Sandbag is a campaigning organisation currently focused on emissions trading.
Sandbag gives you the power to easily remove tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere and campaigns for tighter caps on emissions.
Find our work useful?
Use this map to explore the international trade in offsets between the EU and the rest of the world in 2009. Select different types of offset projects using the menu on the left. Choose the countries you are interested in on the right. The thickness of the lines represents the amount of offsets being traded. Projects selling fewer than 50,00 permits will only appear as a yellow dot.
Click on an example below to see what you can find out using the offset map:
Subsidising Europe's competitors
3 examples of EU steel works directly subsidising competing steel works by buying CERs:
1) Glocke Salzgitter
2) Integriertes Hüttenwerk Duisburg
3) Elektrostahlwerk Trier
1) Glocke Salzgitter
2) Integriertes Hüttenwerk Duisburg
3) Elektrostahlwerk Trier
First time users may like to watch our tutorial:
You can easily embed the Sandbag Offsetmap into your website. The map is 800px wide and 500px high. Please let us know if you do as we'd like to keep a record of where it's used.
Just copy the following html code and paste it where you want the map to appear on your site:
Just copy the following html code and paste it where you want the map to appear on your site:
<iframe src ="http://www.sandbag.org.uk/sites/sandbag.org.uk/modules/carbondata/embed_offsetmap.php?key=ABQIAAAAQidYXaDj6RrQZH63iVsRTxTrOlvxRPWbHyi2IqlUxx4Kb-u_jRTvh6kPPwbKCydQ9SSrU0REmgli-Q" width="800px" height="500px"><p>Unfortunately your browser does not support iframes, so the embedded map could not be displayed. Please go to http://www.sandbag.org.uk/offsetmap to see the Sandbag Offsetmap</p></iframe>
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Registered Address: BWB Secretarial Ltd, 2-6 Cannon Street, LONDON, EC4M 6YH
Trading Address: 4 Charterhouse Square, LONDON, EC1M 6EE