carbon market initiative News
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Carbon, energy and clean tech market actors meet at CARBON EXPO in cologne
With questions surrounding carbon markets and climate finance needing answers, there is an opportunity to participate in the leading Global Trade Fair and Conference for Carbon, Energy and Clean Tech Markets taking place in Cologne, May 30-June 1. At a time when the carbon market is in transition - EU emissions prices are sharply lower, a federal US cap and- trade program is distant, and a fully ...
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Providers of Climate Finance call on Governments for strong signals that ensure progress in Durban
At the Opening Ceremony of the 8th edition of CARBON EXPO, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, called on governments to provide clarity and commitment for global solutions to climate change. In the run-up to COP17 in Durban, South Africa in December 2011, the Carbon Expo International Trade Fair & Conference gathered thousands of participants this week in Barcelona to ...
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Emissions trading banking on the December 2009 Global climate Deal in Copenhagen, finds Frost & Sullivan
The outcome of the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference will largely dictate the success of the emerging but potentially lucrative global carbon market. Governments worldwide are actively pursuing initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The EU, for instance, wants to lower GHG emissions by 20 percent over 1990 levels by 2020, and by up to 30 percent if agreement is reached ...
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Not ready for REDD?
Practicalities of trading carbon and protecting forests make meeting high expectations for REDD hard, say Esteve Corbera and Manuel Estrada. It is clear that any effective international 'deal' on climate change must decrease emissions from deforestation and land-use change that represent about a fifth of all emissions. An international mechanism to fund such reductions, reducing emissions from ...
By SciDev.Net
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Australia meets another Kyoto milestone
The Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, has announced that Australia's emissions trading registry has been issued with Australia's Kyoto units for the 2008-2012 Kyoto Protocol period. The Secretariat to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has confirmed Australia's units, or Assigned Amount Units, for the 2008-2012 commitment period, were ...
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ADB granted US$100m to commence future carbon fund
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has received financing commitments of over US$100 million for a new post-2012 carbon fund and will commence its operations in January. In addition to its founding public sector partners, the ADB is seeking further participation from private businesses. The ADB-administered Future Carbon Fund aims to provide up to $200 million to help finance renewable energy, ...
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Koelnmesse continues its expansion of international carbon events with Carbon TradeEx America
The Koelnmesse group, co-organizer of Carbon Expo and Carbon Forum Asia, today announced the launch of Carbon TradeEx America which will take place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from April 7-8, 2009 in Washington, DC. This event builds on the recent success of the Carbon event organized earlier in February in San Francisco and adds to the list of international environmental events ...
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ADB establishes future carbon fund
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has established a new fund that will use carbon credits generated beyond 2012 to provide urgently needed financing for clean energy projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The current regulatory framework, based on the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period expires on 31 December 2012, hampering the trading in post-2012 carbon credits. This would affect the level ...
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More funding needed in Asia-Pacific for climate change, says bank
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss has called for more funding for projects that will reduce the adverse impact of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region. Speaking in Chiba, Japan, at the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development, Ms. Schaefer-Preuss said there should be more partnerships ...
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Preliminary report: CARBON EXPO 2006: Unique business platform for the rapidly growing emissions market
- World's only trade fair and conference for emissions trading and the carbon market will take place in Cologne from 10th to 12th May 2006 - Overview and analysis of the latest trends in the global carbon market - Conference: Increased emphasis on trade and the services sector CARBON EXPO – Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, which will be taking place for the ...
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CARBON EXPO 2006: Unique business platform for the rapidly growing emissions market
- World's only trade fair and conference for emissions trading and the carbon market will take place in Cologne from 10th to 12th May 2006 - Overview and analysis of the latest trends in the global carbon market - Conference: Increased emphasis on trade and the services sector CARBON EXPO - Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, which will be taking place for the third time from ...
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