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Ask 500 average consumers to pick the least energy efficient way to move goods, and they’ll correctly choose airplanes over ships, trucks or trains. Ask them to choose the best of the rest and the whole thing falls apart.
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General Motors argues that when you measure carbon emissions on an oil-well-to-wheel basis, electric vehicles have a larger footprint than gasoline or diesel vehicles.
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Whether it is through public outcries or through software monitoring, pressure on data centers, organizations, and other entities to reduce their carbon emissions is increasing. Perhaps one of the most formidable voices in this anti-carbon movement is that of Greenpeace and several environmental watchdogs.
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According to a letter sent to the US Department of Energy by Gregory Friedman, the Inspector General, there is some risk that $3.4 billion in American
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Foster Refrigerator has become the first refrigeration manufacturer to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.
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DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d24abf/carbon_reduction) has announced the addition of the “Carbon Reduction: Policies, Strategies and Technologies” report to their offering.
(Reuters) – The first carbon credits in Tokyo’s new cap-and-trade scheme traded on Monday for 12,000 yen ($142.2) per tonne, well above market rates for units of the climate-warming gas, Point Carbon News reported.
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AU Optronics has completed the carbon footprint verification on EcoDuo PM220P00, a multi-crystalline photovoltaic module, according to the international carbon footprint standard PAS2050.
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From November, a zero VAT rate put in place as an interim measure to combat scams is being replaced by a new system whereby the customer, rather than the supplier, has to account to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for VAT.
(Reuters) – An emissions trading lobby group has called for the European Commission to clarify rules on UN-backed carbon offset use in the third phase of its emissions trading scheme in order to boost ebbing market confidence. In an open letter to EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard on Tuesday, the International Emissions Trading Association urged the commission to rule the number and types of offsets that scheme participants can use between 2013-2020 should the bloc adopt a deeper 2020 emissions cut target.
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The UN backed Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has suspended carbon credits for shady chemical manufacturers in China that were producing an excess of pollution and then destroying it, all to get credit for doing good.
SINGAPORE, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Australia is the world’s top exporter of coal which generates more than 80 percent of its power, transports most goods by road and cars clog its cities.
But the country has been a laggard in passing a law enshrining a cap on emissions and a market-based trading scheme for carbon pollution.
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The Lancaster Landmark Hotel Company Ltd has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard after taking action on climate change by measuring, managing and reducing its carbon emissions by 2.4% from November 2006 until October 2009 across its UK operations.
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Dick Kelly, CEO of Xcel Energy Inc., is irked that Congress hasn’t raised his taxes.
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EITG has released a new on line tool that allows owners of post 1989 or Kyoto Forest under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme quickly assess the amount of NZU units they would receive if they entered into the ETS.
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As prospects for Congress to pass climate legislation this year dim, states are taking up the charge to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Take last weeks hearings in New Mexico to create a cap on GHGs as an example. New Mexicos Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) held five days of hearing testimony on a proposal by New Energy Economy (NEE). The EIB will hold more hearings to listen to testimony from groups opposed to the NEE proposal.
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UNITED NATIONS An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.
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In case you havent heard, our planet is getting warmer. At what rate it is occurring or how much human activity has to do with the increasing temperatures is a heated debate, pardon the pun. One thing we do know for sure is that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a contributing factor in global warming, and humans are responsible for a large portion of these emissions.
* Says newer plants less efficient than older ones under CDM
* Warns against suspending CDM methodology before int’l pact
* CDM Watch says World Bank protecting its investments
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – The World Bank has defended its investment in chemical plants accused by green groups of raising production of greenhouse gas HFC-23 with the aim of incinerating it to get extra carbon offsets worth millions of dollars. Approved under the Kyoto Protocol’s $2.7 billion Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme, 19 plants mainly in China and India are issued offsets by the UN for incinerating the refrigerant waste gas called hydrofluorocarbon-23.
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As companies around the world begin to focus on including corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals in their annual reports, a surprising number of companies in the United Kingdom do not even understand the company’s carbon footprint. With a portion of a typical CSR report focused on reducing ones carbon footprint, actually knowing this number would be a good place to start.
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The Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) created by President Barack Obama (D) has issued a report that includes recommendations on how to overcome barriers to the widespread cost- effective deployment of CCS within 10 years. CCS represents technologies for capturing, compressing, transporting, and permanently storing power plant and industrial source emissions of carbon dioxide.
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POSCO, the worlds fourth largest steelmaker, will introduce a system for trading carbon credits within the company.
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SINGAPORE : Industry watchers say Asia’s renewable energy market will be worth some US$50-55 billion over the next 5 to 10 years.
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Prices of carbon credits generated by developing countries may rise over 2010 as regulators review industrial gas projects and Chinese wind energy facilities, fueling speculation that supplies will slow.
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