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Weekly CDM and VER market summary - 22-28 June 2009

Posted in Global on July 2, 2009

| Sourced From Businessgreen.com |

The VER market picked up over the week with positive US legislative news leading to optimism of a global emissions trading scheme. The change in mood has seen the return of smaller participants and led to the reemergence of previously dormant market locations.

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Venture investment in green tech jumps -report

Posted in Global on July 2, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (Reuters) - Venture capital investment in green technology worldwide jumped 43 percent in three months to $1.2 billion in the second quarter, Greentech reported on Tuesday.

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Carbon trading opportunity for local firms

Posted in Global on June 30, 2009

| Sourced From Bworldonline.com |

LOCAL FIRMS should continue to invest in eco-friendly projects that can earn tradeable carbon credits as prices for these are likely to rise and foreign buyers are especially keen to source from the Philippines, experts said at a forum on Friday.

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Green carbon trade market could mean billions for telecom, IT

Posted in Global on June 29, 2009

| Sourced From Telephonyonline.com |

Telecom and IT companies are well-positioned to tap the potentially $700-billion market for lowering carbon dioxide emissions, according to Bill St. Arnaud, chief research officer at CANARIE, the Canadian research house.

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Climate change heats carbon software firms

Posted in Global on June 28, 2009

| Sourced From Bizjournals.com |

Competition is heating up in the carbon accounting software market.
Interest among investors and customers about global warming is pushing companies to take action to monitor energy use and emissions. And that has catalyzed a cluster of Bay Area companies, ranging from startups with A-list management teams to offshoots of enterprise software giants like Oracle Corp., to help companies track and manage their emissions and energy use.

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Mexico open to carbon credits at climate talks

Posted in Global on June 25, 2009

| Sourced From Forbes.com |

JIUTEPEC, Mexico — Mexico said Tuesday it is open to including a link to the existing carbon-credit market in the framework of a new global “green” financing fund that is gaining traction as a response to climate change.

The proposal for the new $10 billion fund could partly displace the largely private carbon-credit market, but officials suggested the credits could be used within the intergovernmental fund.

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Cathay Pacific, Dragonair purchase additional carbon offsets n

Posted in Global on June 25, 2009

| Sourced From Domain-b.com |

Cathay Pacific Airways and sister airline Dragonair today announced the purchase of 20,000 tonnes of carbon emissions reductions from offset retailer J P Morgan Climate Care.

The offstes are for Cathay’s FLY greener offset programme.

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Ozone hole reduces atmospheric CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean

Posted in Global on June 25, 2009

| Sourced From Physorg.com |

The increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere due to human activities is partly responsible for global warming. By absorbing almost 15% of anthropogenic carbon released every year, the Southern Ocean is one of the main sinks for atmospheric CO2. But its effectiveness is decreasing, even as the level of atmospheric carbon jas continued to increase over the last few years. Until now, the saturation of the carbon sink in the Southern Ocean has not been correctly simulated by the climate models used.

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Rich countries will only cut CO2 emissions 10-14 percent

Posted in Global on June 24, 2009

| Sourced From En.cop15.dk |

The industrialized countries’ pledges to limit their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 are far from the cuts recommended by experts to avoid global warming.

In the run-up to a new UN climate pact due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the industrialized countries – viewed as a whole – have now promised cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases between 10 and 14 percent below 1990 levels, Reuters calculations show.

“These are very weak targets overall,” says Knut Alfsen, Research Director of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, according to Reuters.

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Carbon trading is key to Africa’s economic future

Posted in Global on June 24, 2009

| Sourced From Bizcommunity.com |

With the help of Envirotrade, a company helping rural African communities generate carbon credits, Africa will be able to earn billions of dollars that developed countries have been collecting for years. As the continent contributing the least to climate change yet suffering the majority of its effects, Envirotrade aims to gain the finances the continent is due.

Generating carbon credits through changes in the ways African farmers use their land, Envirotrade is assisting in the sale of those credits in global carbon markets. Carbon credits are sold to companies and individuals seeking to offset their carbon footprints, both nationally and internationally.

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Mexico: ‘Green fund’ better than carbon credits

Posted in Global on June 24, 2009

| Sourced From Forbes.com |

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon made a push Monday for his proposal for a $10 billion “green fund” as a more efficient way to fight climate change than carbon credits.

Calderon spoke at the opening of the latest session of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together representatives of 19 countries and the European Union that together account for 80 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

“The current carbon credits would not have to disappear, but they are not an efficient mechanism,” Calderon said, noting that the credits market “has to match an industry that wants to pollute with another” that has projects to compensate or reduce gas emissions.

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Crediting carbon to create more emissions?

Posted in Global on June 23, 2009

| Sourced From Thejakartapost.com |

Currently, climate protection and emissions reduction projects and initiatives have become a global priority. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) mechanisms on reducing global emissions, grows significantly on fertile land in developing countries.

By comparison, the number of registered projects in India has increased from 356 per September 2008 to 429 now. Within the same period, 260 registered projects in China have become 574 projects. This puts China’s ranking (now 34.47 percent) in the number of projects raised, from second to first, usurping India (now 25.77 percent).

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Industrial nations’ CO2 targets too weak - experts

Posted in Global on June 23, 2009

* Industrialised nations’ CO2 cuts just 10-14 pct vs 1990

* Russia 2020 goal could add to CO2 pressures

* Not enough to avoid “dangerous” climate change-UN chief

OSLO/LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - Pledges by industrialised nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 fall far short of the deep cuts widely advocated for tackling global warming, experts said on Monday.

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Fears CO2 cuts hurt economy exaggerated - U.N.

Posted in Global on June 23, 2009

VIENNA (Reuters) - Fears that deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will harm the economy are exaggerated but Washington’s ability to cut is limited by political pragmatism, the U.N. climate panel chief said on Monday.

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Carbon Recycling: An Alternative to Carbon Capture and Storage

Posted in Global on June 22, 2009

| Sourced From Industryweek.com |

Options being developed globally include the biochemical conversion of CO2 into algal biofuel, the thermochemical conversion into methanol and the biocatalytic or solar photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to fuels.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being hailed as the answer to the globe’s most pressing question: what to do with the 27 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted yearly from the burning of fossil fuels? Touted as the most promising interim solution to deal with the greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, CCS still remains unproven, costly and will not be commercially available for another 10-20 years. Meanwhile scientists are exploring alternatives to CCS by capitalizing on CO2 as a commodity instead of treating it as a waste.

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    Source: APX; CCX; CAR; TZ1

    22nd - 28th June 2009

    APX GS Registry: 104 (+2) Projects Listed

    APX VCS 34 (+2) Projects with Issued VCUs

    CCX CFI weekly volume 682,000Mt (+445,000Mt)

    Climate Action Reserve 43 Projects Listed (8 Issued)

    TZ1 VER Registry 38 VCS (+0) Public View Projects

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    Source: UNFCCC

    22nd - 28th June 2009

    Total Issued CERs: 308.1Mt Issuances: 1149

    Total CERs Requested: 5.29Mt Host countries: 55

    Registered Projects: 1693 Requests: 60

    From MF Global Weekly CDM & VER Market Summary

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