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ISLAMABAD—A German delegation Friday called on Minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and discussed matters of mutual interests and future cooperation in railways, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and human resources development.
The delegation comprised German Consular Head Press and Economic Section Dr Gregor Schotten and Minister Counselor Deputy Head of Mission Stephan Roken.
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Improving energy efficiency is our key strategy to mitigate carbon emissions says Dr Amy Khor.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement.
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KUALA LUMPUR – Planned palm oil carbon emission targets will be delayed by at least a year as planters clash with NGOs on calculating the vegetable oil’s environmental impact, officials said on Monday.
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October 2009: The report of the 50th meeting of the Executive Board (EB) of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is now available on the CDM website. The EB held its 50th meeting from 13-16 October 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand, and considered matters relating to CDM afforestation and reforestation projects, small-scale CDM projects, and the registration of CDM projects, among others.
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The most effective way to promote green industry in Asia’s developing nations is to show case studies from similar or neighboring countries, according to Arab Hoballah, a speaker at this week’s International Conference on Green Industry in Asia. The Manila-based conference brought together about 1,000 leaders in politics, business and science to discuss carbon-efficiency, particularly for the lower and middle-income nations in the Asian and Pacific regions. Small and medium enterprises in developing countries in Asia have not, by in large, shown an interest in transitioning into resource-efficient and low-carbon practices.
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IFA 2009: “We want to produce more devices, but consume less energy as a result”
Toshiba, in its IFA2009 press conference, has pledged to cut its CO2 emissions by 120 million tonnes before 2025. The company says that it wants environmental measures to “take a very very strong role” in the company’s future.
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It should be no great surprise to regular TreeHugger readers that one of the big issues with Indonesia and Malaysia converting more and more land to palm oil plantations and claiming that the biodiesel produced is carbon neutral, is in fact that it’s far from the case. These plantations store far less carbon than genuine forest, which means they were probably better left intact than converted to agriculture. Mongabay is highlighting out a study that really drives that point home, and then some. It turns out that palm oil plantations actually store far less carbon as we previously thought:
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The Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives Ministry has encouraged rubber growers to focus more on carbon-credit management.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has vast potential for carbon credit in sugar and cement industries and the ministry of environment is making all possible efforts to realise this potential.
Being a party to Kyoto Protocol, Pakistan is eligible to benefit from the projects under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and exploring carbon credit potential in different industries.
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ISLAMABAD—Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Review Committee in its meeting held under the chairmanship of Secretary Environment has approved 07 CDM projects costing US $ 300.440 millions (Rs.2.410 billion) in energy and waste to heat recovery sectors for reduction of heavy fuel oil usage for power generation.
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BANGKOK — Selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests could be as profitable as converting these areas into palm oil plantations, a study released Friday found.
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SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- BP PLC (BP) and Swedish firm Tricorona have commenced carbon trading operations in Singapore, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang said Tuesday.
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Singapore-based firm says it can use electrified seawater to clean smoke, removing 74 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Although Pakistan was not a big environmental polluter, it was a victim, environmental experts said here on Monday and called on the country’s industrial sector to introduce Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to meet both challenges of energy efficiency improvement as well as control climate change.
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