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2012


South Pole Carbon's Ana Teroba in an interview with Water Technology on small hydro opportunities in Latin America. [January 12]

First ever geothermal Gold Standard VERs, issued by our Dora II project in Turkey. [January 4]

2011


Swiss Sunday paper NZZ am Sonntag on South Pole Carbon, Indian biomass projects, and the CDM. [December 18]

Schwab Foundation's image video on South Pole Carbon: Watch it here. [December 19]

Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger were awarded Swiss Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2011 in a festive ceremony held at Forum St. Peter, Zurich, by Schwab Foundation. [December 14]

Renat Heuberger is speaking on Schweizer Energiewende: Eine Chance für Startup Unternehmen, moderated by Maximilian Horster, at Club of Rome in Basel, December 9. [December 4]

Renat Heuberger is speaking on PoA, a way of scaling up the CDM at COP17 IETA side event in Durban, December 8. [December 7]

Ingo Puhl is speaking on Scaling Up Mitigation Actions at COP17 IETA side event in Durban, December 8. [December 7]

Climate Credit Card business:Carbon neutral daily business, with no extra cost or effort for your enterprise – Swiss corporate credit card holders can enjoy an automated offsetting of their spendings. [December 5]

Renat Heubergeris presenting our latest carbon neutral solution at COP17 in Durban, December 6. [December 5]

Ana Teroba is speaking at Small Hydro – Latin America in Panama City, December 6. [December 4]

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland's leading newspaper, on COP17, the future of the CDM, and South Pole Carbon (article in German). [November 11]

Climate Neutral Investments' Maximilian Horster on Carbon Market: Investment Risks and Opportunities at ZCMA's lunch event, November 17. [November 10]

Meet South Pole Carbon's Andrea Rumiz and Bruce Perry at stand 72 at Carbon Expo Australasia in Melbourne, November 7-9. [November 6]

South Pole Carbon's Renat Heuberger will speak at the IETA side event on EU ETS: The End of Offset Demand - What Next? at Carbon Forum Asia, November 2 at 5:15 PM. [October 30]

South Pole Carbon's Paul Butarbutar will speak on MRV & PoAs: Achieving Effective Implementation, Green Outcomes and Conventional Returns at Carbon Forum Asia, November 2 at 11:15 AM. [October 26]

South Pole Carbon's Renat Heuberger will speak on State & Trends for the Global Carbon Market and Implications for Asia-Pacific at Carbon Forum Asia, November 2 at 10:30 AM. [October 26]

Meet South Pole Carbon's Renat Heuberger, Ingo Puhl, Paul Butarbutar, Caspar Chiquet and more penguins at Carbon Forum Asia in Singapore, November 2-3. [October 26]

South Pole Carbon's Tilmann Silber is giving an input presentation at Palm Oil Trialog in Zurich, October 28. [October 26]

South Pole Carbon's Junio Palomba on "Voluntary markets making a comeback?" at The Carbon Show in London, October 21. [October 11]

Renat Heuberger on "Carbon credits – a sustainable solution?" at EFEF 2011 conference in Geneva, October 11. [October 5]

A carbon neutral life, with no extra cost or effort – from today, Swiss credit card holders can enjoy an automated offsetting of their spendings. Developed by South Pole Carbon and Swiss Cornèr Bank. Details on the methodology can be found under here. [September 29]

South Pole's Christian Dannecker in a panel on CDM Standardized Baselines: policy developments and opportunities for application in LAC at Latin American Carbon Forum, San José (Costa Rica), September 29. [September 22]

A carbon neutral life, with no extra cost or effort – watch out for our smart and pioneering approach to consumer carbon neutrality. To be presented September 29. [August 29]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger on voluntary offsets at ZCMA's workshop on voluntary carbon markets, Zurich, August 31. [August 29]

The future of the CDM – Download our new study From PoAs to NAMA, developed for KfW. [August 15]

Compensate for the carbon footprint of your portfolios with Julius Bär! The Swiss bank just launched their Green Portfolio Services with us. [July 13]

First ever Social Carbon credits from South-east Asia: our run-of-river hydro plant on Indonesia's biggest island Sumatra issued carbon credits with a story worth telling. Learn more in our press release! [July 5]

South Pole's Ingo Puhl : From PoAs to NAMAs at BMU side event, Carbon Expo, June 2, 12PM. [May 30]

Meet us in Barcelona next week! We are at stand B519. [May 26]

First VCS forestry project ever in South America issues charismatic credits: Our pioneering non-monoculture reforestation project in Colombia proves South Pole's leadership in premium carbon offsetting. Read more!
[May 16]

South Pole's Christoph Grobbel is speaking on offsetting in CSR at Responsible Business Summit, London, May 4. [May 2]

South Pole's Christoph Grobbel on offsetting opportunities outside the EU ETS, in VIK Mitteilungen (German only). [April 29]

Bangkok Climate Change Conference: Download the presentations of South Pole's Parallel Event on NAMAs, scaled up mechanisms, and engaging with stakeholders:
— Welcome and brief update on the status of the negotiation on Scaling-Up
      by Ingo Puhl, South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd.  
— Objectives of the Partnership for Market Readiness
      by Xueman Wang, World Bank  
— Innovative Carbon facilities for Scaled-Up Mitigation Actions
      by Dr. Harri Laurikka, Ministry of Environment Finland (NEFCO)  
— The Interaction between POA and NAMA
      by Kim Carnahan, IETA  
— Challenges in scaling up market mechanisms
      by Jane Ellis, OECD  
— Integrating Feed-in-Tariff Policy into a PoA – Case Study from Thailand
      by Ingo Puhl, Carbon CME Ltd., Thailand / South Pole Ltd.  
— How much scaling-up can we expect from standardized CDM baselines?
      by Seleha Lockwood, Sindicatum, on behalf of PD Forum  
— Existing Carbon Market Mechanisms are a Key Element for Scaled-Up
      Mitigation Actions (South Pole Position Paper)  
[April 8]

Bangkok Climate Change Conference: South Pole Parallel Event on NAMAs, scaled up mechanisms, and engaging with stakeholders, Bangkok, April 6.
[March 29]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger on entrepreneural challenges. Read the interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German)!
[March 28]

Deutsche Welle TV featured our irrigation and hydro power project Hsikou in their climate change series. See the video here!
[March 24]

7:7 is how the ice hockey match ended. South Pole Penguins vs. myclimate Ice Bears was a lot of fun for everybody involved. Return!
[March 18]

First VCS forestry project ever in South America: Our pioneering non-monoculture reforestation project in Colombia about to deliver carbon credits. Read more!
[March 16]

Swiss TV on CO2-compensation abroad, featuring South Pole's Renat Heuberger. Watch the video (in Swiss German)!
[March 8]

Meet us at stand 17, CMI Amsterdam, climate neutral by South Pole. Taste some Swiss chocolate at our stand and don't miss our side event on the voluntary markets!
[March 1]

Swiss public chose South Pole: our Gold Standard wind project from New Caledonia to offset Swiss Post after public voting.
Read more in our press release!
[February 14]

Best Project Developer: South Pole!
In: Environmental Finance's Voluntary Carbon Markets 2011 survey.
[February 9]

Cancun Insights at South Pole head office on Thursday, January 13: Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger will share their insights and adventures from COP 16.
[January 10]

2010


First ever issued Gold Standard credits from New Caledonia: Our wind energy project.
[December 17]

Download your copy of our PoA Guidebok for FFEM, French Ministry of Finance, French Ministry of Environment, CDC and ADEME, presented at COP 16.
[December 3]

South Pole hosted the only event in Cancun to discuss the future of the voluntary markets: The Voluntary Carbon Markets after 2012, Thursday December 9 at 2 PM, Salon Siqueiros at Westin Spa and Resort.
[December 3]

South Pole's Renat Heuberger on Perverse Incentives: Offset Mechanisms and the Treatment of National Policies at IETA's COP16 side event on December 8, 1:30 PM at The Westin Resort.
[December 7]

South Pole's Thomas Camerata and K Kartick at the Gold Standard Academy India, September 3 – read the wrap up here
[November 2]

South Pole further develops the high quality carbon markets: Our Small Hydro Bundle is now first project ever to deliver issued credits validated against the Social Carbon Standard outside Brazil. Read the press release here!
[October 29]

Don't miss South Pole's Christian Dannecker discuss PoAs and future instruments at CMIA on November 1, 3:30 PM.
[October 29]

Meet South Pole at Carbon Forum Asia in Singapore, October 27-28. Discuss carbon credit origination & procurement in South East Asia, our IT solutions to support carbon credit delivery from your project portfolios, and our work on the design of nationally appropriate mitigation actions. Email to i.puhl[at]southpolecarbon.com to make appointments with our team.
[October 21]

South Pole's Jules Chuang presented Climate Neutral Investments at the Carbon Disclosure Project 2010 Asia ex-Japan Report event in Hongkong, October 7.
[October 20]

Swiss Equity magazine on Climate Neutral Investments: Full article here (German only)!
[October 18]

Meet South Pole's Andrea Rumiz and Bruce Perry at our stand at Carbon Expo Australasia in Melbourne, October 11-13.
[October 6]

South Pole is climate neutral sponsor of The Carbon Show in London, October 4-5.
[September 27]

The Gold Standard just approved the CFL/LFS Methodology developed by South Pole's Fernando Villasana. Congrats, Fernando!
[September 23]

South Pole is climate neutral sponsorof HSG Alumni conference in Montreux, Switzerland, September 23-25.
[September 16]

South Pole is climate neutral sponsor of WSES 2010 students' conference on sustainabilty in Tübingen, Germany, September 20-26.
[September 13]

South Pole's Patrick Horka will speak on biofuel at FAME 2010 in Berlin on September 13.
[September 7]

South Pole is hosting the Point Carbon Connections 2010 in Zurich, September 7. We are looking forward to a great evening with old and new friends in the carbon business!
[September 1]

South Pole's Thomas Camerata is giving an introduction speech at the Gold Standard Academy in New Delhi on September 3.
[August 30]

South Pole's Patana Surawatanapongs is giving a talk on carbon trading at the CDM Training Event of Thailand's DNA at Pathumwan Princess Hotel in Bangkok on August 30.
[August 26]

South Pole's Christoph Sutter on entrepreneurship at TP Talk Plus in Luzern, August 26.
[August 19]

South Pole is Climate Neutral Sponsor of Climate Thailand Conference 2010 in Bangkok, August 19-21.
[August 12]

South Pole's Christian Dannecker on Colombian forestry VER exchange in Point Carbon interview.
[August 3]

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

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 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]

2009


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 Partners and Experts were attending COP15.
Download their schedule!. [Dec. 9]

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]