What is carbon credit and how to reduce it?
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Carbon credits as defined by Kyoto Protocol are one metric ton of carbon emitted by the burning of fossil fuels.\n\nOrganizations such as Rainforest Credits and Tropical Sierra are working in conjunction with universities all over the world to build an online information database known as the Rainforest Encyclopedia for businesses and industries to research and calculate what they need to invest in to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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REDUCE YOUR IMPACT AT HOME\n\nMost emissions from homes are from the fossil fuels burned to generate electricity and heat. By using energy more efficiently at home, you can reduce your emissions and lower your energy bills by more than 30%.\n\nIn addition, since agriculture is responsible for about a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, you can reduce your emissions simply by watching what you eat. \n\nHere’s how:\n\nReplace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)\nCFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds! You can purchase CFLs online from the Energy Federation. \n\nMove your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer\nAlmost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has more tips for saving energy on heating and cooling.\n\nClean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner \nCleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.\n\nREDUCE YOUR IMPACT WHILE ON THE MOVE\n\nAlmost one third of the carbon dioxide produced in the United States comes from our cars, trucks and airplanes. Here are some simple, practical things you can do to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you produce while on the move.\n\nReduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible\nAvoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year! Click here to find transit options in your area.\n\nStart a carpool with your coworkers or classmates\nSharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free national service connecting commuters and travelers.\n\nKeep your car tuned up\nRegular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.\n\nCheck your tires weekly to make sure they’re properly inflated \nProper inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference!\n\nHELP BRING ABOUT CHANGE LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY\n\nYour actions to reduce global warming can extend beyond how you personally reduce your own emissions. We all have influence on our schools, workplaces, businesses, and on society through how we make purchases, invest, take action, and vote. Here are some ways you can have a positive effect on global warming.\n\nEncourage your school or business to reduce emissions\nYou can extend your positive influence on global warming well beyond your home by actively encouraging other to take action. Download our toolkits for schools and businesses to take action outside of your home.\n\nJoin the virtual march\nThe Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to bring all Americans concerned about global warming together in one place. Add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of other Americans urging action on this issue.\n\nEncourage the switch to renewable energy\nSuccessfully combating global warming requires a national transition to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. These technologies are ready to be deployed more widely but there are regulatory barriers impeding them. Take action to break down those barriers with Vote Solar.\n\nProtect and conserve forest worldwide\nForests play a critial role in global warming: they store carbon. When forests are burned or cut down, their stored carbon is
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Big one for credit, conserve your cash.
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Well you can start by adjusting your lifestyle and joining an advocacy group in your area that promotes cleaner living. Everything we do causes pollution but there are newer consumer technologies now that will help you reduce your ecological footprint.
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Carbon exists in all organic organisms and forms the basis for all life on Earth.  Carbon is the key element in the carbon cycle, which includes among other things, carbon dioxide, a necessary greenhouse gas.  Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is thought to contribute to global warming.
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If you are doing it in a laboratory setting, you can mix it with carbon and reduce it to the metal. You will need high temperatures, though.
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In rather indirect ways, yes.\nRecycling paper helps save trees (recycle a little bit, save "part" of a tree) which convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.  (Carbon dioxide contributes to the greenhouse affect)\nMy driving style is geared around saving gas.  Mostly to save myself money, but even if I become very wealthy, I'm still going to be a bit conservative in my driving- still gonna get a hybrid, albeit a more powerful one.  Save gas, less emissions into atmosphere that contribute to global warming.\nOne person can't stop global warming alone.  However, each person can help a little bit, and it'll all add up.
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Ultimately, photosynthesis is a reduction. One starts with carbon dioxide and reduces it through many steps to sugars and thence to cellulose and so on. The net result of all these steps is to reduce the number of carbon and oxygen bonds to a smaller number.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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the reduction of CO2 this is need the less the badly it il be and the higher the better it'll get
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I drive, as I do not individually pay the price of carbon emissions, and I can't stop the rest of you.\n\nI go to McD'.s and get Extra paper because it conveniences me \nand I do not again pay the full price.\n\nI take long hot rich person showers at the Univ. complex where I live {I bet we all do} because I don't pay the full gas bill.\n\nSelfish huh?\n\nWhat is that author's name?\nGarret
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With all due respect, I am not sure if you understand how carbon trading works.  \n\nSome nations that comply with the Kyoto Treaty distribute the right to have a certain amount of emissions.  The classic example is the power industry, which commonly burns fuel-oil or coal to generate electricity.  Different plants have different carbon emission levels depending upon their fuel type, efficiency of the plant and recaputre systems (e.g. CO2 scrubbers).\n\nIn this case, a power plant would be give some carbon emission rights, which they can use up by generating electricity (and the resulting pollution) or not generating electricity and selling the excess carbon emission right to somebody else.  The exchange (e.g. LSE, Chicago Board) want to be the clearing house for the emission rights.  \n\nWhile I applaud your green thinking, you as an agricultural farmer, would not come into the carbon trading equation.
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a compound contaning carbon
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Climate is affected by a number of sources such as where your location is to the equator, the earths rotation, etc. Long term changes are taking place very slowly due to human activities (gases, deforestation, soil erosion etc) and need to be addressed on a global level to prevent further changes. Increased gases in the atmosphere cause heating...and deforestation and decrease of plant life means that many of the carbons are not being used - so they continue to increase in the atmosphere causing changes. \nThere is no way to "stop" it, just slow it by us being more energy efficient, stop creating so much pollution...\nYou can somewhat effect microclimates - a local area that is changed because of large cities, large mountains etc - but not really hard to do intentionally - it's done over time as something builds up and disturbs the existing temp.\n\nWhew...that was a long one.
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In short, Carbon Dioxide, currently being blamed for global warming is the product of burning Carbon based fuels like methane, and also petrolium based fuels.  \n\nCarbon Dioxide (CO2) is also taken out of the air by plants, algae, and bacteria that perform photosynthesis, and is added to a sugar like molecule to produce glucose (a sugar).  The plant or bacteria then uses the glucose for fuel or stores it as starch.  \n\nWe are producing CO2 so fast that plants and algae are not taking it out of the atmosphere as fast as it is being produced.  The extra gas contributes to global warming and climate change.  The excess CO2 also may result in the future in massive increases of photosynthetic algae and bacteria which also could be bad for the oceans, having side effects such as killing all of the fish in the ocean if we are not lucky.
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Carbon dioxide is food for plants, more CO2, more assimilation.
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Form a corporation.  Then apply for credit.