The upcoming Sochi 2014 Olympics will be the first in history to achieve carbon neutrality, according to a recent announcement by The Dow Chemical Company, the Official Carbon Partner for the Games. This includes carbon footprints associated with the travel of athletes, spectators and media from all over the world traveling to Russia for the Olympic and Paralympics Winter Games, between February and March 2014 — amounting to roughly 160,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
Condor Travel se suma a la lista de empresas peruanas comprometidas con la conservación de nuestra Amazonía, mediante la adquisición de bonos de carbono generados en dos áreas naturales protegidas ubicadas en el departamento de Madre de Dios: la Reserva Nacional Tambopata y el Parque Nacional Bahuaja Sonene.
Con la suscripción del convenio, los visitantes nacionales y extranjeros tendrán la oportunidad de compensar la huella de carbono que genera el traslado desde su lugar de origen hasta nuestro país; teniendo en cuenta que en un promedio de cinco días un turista puede generar una emisión de 0,7 toneladas de carbono.
The U.N. panel overseeing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) wants to cut the budget for administering the scheme by 14.2 percent next year amid fears its pipeline of carbon-cutting projects in the developing world will dry up.
The CDM has helped to channel more than $315 billion in climate finance to help poor nations cut emissions of greenhouse gases but faces a slowdown next year, the CDM’s Executive Board said in its report of last week’s meeting published late on Friday. Sigue leyendo
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