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Carbon Market Data launches the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Company Database
The team at Carbon Market Data is happy to announce the launch of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Company Database. The first version of this new information solution includes data on South Korean companies. The Korea GHG Reporting Company Database provides greenhouse gas emissions data as well as energy consumption and sales revenue information on around 700 companies based in South Korea. The ...
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“STATE OF THE CARBON MARKET 2006` - New report to be released at Carbon Expo shows dramatic growth in carbon market
A new report from the World Bank and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) highlighting the trends of the global market for carbon emissions trading will be released during CARBON EXPO in Cologne, Germany, on May 10th. Carbon Expo is the largest carbon fair in the world, with more than 2000 representatives from governments, business, and civil society organizations involved in ...
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Aviation Industry Rejects Europe`s Climate Emissions Trading System
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, October 2, 2007 (ENS) - The United Nations body responsible for regulating the aviation industry, wound up its annual assembly in Montreal on Friday without requiring that airlines limit their greenhouse gas emissions by participating in the existing European emissions trading system. Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, created a group of senior ...
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Climate change talks should include farmers
FAO has urged policy makers to include agriculture in negotiations for a new climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol. 'Agricultural land is able to store and sequester carbon. Farmers that live off the land, particularly in poor countries, should therefore be involved in carbon sequestration to mitigate the impact of climate change,' said Alexander Mueller, FAO Assistant ...
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EU within reach of Kyoto targets
The EU-15 can meet, and may even over-shoot, its 2012 Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 8 % below 1990 levels if Member States implement now all additional policies being planned, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), released today in Copenhagen. The report, 'Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2007', presents an evaluation ...
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Western Governors, Premiers Set Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal
OLYMPIA, Washington, August 22, 2007 (ENS) - The eight members of the Western Climate Initiative, WCI, today announced that they have established a regional goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the West to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. By defining the goal before the end of August, WCI members met the timetable they set when the organization was created in February. On February ...
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Shell, BP and Evraz top the list of UK-listed greenhouse gas emitting companies
London (23 April 2015) - Carbon Market Data, a company providing carbon market research and IT services, has launched a new product, the GHG Reporting UK-Listed Company Database, which supplies information on the carbon footprint of UK-listed companies. Based on Carbon Market Data's research, Shell, BP and Evraz top the list of greenhouse gas emitters among companies listed in the United ...
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Biothermica Sells 325 000 Carbon Credits to the Government of Luxemburg
First Trade of Carbon Credits: Biothermica Energy Inc Sells 325,000 Carbon Credits to Luxemburg, Credits Generated by a Landfill Project in Latin America. Montreal: Evolution Markets Inc. announces today it has brokered a trade of carbon reduction credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) between the Government of Luxembourg and Biothermica Energy Inc. The sale ...
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EPA to Propose Endangerment Finding For Aircraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will propose an endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in late April 2015. The EPA would be required by the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases from aircraft if it determines the emissions endanger public health or the environment, it said in a Sept. 3 summary. Finalizing the proposed endangerment finding would take a ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Markets Take Off
Untitled Document NEW YORK, New York, March 1, 2005 (ENS) - The world's first privately owned mechanism set up to help corporations and governments purchase greenhouse gas emissions credits and comply with their treaty commitments was launched Monday, joining the booming field of greenhouse gas emissions trading. The Greenhouse Gas Credit Aggregation Pool (GG-CAP) is owned ...
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Canada delivers details of new greenhouse gas regulations
Canada has published details of its 'Turning the Corner' regulatory framework. The documents, posted on Environment Canada's website, provide additional details about how the Government of Canada will move forward with its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This plan includes mandatory reductions for industry, along with additional new measures to address two of Canada's key emitting ...
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United States Reaches Settlement with Hyundai and Kia in Historic Greenhouse Gas Enforcement Case
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced an historic settlement with the automakers Hyundai and Kia that will resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations based on their sale of close to 1.2 million vehicles that will emit approximately 4.75 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in excess of what the automakers certified to EPA. The ...
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COP21: Parliament`s roadmap for Paris UN climate talks
The EU and its member states must call for a 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and scale up climate finance commitments at the COP21 UN climate talks in Paris, Parliament said on Wednesday. MEPs also say a share of revenues from the EU's carbon market allowances should be earmarked for climate finance, and the aviation and shipping sectors should initiate measures to curb their ...
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Experienced Environmental Engineer Joins 3C as Director of Climate Neutral Department
Bad Vilbel – Since June 4, Dr. Jochen Gassner is Director of the Climate Neutral department at the 3C Group in Frankfurt/Bad Vilbel. His responsibilities encompass the development of international and national VER markets, the design of climate neutral products and services, and the consulting of B2B and B2C customers. Before joining 3C, he worked as Group Environmental Manager at Borealis - a ...
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How to measure a carbon footprint: carbon trust launches new guide
Carbon Footprinting: The next step to reducing your emissions clearly explains how to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by understanding what emissions are caused by a business’s activities or products. The Carbon Trust’s carbon footprinting guide outlines the key steps that a business can take to: Calculate its organisational carbon footprint – by measuring ...
By Carbon Trust
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ETS backloading: carbon market schemes at a turning point
Plans to freeze the auctioning of some CO2 permits, so as to raise their price and thus encourage firms to invest in low-carbon innovation, will be put to a final vote on Tuesday, after EU ministers endorsed Parliament’s July 2013 proposal setting stricter conditions for the freeze. The aim is to restore the incentive effect of the Emissions Trading System, which is designed to cut ...
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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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European President Says Climate Change EU`s Top Priority
Brussels, Belgium - The European Union has put the inter-linked challenges of energy and climate change at the very top of its agenda, European Commission President Jose Barroso told an international audience gathered to consider European policy in preparation for the G8 Summit in Germany in June. Held Thursday in Brussels, the public conversation with President Barroso was sponsored by the ...
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Climate Urgency Shapes High-Level Negotiations
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 16, 2006 (ENS) - More than 50 ministers and heads of delegation addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference here today, most calling for immediate as well as long-term action to avert global warming. European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the meeting, which winds up Friday, has two key tasks. 'One is to strengthen the ability of these ...
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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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