Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has managed to lower its CO2 emissions by 30 percent despite significantly increasing production. The reduction is so large that the company has now reached its goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions five years ahead of target, reports trade journal Ingeniøren.
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• A new 17,000 square meter photovoltaic system inaugurated at Sant’Agata Bolognese
• An integrated environmental strategy based on both production process and product innovations
• Lamborghini is the first Italian automotive company to be EMAS certified
Automobili Lamborghini today inaugurates the new photovoltaic system installed at its premises in Sant’Agata Bolognese.
The biggest integrated system in Emilia Romagna’s industrial sector will enable, together with other interventions, a reduction in CO2 emissions of 30%, equal to more than 1.067 tons per year.
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We owe the founding fathers a great debt for making overreaching power grabs more difficult than they are in other places. Today The Hill brings more proof of their wisdom
House committee chairmen from Minnesota and Missouri are floating legislation to block planned EPA greenhouse gas rules.
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Commenting on today’s publication of the final estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Joan Ruddock, said: “Today’s greenhouse gas emissions statistics are encouraging and show a continued decline in greenhouse gas emissions of nearly 2% during 2008. We are now clearly exceeding our Kyoto target of 12.5% below 1990 levels. UK emissions are now 19.4% below 1990 levels without emissions trading or 22% including emissions trading. The UK is demonstrating the kind of year-on-year reductions that set an example in the world community.
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PARIS (AFP) – France’s carbon emissions fell by 0.6 percent in 2008 over 2007, placing it on track to meeting its pledges under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol and for deeper cuts by 2020, the ecology ministry said Tuesday.
Emissions of greenhouse gases were 527 million tons of CO2 equivalent, a measure by which heat-trapping gases are standardized in terms of carbon dioxide.
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A development project involving the use of novel, optimised engine components, which when combined, achieve a 10% reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions has been embodied in a brand new concept vehicle, the CO2ncept-10% (pictured), the result of a powertrain friction reduction development project between the German companies Schaeffler and Porsche.
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India Saturday conveyed to the UNFCCC information on the voluntary domestic mitigation actions it will undertake to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 20-25 per cent by 2020.
The blueprint was submitted by India a day before the January 31 UN deadline for submitting the climate steps under the Copenhagen Accord.
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The market for carbon trading, never popular in some circles to begin with, is starting to look rather shaky. The bungled Copenhagen summit was bad enough. Now we have the UK energy regulator suggesting the market is not working and that a floor price for carbon should be imposed.
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South Korea’s government said Thursday that it has agreed with a U.S. carbon exchange operator to intensify bilateral cooperation as it seeks to launch its own market for carbon emission rights trading
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FARMERS can apply for interest-free loans aimed at slashing farm energy bills by making equipment more efficient.
Unsecured loans of £3,000 to £20,000 became available from the Carbon Trust yesterday. Designed to pay for themselves through direct energy savings over one to four years, they are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
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TAXPAYERS will foot the bill for big polluters under an opposition plan that will rely primarily on the federal government paying for measures to offset carbon emissions.
The Coalition party room was briefed this morning on an alternative to the government’s emissions trading scheme.
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Today the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Armenia presented Armenia’s draft Second National Communication to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to national stakeholders.
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* Phishing action was international, CO2 trading unaffected * Six German companies had permits stolen * EU Commission uninvolved, investigations at state level
FRANKFURT/BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Online fraudsters have targeted international carbon markets to steal emissions permits from companies and sell them illegally, officials said on Wednesday. Account holders at emissions registries were hit by a “phishing” scam last week when emails were sent to market participants requesting their details, an official at German registry DEHSt said on Wednesday, clarifying a media report. “It was not a hacker attack but a phishing action at firms participating in emissions trading,” said Hans-Juergen Nantke, the head of DEHSt.
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US President Barack Obama has acknowledged the potential need to strip cap and trade out of US energy legislation currently being re-drafted in the US Senate in order to pass the bill.
Speaking at a Town Hall Meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire on February 2, Obama answered a question on how to move forward on energy security and climate change. He conceded that cap-and-trade was the most controversial aspect of the energy bill passed by the House of Representatives in June 2009. Discussing similar legislation currently being examined in the Senate, he said: “We may be able to separate these things out. And it’s conceivable that that’s where the Senate ends up.”
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The government’s introduction of the carbon emission tax has proved to be a very sensitive issue to most Zambian motorists.
Since the introduction of the Carbon Emission Surtax by the government this year, there have been more questions raised by concerned motorists and vehicle owners over the tax than answers given.
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