The International Emissions Trading Association has released a whitepaper with recommendations on carbon offset policy in relation to a forthcoming US federal cap-and-trade program. The paper describes how an offset program should be designed to maximize the benefits that offsets can provide to any climate regulatory framework.

The white paper is available here.

Kevin Whilden from Climos was one of the co-authors along with Aimee Barnes from Ecosecurities and David Hunter from IETA.

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An overview of ocean iron fertilization (OIF) was covered in the IETA 2007 Greenhouse Gas Market report, released during the recent Bali Conference of the Parties (COP 13). The overview, provided by Climos, covers technical aspects of OIF relating to standard industry GHG accounting protocols, environmental questions that have been raised and recent developments in the field.

Climos also gave an overview of  OIF in a side session co-sponsored by IETA during the Bali Conference.

The full IETA report can be downloaded here.

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