South Pole News

South Pole's Patrick Horka and Paul Butarbutar are speaking on methane avoidance and on biomass at ICOPB August 2-3. [July 26]

South Pole's Christian Dannecker is speaking at Seminario Nacional Vias de Ladera y Cambio Climatico en Colombia July 14. [July 13]

South Pole is Carbon Neutral Sponsor of 2010 Annual Meeting of the Business Council for Sustainable Development , which marks the first carbon neutral business event in Taiwan. [June 21]

1:0 for Carbon Neutrality: the climate-neutral swiss national team wins against Spain. Congrats from South Pole! [June 16]

UN selects a South Pole project to offset national soccer teams. Read more. [June 11]

BA Business Life on what penguins can teach us: Work like the animals. [June 9]

South Pole proudly presents their latest project videos: Travel with us to China, Thailand, or Indonesia!. [June 7]

South Pole headquarter welcomes The Hub Zurich for a networking evening on May 8. [June 4]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter is speaking at Carbon Credit Hellas opening ceremony, Athens, June 2. [May 31]

South Pole's Waqas Bin Najib is speaking at HVACR's Solar Energy Seminar, Islamabad, May 31. [May 30]

South Pole is Carbon Neutral Sponsor of FIMA 2010 in Bogota, June 2-5. Visit us at our stand! [May 27]

Meet South Pole's partners at Carbon Expo, Cologne. For an appointment please refer to media [at] southpolecarbon.com [May 25]

South Pole teams up with BanColombia to develop carbon mitigation projects in Colombia (press release) [May 19]

South Pole's Thomas Camerata will speak at 16th ICCI Conference on the importance of voluntary markets in turbulent times of negotiations on May 13 in Istanbul. [May 7]

South Pole's Jules Chuang spoke at The 4th Conference on Global Trends of Carbon Markets Post COP 15 on May 10 in Taipei. [May 6]

South Pole's Roman Schibli spoke on CO2 Handel - der neue Ablasshandel oder effizenter Mechanismus gegen den Klimawandel?
at BHSF-Werkstattgespräche in Zurich on May 4. [April 30]

South Pole's Alin Pratidina and Paul Butarbutar spoke on Gold Standard and VCS opportunities for geothermal plants at World Geothermal Congress 2010, held in Bali, Indonesia from April 25 - 30. [April 21]

South Pole's Jules Chuang spoke on Carbon Risk and Opportunity at Carbon Disclosure Forum in Taipei, April 13. [April 12]

ThomsonReuters on our fresh and new Hydro PoA in Indonesia:
South Pole has big hopes for small hydro in Indonesia [April 9]

South Pole is carbon neutral sponsor of Go Green 2010 – 40th Anniversary of Earth Day coordinated by Taiwan Environmental Information Association in Taipei, April 22. [March 22]

South Pole's Waqas Bin Najib spoke on CDM opportunities at 4th International Conference on Alternative Energy in Karachi, March 27 - 29. [March 24]

South Pole was carbon neutral sponsor of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in London, March 17 - 19. [March 8]

South Pole's Paul Butarbutar on registering a composting project as PoA. Read the full article here (Bahasa Indonesia only). [March. 1]

Meet South Pole staff at CMI Amsterdam! Head of Forestry Christian Dannecker will be speaking on REDD - New supply for whom? on March 3, 2 AM. Managing Partner Dr. Christoph Grobbel and Head of Sales Giulia Gervasoni will be hosting a side event on The voluntary market in the light of lacking political commitment on March 3, 11 AM. Francois Beaurain will be presenting a PoA case study on March 4, 9 AM. You have also the opportunity to meet Managing Partner Renat Heuberger. [March 1]

South Pole was carbon neutral sponsor of Carbon Markets Insights in Amsterdam, March 2 - 4. If you visited us at stand 83, first floor, you have probably tasted some Swiss penguin chocolate! [Feb. 22]

South Pole's Paul Butarbutar takes a critical look at Indonesian palm plantations (Interview in Point Carbon). Read the full article here. [Feb. 16]

UK Government chose South Pole as one of ten future suppliers to offset emissions resulting from Government air travel and potentially other emissions created by public sector organisations. Read their press release here. [Jan. 27]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger spoke at 6th Austrian JI/CDM Workshop: Harnessing the Potential of present and future Carbon Markets in Vienna from January 27.-29. [Jan. 25]

South Pole was the climate neutral sponsor of 29. Energy Efficiency Week in Istanbul taking place at WOW Convention Center İstanbul from January 13. [Jan. 8]

South Pole's Partners and Experts were attending COP15.
Download their schedule!. [Dec. 9]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger on Next level of the CDM: How can Public Private Partnerships enable Programmes of Activities (PoAs)?
Friday Dec. 18, 9 AM, side event at COP15, room Liv Weel. [Dec. 17]

South Pole's Alberto Carillo Pineda on The Future of Climate Forestation Projects , Saturday Dec. 12, 9 AM, side event at COP15. [Dec. 11]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger on Ensuring clean energy for poor households with CDM, voluntary markets and a post-2012 framework, Saturday Dec. 12, 8 AM, side event at COP15. [Dec. 11]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter hosted a side event on PoAs at COP15 on December 9, 2 AM. Carbon experts from Delhi, Düsseldorf, Geneva, and Zurich join via Cisco's high end TelePresence.
Participate via WebEx!. [Dec. 9]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter discussed with members of the Swiss delegation on December 10, 2 AM, live from COP15.
Participate via WebEx (in German)!. [Dec. 9]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter in an interview by NZZ Börse on new dynamics in the forefront of COP15. Watch the video here (in German). [Dec. 3]

South Pole is advising African governments aheead of COP15: South Pole's Guido Schmidt-Traub is supporting the Africa Progress Panel in launching an initiative to kick-start the African carbon markets by promoting CDM Programmes of Activities (PoAs). Practical recommendations are now available in their final paper. [Dec. 2]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter spoke on recent carbon market developments and expectations from COP15 in an interview by Swiss magazine Cash. Read the article (in German) and watch the video (in Swiss German) here. [Dec. 2]

Carbon neutral shipping of christmas gifts: Austrian Post, the leading provider of mail shipping services in Austria, is sending out half a million christmas parcels carbon neutrally – offset with certificates from a South Pole emission reduction project in Thailand. [Dec. 2]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger is featured in a Swiss TV reportage on the carbon markets. Economy magazine ECO accompanied Renat on a site visit to our flagship project Gunung Salak and to Jakarta office. Watch the video here (in Swiss German). [Nov. 30]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter on COP15: The situation of the carbon markets and expectations from the UN conference. Read the interview (in German) on Nachhaltigkeit.org. [Nov. 11]

South Pole is one of four providers selected to offset the U2 audience's travel emissions. The Live Nation U2 360 Tour has committed to reducing their environmental impact through a comprehensive reduction and offset strategy. In addition all fans and visitors are officially called for action as well.
Enjoy U2 - climate conscious with South Pole! [Nov. 10]

WWF Switzerland just chose South Pole as service provider for the development of Gold Standard projects worldwide. We are thankful for the confidence in our work and are looking forward to this promising collaboration! [Oct. 23]

South Pole's CEO Dr. Christoph Sutter is attending Summer Davos in Dalian, China, as one of WEF's Young Global Leaders. [Oct. 10]