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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – Organizers of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games said on Monday they are confident they can find sponsors to help with the estimated C$4.5 million ($3.6 million) cost of keeping the event from adding to global warming.
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VANCOUVER — The 2010 Olympics are turning to the private sector to help offset carbon emissions during the Winter Games.
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Inclusion of forest conservation in a market-based mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions would crash carbon prices by swamping the market with cheap credits, claims a new report from Greenpeace.
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THE head of Australia’s biggest waste group is a climate change sceptic who believes the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme is “ill-founded and premature”.
Terry Peabody, chairman of Brisbane-based Transpacific Industries, called for the carbon reduction plan to be pushed back to 2012.
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NOKIA Siemens Networks, the first telecommunications network provider to join the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Climate Savers program, has announced that the company is on track to achieving its targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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Offices must reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 8 percent by fiscal 2014, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided, as part of widespread emissions reductions across the capital beginning fiscal 2010.
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New Delhi (PTI): Agriculture, a significant mitigator of greenhouse gases, should be included in the global climate change negotiations to be held at Copenhagen, Denmark in December, a U.S. think-tank has said.
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Nyungwe forest evokes images of lush vegetation, home to rare species of orchids and monkeys as well as a multitude of birds. Yet it is so much more. Amongst others, it is an air purification factory. So who is going to pay for a job well done?
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Geneva – Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce CO2 emissions over the continent’s airspace by half a million tonnes a year, aviation industry groups said Tuesday.
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POSCO said that it will secure carbon credits in South America through its new subsidiary in Uruguay. It added that it recently established overseas subsidiary called Eurotaly SA in Uruguay to purchase 20,000 hectares of land for afforestation to secure carbon credits.
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March 31 (Bloomberg) — Awarding tradable credits to countries that reduce deforestation will cause carbon prices to plummet worldwide and may make global warming worse by pulling investors away from renewable energy, an economic study found.
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The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has signed an agreement to buy carbon credits from Shenhua Group, China’s largest coal miner, under the clean development mechanism (CDM), a statement on the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission’s website said on Tuesday.
Customers can choose from eight carbon offset projects to accessorize their handbags.
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March 29, 2009. Elemental Threads, an online retailer selling custom-made handbags, announces an industry-first adoption of
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Origin Energy has announced plans to capture more than 25% of the CO2 output of the Lang Lang BassGas gas plant in Gippsland, Victoria for commercial reuse.
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Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany fell by 1.2 per cent last year, according to figures released by the German government on Sunday. This is a relatively modest drop compared to 2007, especially given industrial contraction was a factor in the decline (EE 11/03/08).
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) methodologies panel, which reviews Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project applications, has recommended that Sasols application to register its feedstock conversion project as a CDM project, be rejected.
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Making their wealth from the non-renewable energy resource natural gas, Qataris learned a little more about the carbon market earlier this month. According to the Gulf Times, UK-based carbon-related firms looking to do business in Qatar were part of the Carbon Market Business Opportunities seminar, held under the auspices of Minister of Environment HE Abdullah Mubarak al-Midhadi and the British Ambassador to Qatar John Hawkins.
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The approval of areas off Australias coast as potential greenhouse gas stores has been claimed as a world first.
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After a debate at FinanceAsia over carbon trading, we turn to an expert to ask these key questions: Is this a bubble that has burst? And will the world reach a climate agreement in Copenhagen this year?
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is set to seal a deal with the Czech Republic next week to buy 40 million metric tons of emissions rights from the east European country via a government-to-government trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol, a government source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, March 30 (Reuters) – The European Union’s technology sector should outpace the rest of the bloc on cutting climate-warming emissions, said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner in charge of information and communication technology (ICT).
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland may receive long-awaited permits for its 2008 carbon dioxide emissions around the middle of next month, a source close to the matter said on Monday.
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NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) – As the world tries to forge a new treaty to slow global warming, care must be taken not to spark trade conflicts between rich and developing countries, a key U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday.
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