INDUSTRY consultants in Halton have warned businesses to prepare for carbon trading legislation.
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It might not seem a good time to be an environmentalist. The United Nation’s failure in Copenhagen to impose legally binding targets for countries’ CO2 emissions was a heavy blow to anyone concerned about the state of the planet. And those eager to do their bit have most likely been thwarted by this winter’s relentless cold snap, which is forcing us to burn more fuel just to keep our homes and workplaces habitable.
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California’s Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee says the state should require GHG emitters to buy pollution allowances they’ll need to comply with climate rules, rather than give away the allowances.
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The weak agreement reached at the COP15 climate summit is the direct cause of CO2 quota prices plunging sharply, reports the Financial Times.
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OYSTER BAY, N.Y. – (Business Wire) The growing release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by man-made technologies and processes contributes to changes in global climate. Skeptics call this “alarmism,” or argue that climbing temperatures are the result of a natural cycle of environmental adjustment, but the scientific community is united in saying that carbon emissions are making our planet hotter, and in calling for measures to reduce those emissions.
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal details one of the many problems facing the implementation of carbon markets: the political tampering of an artificial market. According to the story, Russia is demanding that it be able to retain its massive surplus of emissions permits after they expire in 2012. Yet, critics argue that if Russia were to off-load these credits on international carbon markets, it would lead to a collapse in the price of carbon.
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The Carbon Trust has launched a new report outlining the impact of the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) on the airline industry.
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The Dutch government wants to tax residents for every mile they drive to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions. The new green tax would replace taxes on the sales and ownership of autos, AFP reports.
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HUNDREDS of firms could face an administrative nightmare next year when the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment comes into force.
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Lord Smith of Finsbury, the Chairman of the Environment Agency (EA), said introducing a “personal carbon allowances” in the next 20 years could help the UK meet ambitious climate change targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Executives at a big electronics firm were in a quandary. With the sluggish economy, they were shipping fewer items, but they still had the same delivery contracts, meaning they were sending out trucks half-empty and needlessly burning fuel.
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You’d better not have a big carbon print in Great Britain. If some of the enviros get their way, you will have to pay more every time you exceed your government carbon allotment.
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Drivers, households and holidaymakers should be hit with a carbon tax to tackle global warming, the head of the Environment Agency will say today.
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Today Greenpeace issues a report critical of carbon offsets from forest preservation. In the late 1990s a group of environmentalists and polluters started the first widespread experiment to control Climate Change through forest preservation. The Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project did save the biologically plentiful region of 6,000 square miles from logging. Yet it has failed to reach its carbon reduction target.
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Councils will no longer have to account for the financial implications of the government’s carbon trading scheme in next year’s budgets, civil servants have revealed.
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