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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency, signaling a continuing decoupling of emissions and economic activity. This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes ...
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Auction cuts to breathe new life into EU carbon markets
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System has been widely criticised for failing to provide sufficient incentive to stop the region’s generators burning coal rather than gas or other cleaner fuels. However, from next Wednesday, the EU ETS is set to change radically, according to research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. On 12 March, the EU will start to ...
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Auction cuts to breathe the new life into EU carbon markets
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System has been widely criticised for failing to provide sufficient incentive to stop the region’s generators burning coal rather than gas or other cleaner fuels. However, from next Wednesday, the EU ETS is set to change radically, according to research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. On 12 March, the EU will start to ...
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Calgon Carbon awarded US$55m contract for mercury removal from flue gas
Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC: NYSE) has been awarded a contract by a major US power generator to supply Fluepac MC+ and Fluepac CF+ activated carbon to remove mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. Under terms of the guaranteed contract, the customer has agreed to purchase over the next five years a minimum amount of activated carbon valued at $55 million. Fluepac ...
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Climate talks: Obama victory offers hope, but Congress is key
One of Barack Obama's first tasks will be to lead the United States back into the heart of the global debate on climate change, ending the country's years of isolation and skepticism. His victory will spark intense relief among negotiators in Europe and Asia. Obama has pledged nothing less than a demolition of the policies that since March 2001 have left America friendless and at times a pariah ...
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Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Launches $35 Million International Challenge to Find Useful Applications for Carbon
The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is seeking innovative ideas from around the world for a $35 million open innovation challenge that will create new, carbon-based products and markets. The grand challenge is the first ever initiated by an organization in Alberta, Canada. It is expected to identify multiple technologies that could provide significant reductions in ...
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Cost of carbon emissions poised to rise as EU Member States advance market fix
Carbon prices are poised to rebound from a three-year slump as European Union member states backed a stopgap plan to reduce a record glut of pollution permits. The cost of emitting carbon dioxide will jump to 7.75 euros ($10.55) a metric ton by the end of the year, from the Jan. 8 close of 4.65 euros ($6.35), according to the median of nine analyst and trader estimates compiled by Bloomberg ...
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CEOs, Enviros Pressure Bush for National Climate Law
WASHINGTON, DC, January 22, 2007 (ENS) - The heads of 10 corporate giants and four environmental organizations today announced a new alliance to lobby the U.S. government for strong national legislation to achieve significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. At congressional and national press briefings today, CEOs and environmentalists introduced the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, ...
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S&P Global Platts Analytics: China`s Carbon Trading Provides Additional Tool for Decarbonization
S&P Global Platts ("Platts"), the leading independent provider of information, analytics, and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets today issued an analysis of China's Friday launch of its national carbon emissions trading program, which creates the world's largest carbon market. The 5 Year Plan (2021-2025) released this spring largely reinforced Paris Agreement nationally ...
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China Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Curb Climate Change Emissions
China is the world’s No. 1 polluter. It burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. It produces more than a quarter of the world’s human-caused global warming gases, nearly as much as North America and Europe put together. On Tuesday, the country set out to claim another title reflecting its ambitions to change all that: keeper of the world’s largest financial market ...
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UK greenhouse gas emissions on track to hit Kyoto target
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has said that the UK is making progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but there is still much work to do. Provisional statistics published last week for total UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2007 showed a drop of two percent below the previous year, with 639.4 million metric tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent, down from 652.3 million metric tonnes in 2006. ...
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JOHNSON MATTHEY APPOINTS JOSE G. RAMIREZ SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER FOR ITS STATIONARY EMISSIONS CONTROL (SEC) GROUP
JOHNSON MATTHEY APPOINTS JOSE G. RAMIREZ SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER FOR ITS STATIONARY EMISSIONS CONTROL (SEC) GROUP MALVERN, PA, October 20, 2010—Johnson Matthey announced today the appointment of Jose G. Ramirez as a Senior Project Engineer for its Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) group. SEC designs and supplies catalysts and engineers catalytic systems to control emissions from ...
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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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Questions and Answers on the proposal for a directive on the geological storage of carbon dioxide
1) What is carbon capture and storage? Carbon capture and storage is a suite of technological processes which involve capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the gases discarded by industry and transporting and injecting it into geological formations. The major application for carbon capture and storage (CCS) is to reduce CO2 emissions from power generation from fossil fuels, principally coal and ...
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