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Carbon offsets cost different amounts. If you've looked into buying carbon offsets, you'll know that there is a huge range of prices, from around £2 per tonne to over £25. This might seem strange, given that they're all meant to do the same thing - reduce carbon emissions by one tonne. Why is this? We're interested to understand what you think the right price is to offset one tonne of carbon. Fill out our short poll and we'll let you know the results in our next newsletter.

Carbon Retirement has been chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’, and was also selected as one of the ‘Top 5 for Ethics’ from companies included in the list.

The Smarta 100 aims to uncover remarkable small businesses that have gone the extra mile to differentiate themselves from the market or found clever ways to compete, from their marketing plan to their ethical stance.

With so little progress in Copenhagen and even the weak Copenhagen Accord now faltering, what is the future for carbon management and offsetting among businesses?

The lack of certainty about the strength of international carbon reduction targets is an issue not only for businesses looking to invest in internal emissions reductions, but also the clean-tech industry that supplies them. Clean-tech investment, which slowed in the recession, has pretty much ground to a halt, stemming the flow of new products and services to support the low carbon transition.

The environmental sector is brilliant at sharing information and, in London at least, there are more green networking events than you can shake an FSC-sourced stick at. We know you already know about Green Mondays, Net Impact and the wonderful lecture programme at the RSA, so we're not going to bang on about them.