11/11/10
Action plan on climate change
The Icelandic government recently approved an action plan on climate change which stipulates reduction in net release of climate change gases by up to 30% by 2020 through ten key actions. The Minister of finance has already put forth a bill in Parli...Read more
5/11/09
Conference on actions against climate change
Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund and REYST have announced a conference on Nordic climate day on 11 November 2009. There will be informative presentations on the effects of climate change and the focus will also be on possibilities to sequester c...Read more
22/09/09
Renewal of agreement to carbon offset the government-owned car fleet
The agreement between Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund and Icelandic ministries to offset the carbon emissions of the government-owned car fleet has been renewed for the year 2009. Calculations of the total emissions of government vehicles made ...Read more
6/03/09
Kolvidur - Iceland Carbon Fund is planting trees
On Sunday 31 May the daily Morgunbladid ran a story about Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund titled “Kolvidur plants despite the economic crisis”. The article is in Icelandic....Read more
25/07/08
Carbon offsetting of the government-owned car fleet
An agreement has been signed between Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund and Icelandic ministries to offset the carbon emissions of the government-owned car fleet for 2008. The State Trading Center (Rikiskaup) has calculated the total emissions of ...Read more
21/01/08
Kolvidur - Iceland Carbon Fund gift Certificates
Kolvidur´s gift certificates – a present that grows and blooms! Now you can buy a gift certificate here on the webpage. When you give a gift certificate trees are planted to sequester carbon and recover degraded soil. This is what you...Read more
25/10/07
Iceland Carbon Fund and the Rangá Forestry Association
A agreement was signed recently between Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund and the Forestry Association of Rangá concerning the planting of forest in Geitasandur, South Iceland. The agreement was consummated when the first plants were planted at a...Read more
23/07/07
Vehicle are not green!
The Board of Kolvidur – Iceland Carbon Fund strongly objects to the fund being implicated in recent media stories about so-called “green” cars. The Board wishes to emphasize that the media campaign instigated by a local vehicle dis...Read more
24/06/07
Iceland Carbon Fund, Channel 2 and co-operating companies present a summer contest June 22 - August 24
Human-induced climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the Earth and it is up to each and every one of us to help combat this threat by reducing carbondioxide levels in the atmosphere. Kolviður – the Iceland Carbon...Read more
14/06/07
First tree planting at Geitasandur for the Iceland Carbon Fund
On June 14, 2007, the first trees were planted in the inaugural Kolviðarskógur – Iceland Carbon Fund Forest, at Geitasandur in the south of Iceland. The planting marks a milestone, as this is the first forest in Iceland specifically planted to...Read more
15/05/07
Offset your carbon emissions!
The president of Iceland, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, formally launched the website of Kolviður – the Iceland Carbon Fund, by offsetting the first private vehicle in Iceland, but on the website individuals can calculate their transportation-re...Read more
15/04/07
One tank a year!
On April 16 Kolviður – the Iceland Carbon Fund – was formally launched at the National Museum of Iceland. The aim of the Iceland Carbon Fund is to enable individuals, families, companies and organisations to offset their transportation r...Read more
