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Carbon Sponsoring

Direct Carbon Offset Pledges for Travel. Carbon Sponsoring. Alexander Bigazzi Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering June 10, 2009. Process & Objectives. Research carbon trading. Develop Idea. Objectives. Create tool. Evaluate tool.

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Carbon Sponsoring

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  1. Direct Carbon Offset Pledges for Travel Carbon Sponsoring Alexander Bigazzi Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering June 10, 2009

  2. Process & Objectives Research carbon trading Develop Idea Objectives Create tool Evaluate tool Carbon Sponsoring

  3. Outline $ CO2 Climate change mitigation and carbon trading Carbon Sponsoring Evaluation of the tool Conclusions Questions(stump the chump) Carbon Sponsoring

  4. Climate Change Mitigation What are we gonna do?!?

  5. GHG in the U.S. Carbon Sponsoring

  6. Life Cycle Assessment Souce: EPA, 2006 Carbon Sponsoring

  7. Strategies Carbon Sponsoring

  8. Tools Carbon Sponsoring

  9. Carbon Markets Carbon Sponsoring

  10. Path of Carbon Offsets Carbon Sponsoring

  11. Typical Offsets Projects Carbon Sponsoring

  12. Criticisms of Offsets Time lag Quality Control Administrative costs Equity “Indulgences” Greenwashing Carbon Sponsoring

  13. GREENWASHING Carbon Sponsoring

  14. Carbon Sponsoring A new idea in personal carbon trading

  15. Why Carbon Sponsoring? Personal trading options limited Education: footprint, reductions, trading Voluntary, non-monetary Connect emissions to offsets Active participation Avoid time lag Within social network Carbon Sponsoring

  16. CarbonSponsor.org Carbon Sponsoring

  17. CarbonSponsor.org Carbon Sponsoring

  18. Pledges OTHER Carbon Sponsoring

  19. Database Structure Carbon Sponsoring

  20. Study Period Results So, how’d it go?

  21. Website Traffic N=222 (9min avg) Carbon Sponsoring

  22. Feedback Results

  23. Conclusions Well, now what?

  24. Conclusions & Steps • Meets objectives • Facilitate reductions • Awareness of footprint, reductions, and trading • Online tool improvements • Promotion • Integrate with social networking sites • Future data source • Need more marginal carbon research • Unique role in climate change mitigation Carbon Sponsoring

  25. Thank you! Visit: www.CarbonSponsor.org!!! Acknowledgements Dr. Robert Bertini Faculty and staff of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Carbon sponsoring guinea pigs Awesome people who come to student presentations Question Time.

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