carbon trading News
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EU kicks off latest carbon trading crackdown
The EU launched the latest phase of its clampdown on fraud in the carbon ...
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Global carbon market expanded 68 per cent in 2009
The value of the market may have flat-lined, but the volume of credits being traded went from strength to strength Despite global recession, falling carbon prices and ongoing questions about the effectiveness of carbon trading, credits equivalent to 82bn tonnes of carbon dioxide were traded last year, an increase of... ...
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Ten states formally begin carbon trading
On Thursday, for the first time ever, the United States will see a price on carbon emerge from a mandatory emissions cap-and-trade program. The auction this week is the first held by the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI caps carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in 10 Northeastern states to 188 million tons CO2 (171 million metric tons). Approximately 90% of the ...
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New measures to avoid cyber fraud in the carbon market
European climate change committee plans to introduce new measure that will increase the security of the EU ETS. The UK government and the European climate change committee have today endorsed plans to tighten up security for the EU’s emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), after a jumble of cyber attacks earlier this year forced carbon registries across the continent to suspend carbon ...
By Vital Energi
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State of the World 2008: Innovations for a sustainable economy
Pioneering entrepreneurs, nongovernmental organizations, and governments around the globe are inventing the Earth’s first sustainable global economy, according to State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy. In response to climate change and other environmental problems, these leaders are field-testing a remarkable array of economic innovations that offer surprising and hopeful ...
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Stung by CRC
Concerns over the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme are leaving property owners aggrieved and feeling they are being dealt with unfairly, particularly those who have to pay for emissions produced by others that they cannot control. Many commercial landlords may have to pay for carbon emissions they do not directly produce, and over which they have little influence. Given a key factor of the CRC is ...
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Serious shortcomings in carbon trading scheme - German research institute
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a flexible mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that allows countries and businesses to offset their emission reductions from greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement projects in developing and newly industrializing countries. There are two key criteria which these CDM projects must fulfil. Firstly, the project must genuinely reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, ...
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Wall Street Green Summit XII
The Wall Street Green Summit is the longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. Launched in 2002 by Peter Fusaro, The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Hear it here first! The Wall Street Green Summit XII is the “one-stop shop” to come up to ...
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EU council agrees to bring aviation into carbon trading, but throws out soil directive
European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas welcomed the political agreement reached by today's Environment Council on including aircraft emissions in the EU emissions trading scheme. The Council however failed to reach an agreement on the day's other major issue: the new soil framework directive. Commissioner Dimas welcomed the Council's conclusions on the environment and health. ...
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ASU Appoints Leading Documentary Filmmaker, Sustainability Expert as Professor of Practice
Arizona State University has appointed documentary filmmaker Peter Byck to jointly serve as Professor of Practice for the Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability and for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Byck focuses on issues of environmental sustainability and he has more than 20 years' experience as a writer and producer. His most recent ...
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China`s coasts offer more than land reclamation
Protecting China's coastal ecology from land reclamation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, benefit the coastal economy and highlight the carbon-trading potential of coastal energy crops, say Jiang Gaoming, Dou Guanyi and Chen Bosen in an article in China Dialogue. China's mangrove forest area has fallen from 500 to 150 square kilometres over the past 60 years as a result of reclamation and ...
By SciDev.Net
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China`s coasts offer more than land reclamation
Protecting China's coastal ecology from land reclamation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, benefit the coastal economy and highlight the carbon-trading potential of coastal energy crops, say Jiang Gaoming, Dou Guanyi and Chen Bosen in an article in China Dialogue. China's mangrove forest area has fallen from 500 to 150 square kilometres over the past 60 years as a result of reclamation and ...
By SciDev.Net
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A first look at how the EU emissions trading scheme is working
The EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) was introduced for a three-year trial period in 2005, and this initial analysis looks at how well it is working using data from the first two years of operation. The research concludes that both over-allocation and a reduction in CO2 emissions occurred. This research provides insights on the extent to which over-allocation of EU Emissions Allowances (EUAs) ...
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Vintara announces an integrated, web-based GHG emissions management portal
Vintara, the leading provider of fully automated, web-based enterprise performance and quality management solutions and services; announces a fully integrated GHG Emissions Management System Portal.With the successful March Release of our GHG Emissions Management Portal, Vintara allows any user, regardless of protocol, whether VP Environmental Affairs, production or sustainability manager to ...
By Vintara
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E.ON advocates uniform global carbon trading with a phased auctioning scheme
For E.ON, a uniform global carbon trading system and carbon pricing mechanism is the most powerful and market-oriented tool for effective climate protection. 'If a climate agreement was to help us come closer to establishing a single carbon market, then that would be a huge success for the Copenhagen Climate Conference,' said E.ON CEO Wulf Bernotat. Prerequisites would be clear emission caps, a ...
By E.ON AG
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Kenya hopes to become Africa`s carbon trade hub
Kenya has announced plans to establish a regional carbon emissions trading scheme to steer Africa"s carbon market. This would hopefully position the country as the continent"s carbon credit trade hub, finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta said in his budget speech to parliament earlier this month (10 June). Kenyatta said a framework for carbon trading — in which polluters buy and sell the right ...
By SciDev.Net
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Global carbon markets now open to Wetland Restoration and Conservation
Wetlands International welcomes the approval of the new carbon trading category “Wetlands Restoration and Conservation” (WRC) by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). The new category provides a strong incentive for private investment in conservation and restoration of carbon rich wetlands. The Verified Carbon Standard’s new carbon trading category enables the measuring and ...
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Carbon credit trading schemes and carbon offsets as part of an investment product
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) are receiving an increasing number of reports from people who have been approached by firms promoting carbon credit trading schemes or offering carbon offsets as part of an investment product to individuals. ClimateCare recommends that any individual that has been approached by a business selling carbon offsets as a personal investment reads the advice on ...
By ClimateCare
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Carbon Forum America 2008 – Reacting to the strong demand for an international business and technical forum for the carbon emissions industry
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and Koelnmesse Inc., the US member of the international Trade Show organizer Koelnmesse GmbH announce the launch of CARBON FORUM AMERICA. This event will take place at the Moscone Convention Center from February 26 - 27, 2008 in San Francisco. IETA and Koelnmesse GmbH are already joint organizers of CARBON EXPO in Cologne, Germany. ...
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EU governments back emission trading for aviation
Airlines should be included in the European carbon trading scheme (ETS), EU environment ministers agreed almost unanimously on Tuesday. Most also said there should be no initial exemption for flights to and from non-EU destinations. But there was no consensus on when carbon caps should be first applied to the sector. In their first public debate on draft legislation to include aircraft emissions ...
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