Environmentalists have traditionally seen Gulf countries as pantomime villains when it comes to tackling climate change.
This view is unlikely to have changed in light of a rather non-committal approach from nations in the region, in particular to extensive talks on establishing a legally-binding global agreement on cutting carbon emissions in Copenhagen in December last year.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
· in Asia
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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Posted on March 16, 2010
· in UK
March 10 (Bloomberg) — Carbon dioxide permits to be auctioned today in the U.S. Northeast might attract a record low price amid curbed energy demand and falling trading volumes in the regional emissions market.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
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March 15 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration might pursue a carbon-trading system under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass cap-and-trade legislation that allows companies to buy and sell the right to pollute, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said today.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Loopholes in the United Nations climate treaties could actually amount to an increase in global climate-warming emissions and the chance to rein in temperatures may be slipping away, a draft European Union report showed.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
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China is by far the largest “exporter” of carbon dioxide emissions, as seen in this map of the net flow of emissions embodied in trade among the major exporting and importing countries. Arrows indicate direction and magnitude of flow; numbers are megatons (millions of tons). Credit: Steven Davis/Carnegie Institution for Science
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Posted on March 14, 2010
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March 8 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration has no plans to set up a “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass legislation doing so, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
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Posted on March 14, 2010
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BEIJING, Mar. 7, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) — Premier Wen Jiabao has said in his government report given on Friday that the nation backs development on low-carbon technology and fostering low-carbon-related industries and consumption.
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Posted on March 14, 2010
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* California and Ontario, Canada are powerhouse economies
* Many details still to be sorted out
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 (Reuters) – As U.S. prospects for a national climate change bill fade, five U.S. states and Canadian provinces are on track to start a cap-and-trade market for carbon dioxide in 2012, say officials who see fading federal momentum boosting regional efforts.
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Posted on March 14, 2010
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U.S. EPA sent its final reconsideration yesterday of a George W. Bush-era memorandum detailing when the government should regulate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial facilities to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.
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Posted on March 13, 2010
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A major study for the UK government has cast doubt over claims that rising temperatures are causing soil to pump greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fuelling global warming.
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Posted on March 13, 2010
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The top 10 national forests for storing greenhouse gases in the United States are in the Pacific Northwest and southeast Alaska, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Wilderness Society.
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Posted on March 12, 2010
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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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Posted on March 12, 2010
· in Australasia