Carbon offset schemes should be formally accredited to allow consumer confidence

Carbon offset schemes should be formally accredited, according to tourism lobby group Tourism and Transport Forum, wrote Melissa Ketchell in The Courier Mail (8/10/2007, p.33).

By 2012, Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, will require carbon labelling on all the products it sells so that shoppers can compare carbon costs

According to Randy Stringer and Mike Young of the University of Adelaide, trading in carbon offsets is now a billion-dollar global industry, reported The Advertiser (8/8/2007, p. D20).