{"id":2391,"date":"2009-12-20T07:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2009-12-20T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:56:51","slug":"ets-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/20\/ets-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"ETS hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emissions_trading\">emissions trading<\/a> scheme comes into play, I&#8217;m considering setting up a non-profit with the sole purpose of buying and holding carbon credits &#8211; so that every dollar donated will effectively reduce the overall carbon cap.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a good way to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get around governments setting inadequate carbon emissions targets and caps. (Which seems much more likely than not.)<\/li>\n<li>Further stimulate companies that produce carbon offsets or are more carbon neutral. (Since they could sell their credits at a higher price).<\/li>\n<li>Offer a better way for individuals to reduce overall carbon emissions when compared to purchasing carbon offsets. (Since buying up credits forces major polluters to reduce their emissions).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Unfortunately, the cynical side of me says that if this approach were to really take off, it will just lead to governments issuing more credits when businesses complain.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an emissions trading scheme comes into play, I&#8217;m considering setting up a non-profit with the sole purpose of buying and holding carbon credits &#8211; so that every dollar donated will effectively reduce the overall carbon cap. This seems like a good way to: Get around governments setting inadequate carbon emissions targets and caps. (Which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/20\/ets-hacking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ETS hacking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-Cz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}