BISMARCK, N.D. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty supports changing a state law that makes it difficult for North Dakota to sell electricity from new, coal-fueled power plants to Minnesota, a Pawlenty spokesman said Wednesday.
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The Government made a significant move towards establishing a regional centre for renewable energy research in T&T when it hosted energy policymakers from the United States and other Caribbean territories at the Hilton Trinidad yesterday. Energy Minister Conrad Enill said the meeting was important because it acknowledged the new reality that renewable energy will play an enhanced role in the region’s thrust towards sustainable development. He said the partnership with the US Department of Energy “will see the consummation of a partnership between T&T and the US to establish the region’s first renewable energy research centre that would conduct varied work in this field for the benefit of all countries in the region.” “Climate change has been an ongoing focal point of discussion since last April during the Fifth Summit of the Americas, when (US) President (Barack) Obama and leaders across the hemisphere launched the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. “Talks on climate change continued at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) and at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.”
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HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Natural gas is relatively cheap, abundant and clean- burning–making it a logical source of supply for power providers and a profitable business for energy companies, an Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) executive said Wednesday.
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PARIS, March 10 (UPI) — The International Energy Agency and technology officers from 30 global companies in Paris called Wednesday for dramatic action to usher in a low-carbon economy.
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THE Business Design Centre in Upper Street, Islington, has pledged to boost its green credentials by going carbon neutral.
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BRUSSELS — Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit group said Friday.
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March 16 (Bloomberg) — JSW Steel Ltd., India’s third- largest producer of the alloy, won additional carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a project in the southern state of Karnataka.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would be far more effective if it relied more on smaller, representative groups of countries meeting year-round to hammer out the details of a future climate agreement, Britain’s climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, told Parliament.
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Newedge Group, one of the world’s biggest independent futures brokers, has closed its energy and environmental markets business in Australia after the country’s carbon-trading reforms stalled.
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The partnership provides clients with access to Greenstone’s carbon accounting software, Acco2unt, to measure, manage and report carbon emissions online.
16th March 2010 – Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company and The CarbonNeutral Company, a world-leading provider of carbon reduction solutions, today announced a partnership across operations in Europe and the United States.
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TOKYO, Mar 10, 2010 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) — Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (TSE:8755) is broadening the scope of its environmental risk management business to include providing certification and consultation services to companies that must comply with new government regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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The project results show that by improving current procedures, considerable gains in terms of fuel efficiency and consequently lower CO2 emissions can be achieved. Additionally, green approach procedures already enable lower noise pollution and improve local air quality in and around airports.
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CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing
David Roberts over at Grist has a great rebuttal of Thom Friedman’s latest column in which he and investor Vinod Khosla seem to overlook many of the problems caused by coal mining and coal burning. It’s a good thing that concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are now on everybody’s mind, but we have to be careful to not getting tunnel vision.
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If you’ve ever braved the streets of Cairo, you know that every time you cross the street there as a pedestrian an adventure is in store. Cairo, unfortunately, is almost synonymous with traffic congestion, and all those drivers want to get where they’re going – fast.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Steadfast Networks (http://steadfast.net) announced on Tuesday it has purchased enough carbon offset credits to offer a 100 percent carbon offset for its staff commuting, office usage, core infrastructure, networking equipment, shared web hosting, VPS hosting, and backup services.
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