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- noun The property of being
additional .
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Examples
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One of the biggest problems with offsetting is ensuring 'additionality' -- proving that the offsets that you are buying in order to counterbalance your carbon emissions would not have happened without yours and other similar contributions.
Ron Dembo: Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting, Part 2 -- The Additionality Issue In Offsetting 2008
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A key question from environmentalists, led by the U. S.-based group International Rivers, is whether projects meet the CDM test of "additionality" -- that they contribute to making real reductions of greenhouses gases rather than be business-as-usual projects capitalizing belatedly on the CDM bonanza.
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A key question from environmentalists, led by the U. S.-based group International Rivers, is whether projects meet the CDM test of "additionality" - that they contribute to making real reductions of greenhouses gases rather than be business-as-usual projects capitalizing belatedly on the CDM bonanza.
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Offsets are based on the idea of "additionality" - that the credit is being issued for a cut in emissions which would not otherwise have taken place.
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A key question from environmentalists, led by the U. S.-based group International Rivers, is whether projects meet the CDM test of "additionality" - that they contribute to making real reductions of greenhouses gases rather than be business-as-usual projects capitalizing belatedly on the CDM bonanza.
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Furthermore, some of the offsets were for projects that would have gone through anyway-illustrating the need for those so-called additionality standards.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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More importantly, the U.S. wants to ensure the projects, such as wind-farms in China or energy efficiency programs in India, wouldn't have been built without outside aid (so-called additionality in 'climate' speak).
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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"fast start" money for the next three years which the conference is likely to approve, and a further commitment to "additionality" - a guarantee that any promised climate cash will not come out of existing aid budgets.
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Neither the Copenhagen summit nor the Bonn talks succeeded in establishing what exactly "additionality" means.
Corbin Hiar: Fires, Flooding, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding? 2010
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Neither the Copenhagen summit nor the Bonn talks succeeded in establishing what exactly "additionality" means.
Corbin Hiar: Fires, Flooding, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding? 2010
john commented on the word additionality
"Can the seller show that the offset — for a methane-capturing well or windmill or tree plantation or the like — would not have happened anyway (a characteristic called “additionality�? in the industry)?"
The New York Times, Buying Carbon-Neutral, by Andrew C. Revkin, April 29, 2007
July 27, 2008
sionnach commented on the word additionality
Ding dong dell.
The pussy's in the methane-capturing well.
July 27, 2008