It was with bewilderment that I listened to the RTE news last Friday about what science boffins working for the EU had to say about Ireland’s carbon dioxide emissions.
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March 12 (Bloomberg) — The spread between European Union emission allowances and comparable UN credits widened to the most in almost a month on concern that Hungary’s sale of recycled credits may undermine markets.
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The Utah Senate on Monday refused to support a voluntary greenhouse gas reduction market that one senator said could help municipalities and service districts make money by reducing pollution.
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Lisa Jackson, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency, went to the National Press Club today to make the Obama administration’s case that environmental regulation, such as reducing carbon emissions, would be good for the economy.
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), the monopoly power and water utility in the emirate of Dubai, is seeking projects that could yield a lucrative supply of carbon credits for trading on European markets.
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The Federal Court of Australia has declared that Prime Carbon Pty Ltd made false or misleading representations concerning the supply of its services in relation to the sale of carbon credits.
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March 10 (Bloomberg) — A forestry and carbon hedge fund proposed by Athamas SA will focus on wood rather than carbon credits after United Nations climate talks in December failed to set international targets after 2012.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Steadfast Networks (http://steadfast.net) announced on Tuesday it has purchased enough carbon offset credits to offer a 100 percent carbon offset for its staff commuting, office usage, core infrastructure, networking equipment, shared web hosting, VPS hosting, and backup services.
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March 4 (Bloomberg) — Regulators overseeing the world’s second-biggest emissions market are “concerned” that low prices for emissions credits are sapping support for carbon trading, a UN board member said.
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3 March 2010: The World Bank has presented Africa’s first large-scale forestry project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The announcement was made on the margins on the annual Africa Carbon Forum, which is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 3-5 March 2010.
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An emissions trading seminar is being held in Invercargill tomorrow to explain to Southlanders how carbon credits could affect them.
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(KCPW News) The Utah Senate has shot down a bill that would allow cities, counties and special districts to trade carbon credits if they convert garbage otherwise bound for the landfill into fertilizer. Some Utah facilities already participate in a voluntary program called the Chicago Climate Exchange, but it’s unclear whether state code allows it. On the Senate floor yesterday, Republican Senator Curt Bramble argued that passing a bill clarifying its legality would send the wrong message.
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China may start its first carbon cap-and-trade system for energy use in buildings in Tianjin by June, Bloomberg reports.
The northeast port city of Tianjin plans to impose a mandatory limit on energy used to heat buildings, John Shi, chief executive officer of the carbon credit trader Arreon Carbon U.K. Ltd., said in an interview with Bloomberg. Property managers able to reduce energy use to below the limit will earn credits they can then sell, he said.
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1 March 2010 | It’s been six weeks since Ecosystem Marketplace published State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009: Taking Root & Branching Out, the first-ever survey of the global marketplace for carbon offsets that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promote more efficient land-use.
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When carbon trading becomes commonplace in the UK commencing in less than a month’s time (1st of April 2010) and eventually worldwide in an effort to put climate change in check, companies will have to make large financial decisions. Will companies buy or sell carbon credits or invest in carbon reducing projects or technologies? To make these decisions, companies will need specialised software to track and analyse their carbon emissions and carbon abatement programs, as well as gaining access to carbon trading markets to buy and sell carbon credits.
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