Carbon Trading Broker Uses EBay to Offer Carbon Offsets Direct from Brazil
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.
“We are pleased to be working with Pop!Tech in an effort to enable individuals to offset their carbon footprint by purchasing tones (metric tons) resulting from the application of Ecologica Institute’s Social Carbon Fund Methodology” said emissions trading broker CantorCO2e’s co-CEO Josh Margolis. “Through their collective purchases, individuals are making a difference. The Pop!Tech listings on eBay Giving Works make it cost-effective and practical for people to buy just one, five, or more tonnes, and at a price that would otherwise be out of reach to ordinary consumers,” concluded Mr. Margolis.
CantorCO2e, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to the environmental markets, is providing the carbon trading brokerage services on one of the projects highlighted by the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative. Anyone can visit http://www.ebay.com/poptech to calculate their carbon emissions and purchase offsets.
Related Articles
