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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 15 (Bloomberg) — The International Emissions Trading Association said sales of ‘recycled’ United Nations carbon credits could damage the reputation of the European Union’s emissions-trading market, the world’s largest.
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March 12 (Bloomberg) — The spread between European Union emission allowances and comparable UN credits widened to the most in almost a month on concern that Hungary’s sale of recycled credits may undermine markets.
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The report by British non-governmental group Sandbag claims that some of Europe’s biggest polluters are choosing the easiest – and arguably less effective – option provided by the European Union’s carbon trading scheme. Instead of cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, a number of them are choosing to purchase so-called carbon offsets — used to finance environmental projects in the developing world.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Loopholes in the United Nations climate treaties could actually amount to an increase in global climate-warming emissions and the chance to rein in temperatures may be slipping away, a draft European Union report showed.
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If you think global warming is a murky business plagued by both doomsters and die-hard science sceptics, you’ll feel at home with the shares of Climate Exchange (LSE: CLE).
As the leading emissions exchange operator in Europe and North America, talk that the carbon market will eventually be bigger than the oil trade puffed up the AIM-listed company’s share price to the increasingly hot high heavens.
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Climate Exchange plc (ECX), the exchange company for trading emissions and environmental products, saw profits grow last year on the back of a big increase in volume of emissions trading.
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Among Europe’s best-selling automotive brands and for the third year running, Fiat Automobiles has logged the lowest average value for CO2 emissions of cars sold in 2009: 127.8 g/km (it was 133.7 g/km in 2008). The accomplishment was recognised by JATO, leading automotive advisory and research service provider. The bottom line shows FIAT ahead of Toyota (130.1 g/km), Peugeot (133.6 g/km), Renault (137.5 g/km), Citroen (137.9 g/km), Ford (140.0 g/km), Opel/Vauxhall (148.9 g/km), Volkswagen (150.4 g/km), AUDI (160.9 g/km) and Mercedes (176.4 g/km).
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March 10 (Bloomberg) — A forestry and carbon hedge fund proposed by Athamas SA will focus on wood rather than carbon credits after United Nations climate talks in December failed to set international targets after 2012.
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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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* 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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