greenhouse gas market Articles
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Linking greenhouse gas markets around the world
Shortly after the publication of the ISO 14064 standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and verification in March 2006, the climate change sector embraced these policy-neutral tools, developed by 175 experts from around the world between 2002 and 2006. The relevance of ISO 14064 is witnessed by its adoption (with modifications in some cases) or recommendation by leading GHG programs and ...
By ClimateCHECK
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The nature of the right or interest created by a market for forest carbon
Increasingly, the global community is recognizing the need to engage the forest sector as a critical tool to mitigate global warming. A significant opportunity for this sector is the emerging global greenhouse gas emissions trading market. Yet, for forests to be included effectively in emissions trading markets, the nature of the legal rights in forestbased greenhouse gas reductions should be ...
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Australian emissions trading scheme review
The Garnaut Climate Change Review’s approach to mitigation was initially set out in the Interim Report in February 2008. This paper focuses on the key role for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in those mitigation efforts. It recommends an approach for Governments to consider in developing and delivering an effective ETS. Further consideration, informed by detailed economic modelling, will be ...
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Climate Change Central Develops Nitrogen Quantification Protocols with ClimateCHECK
Climate Change Central is a unique public-private partnership that promotes the development of innovative responses to global climate change. The organization helps Alberta businesses, governments and other stakeholders work together to pursue greenhouse gas reduction initiatives. In 2007, Climate Change Central was collaborating with Alberta Environment, an international agricultural ...
By ClimateCHECK
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Is $0 your best guess? - Many companies do not yet factor in a price for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into their corporate planning.
Emerging climate change policy regimes and evolving greenhouse gas (GHG) markets are increasingly important for corporate decision-makers around the world. Readers of Environmental Finance, of course, do not need to be convinced of the sheer magnitude of voluntary and mandatory climate change initiatives being discussed at national and international levels. And few observers believe that the ...
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Writing the rules in Massachusetts - The state of Massachusetts has begun work on detailed rules to implement its greenhouse gas (GHG) market.
Emissions Trading, the economy and the environmentJohn Kinsman - October 2002 Preserving the SO2 marketNorman Fichthorn and Allison Wood - September 2002 Clear Skies and business certaintyLisa Jacobson - June 2002 Is $0 your best guess?Mark Trexler - May 2002 Writing the rules in MassachusettsDan Chartier and Tom Powers - April 2002 Think global, act localDavid Bubenick - March 2002 ...
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4 Key issues surrounding climate policies, carbon markets, and competitiveness
Even in the absence of an international framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, several countries, states, and provinces are developing and implementing climate policies. A growing number of these policies include market-based programs, some of which aim to link to each other through regional and global carbon markets. Countries like the United States can learn a lot from the economic ...
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Can trading pollution like stocks help fight climate change?
The gas produced by hog manure at farms across the U.S. punches holes in the ozone layer, overheats the planet, and angers neighbors with its peculiar odor, a mix of rotten egg and ammonia. All that's needed to clear the air is to cover the manure with a system of tarps that captures the gas, but many farms don't do it because it's too expensive. "If you don't give people incentives to come up ...
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The Clean Development Mechanism: Kyoto Comes Home to Roost
The Clean Development Mechanism - a cornerstone of the Kyoto Protocol which allows industrialised nations to invest in emission reduction projects in the developing world - is inching towards reality. This summer, the European Commission unveiled plans to let companies buy CDM credits to help meet their targets under the EU emissions trading scheme. But long-running controversies over the CDM's ...
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Dynamic carbon footprinting
The early focus by individual businesses on the reduction of their own carbon footprint is being superseded by a phase of building carbon-constrained business networks. Across these networks, businesses evaluate each others' footprints and conduct business accordingly. Dynamic carbon footprinting is emerging as a powerful tool for guiding operational logic and business transformation into the ...
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An integrated strategy for urban Air Quality Management in India
An integrated strategy for urban Air Quality Management adopts a hierarchical approach – graduating from micro to macro-level management of the problem. The paper provides a conceptual framework, and analyses it in the Indian context through energy-environment modelling and local-level studies. The key insights from the analysis are: technology transfers from developed countries promote ...
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Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Legislation Invigorate the EHS Software Market
Are Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions an environmental management/sustainability issue or a business issue? It depends upon whom you ask—scientists and engineers or corporate executives. No matter the answer, anticipation of a new "carbon ecoomy" has ignited the environment, health & safety (EHS) software market. Lexicon Systems, LLC founder Jill Barson Gilbert interviewed executives at ...
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Water Sustainability
I7.1 | Water Optimization – 30% Groundwater Use Reduction Tabatha Pellerin, Senior Program Manager, AECOM AECOM assisted the Entergy Lewis Creek gas/coal fired electric power plant with water conservation efforts prompted by a goal of 30% groundwater (GW) use reduction by 2016 mandated by the local GW authority. To complete this work, personnel interviews were conducted to ...
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Ask Enhesa 10: USA & Canada
Contributions from James Olaleye, Christian Petrangelo, Edith Nagy, Caitlin O’Sullivan, Gillian Wener, Danyelle Barron, and Seong Won Hong You asked and we answered! Enhesa’s team of multilingual regulatory analysts are committed to providing quality insight and analysis around the latest EHS news and developments via our Enhesa Flash, webinar series, and blog posts. In response, ...
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