verification
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Official trading mechanisms: CDM, Chicago Climate Exchange,
etc.
Regulators: Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator, NSW
Government, etc.
Specialist Consultants: Green-e, Environmental Resources
Trust, etc.
Consultants: KPMG, Ernst & Young, etc.
The Gold Standard
CDM, JI and voluntary credits
(http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/index.php)
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Some Carbon Offset Programs
How Much Does It Cost?
As at 20 September 2010…
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Voluntary credits
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~ US$3 – 99 / ton CO2
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/car
bon_offset_wind_credits_carbon_red
uction.htm
Tradeable credits (CDM, JI, etc.)
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~ Euro 13 / ton CO2
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http://www.pointcarbon.com/
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Some Carbon Offset Programs
MyClimate
 "Sustainable Travel International now offers
MyClimate™, "a unique service that reduces greenhouse
gas emissions.
 Through the MyClimate™ program, travelers,
corporations, travel service providers, and academic
institutions can take concrete action to fight climate
change by investing in WWF-certified carbon offset
projects that help to neutralize the negative impacts of
their air and ground travel." They also have a " Travelers'
Philanthropy" program.
 Otherwise they have their own carbon calculator for
estimating the necessary offsets, and a choice of WWF
approved projects for your money
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Some Carbon Offset Programs
The Climate Trust
 Is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing
solutions to stabilize our rapidly changing climate
 The Climate Trust Offset Program invests funds received
from power plants, businesses, and individuals into
projects that offset their GHG emissions.
 The Program is aimed at "Large Emitters" (power plants
and the like), the "Donate-to-Offset Organizations
program" and a parallel program for employees of
cooperating organizations .
 Climate Trust is a US based non-profit, and the income
received from the various offers is invested into their
project portfolio which includes: energy efficiency,
renewable energy, cogeneration, transportation efficiency,
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and reforestation projects.
Some Carbon Offset Programs
The CarbonNeutral Company
 The CarbonNeutral Company (formerly Future Forests)
maintains a number of carbon offset and forestry projects,
and has its own range of Carbon Calculators to work out
your personal emissions.
 They also have a simple CarbonNeutral Citizen's program
which gives you an opportunity to make an annual
donation that will go at least part way to compensate for
your life style choices.
 In their cases the money received for charitable donations
has been directed, for the past three years, towards
Transparency International's Forestry Integrity Network,
which campaigns against bribery and corruption in
management and exploitation of the world's natural
resources.
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Some Carbon Offset Programs
Climate Care
 Climate Care offers organizations and individuals a way
to reduce their impact on global warming.
 It sells carbon offsets on the one hand while funding and
managing projects on the other.
 They also have an ingenious Fixed Offsets program which
allows you to pay by credit card for your calculated life
style emissions.
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Your Life, Your Choice
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There are many paths to sustainable living
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Can change lifestyles immediately
Can make changes incrementally
Begin making your choices today and
continue implementing them regularly
What we can do is do the best
we can every day…
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Sources & References
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Organizations/ Initiatives
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Communities by Choice
(www.CommunitiesbyChoic
e.org)
SocialFunds.com (Google
“socially responsible
investment” for more)
The Commons: Open
Society Sustainability
Initiative (www.ecoplan.org)
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Publications
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Thinking about forever –
a personal journey
(Communities by
Choice)
How we can save the
planet, Mayer Hillman
(with Tina Fawcett),
2004
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