Popularly, China is a villain in climate change. Many people who attended last year’s chaotic U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen — especially those who belonged to the U.S. delegation — singled out China as the main reason the summit nearly collapsed. Chinese diplomats fought hard against any form of emissions regulation, even though their country is now the world’s No. 1 national carbon emitter, and will emit far more carbon in the future than any other. In Washington, opponents of carbon cap-and-trade also point to China, which is unlikely to take on a carbon cap of its own, and wonder why the U.S. should have to restrain its emissions.
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Posted on March 17, 2010
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Fear of Western-imposed carbon tariffs on goods and services from Asia is likely to drive growth in offsetting emissions by large firms in the region, a voluntary carbon market executive said.
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Posted on March 17, 2010
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Environmentalists have traditionally seen Gulf countries as pantomime villains when it comes to tackling climate change.
This view is unlikely to have changed in light of a rather non-committal approach from nations in the region, in particular to extensive talks on establishing a legally-binding global agreement on cutting carbon emissions in Copenhagen in December last year.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
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March 15 (Bloomberg) — China’s control over the prices of power from wind is dictating the supply of tradable emission credits in the UN carbon market, the world’s second biggest, according to a report from Stanford University.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Fear of Western-imposed carbon tariffs on goods and services from Asia is likely to drive growth in offsetting emissions by large firms in the region, a voluntary carbon market executive said.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
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Taipei, March 11 (CNA) The European Parliament has strongly supported Taiwan’s efforts to gain admission to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as an observer, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
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Tokyo, Japan: Japan is at risk of undermining its own recent commitments on carbon emissions reductions during a confused – and confusing – debate on forthcoming climate legislation, WWF said today.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
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BEIJING, Mar. 7, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) — Premier Wen Jiabao has said in his government report given on Friday that the nation backs development on low-carbon technology and fostering low-carbon-related industries and consumption.
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Posted on March 14, 2010
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Japan is struggling over how to meet its ambitious promise to cut carbon emissions by a quarter from 1990 levels by 2020.
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Posted on March 12, 2010
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This view is unlikely to have changed in light of a rather non-committal approach from nations in the region, in particular to extensive talks on establishing a legally-binding global agreement on cutting carbon emissions in Copenhagen in December last year.
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Posted on March 11, 2010
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The Environment Development Center of China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has signed a memorandum of understanding with the British Standards Institution on the certification of low-carbon products.
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Posted on March 10, 2010
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BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) — Fang Fang, vice chairman of J. P. Morgan Asia Investment Banking division, has proposed that China develop a domestic carbon-trading system as part of its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Posted on March 10, 2010
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Abu Dhabi, March 3 : Future growth in oil demand may be significantly constrained due to the emerging policies in the US and elsewhere to address climate change, said experts.
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Posted on March 9, 2010
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