March 3 (Bloomberg) — Spending to cut greenhouse gas emissions is less appealing after last year’s climate summit in Copenhagen unsettled investors, according to an attorney at Baker & McKenzie LLP.
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Europe
* EU officials propose plan for ETS auctions from 2013
* Draft foresees two platforms, early auctioning from 2011
* Plan says to cancel auctions if prices “abnormally low”
BRUSSELS/LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) – The European Commission is considering auctioning emissions permits from 2011 over centralised platforms and might cancel auctions if carbon prices are “abnormally low”, two leaked documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday show.
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The PrintCity Alliance completed a successful first Graphic Industry Supply Chain Workshop on the subject Carbon Footprint & Energy Efficiency during February 2010 in Munich.
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According to figures compiled by the independent research company JATO Dynamics, the Fiat Group continues to lead the way in cutting greenhouse gas recording the lowest volume weighted CO2 emissions.
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Climate change is a problem private equity must address, according to the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) as it welcomed a new report published by a collaboration of European investors into how to accelerate investment in a low-carbon economy.
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AMSTERDAM, March 2 (Reuters) – Financial market intelligence provider Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and carbon analysts Point Carbon are considering jointly developing carbon offset project risk assessment products and services, they said on Tuesday.
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Some plastics packaging processors’ sustainability plans are further along than others. Among the pace setters is Innovia Films, which has earned CarbonNeutral certification for its range of cellulose-based NatureFlex coated biodegradable and compostable packaging films.
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PARIS — Europe’s system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent’s biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed.
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The world’s first carbon trading scheme should be used as a model for global cap-and-trade says leading American economist
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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – European carbon prices could test 10-month lows and possibly fall as low as 11 euros a tonne in the next two weeks as European Union member states allocate their 2010 emissions permits to industry, analysts said.
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Some interesting questions are raised as one looks at the news reports surrounding the new 300 page report ‘Climate Cure’ released by Norway on February 17. It’s targeting emission cuts of 30% by 2020 from 1990 levels. The current emission levels are around 54 million tons v about 50 million tons in 1990, and the report is looking at ways to reduce emissions by 15-17 million tons/ year by 2020.
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Imposing an emissions cap and trade scheme is the best option for curbing carbon emissions from shipping in EU waters, a report for the European Commission has found. CE Delft’s study “Technical support for European action to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from international maritime transport” was commissioned to give direction to EU plans to act on maritime emissions in the absence of any global moves. The lack of any outcome at the UN’s Copenhagen climate conference in December has only raised expectations that the EU would institute its own controls on the sector.
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LONDON — Touted by its supporters as the best and cheapest way to fight global warming, carbon trading is losing momentum amid the uncertainty created by the failure of the Copenhagen summit meeting and President Barack Obama’s political troubles in the United States.
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A report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee is alarming that the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has not been not successful in delivering required investment in the low carbon technologies.
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The campaign to reform the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) will secure an important new ally today with the release of a major report from the Environmental Audit Committee of MPs that will urge the government to consider introducing a carbon tax designed to guarantee a minimum price for carbon.
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