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NEW DELHI: PM Manmohan Singh will on Monday inaugurate Petrotech 2010, India’s biennial jamboree for the global oil industry, being billed as the first carbon-neutral event in the country that will bring together over 4,000 professionals from related sectors on a single platform for finding global equilibrium and greening of an industry often seen as a major contributor to pollution.

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EU carbon trading windfalls under fire from Lord Turner

The carbon trading scheme, which is meant to penalise heavy polluters and reward those who reduce their emissions, currently gives out large numbers of “allowances” to companies for free, which can then be sold for cash on the open market.

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Opinion: 3p on Carbon Trading: Will Markets Solve the Climate Crisis?

Carbon offsets, carbon exchange markets, emissions credits, cap and trade, emissions trading. These assorted terms all describe the various forms of carbon trading, from the individual wishing to offset his or her airline flight, to heavy industry compliance with federally mandated emissions reductions schemes, to the speculator simply plying the market for profit. While the mechanics may differ from one program to the next, the fundamental idea is the same

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New cash goes on offer to cut carbon footprint: Firms can get help for energy savings and special training

FUNDING is available for small firms which want to save money and reduce their carbon footprint.
The Business Resource Efficiency Improvement Grants scheme, funded by Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund, is supported by CO2Sense Yorkshire

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Report: 3 key senators propose jettisoning ‘cap-and-trade’; favor reducing carbon pollution

WASHINGTON (AP) Three key senators are writing a new climate bill without a broad “cap-and-trade” approach to reducing carbon pollution, leaving behind what has been the central feature in the debate over climate legislation for years, The Washington Post reported Friday night.

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Kendal firm given grant to reduce carbon output

A KENDAL firm has been given

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Ruling kills Romanian OTC carbon permit trading

* Romanian regulators class EUAs as financial instruments

* Foreign traders must join exchanges, OTC to suffer

* Ruling, exchange trade to prevent EUA tax fraud -SIBEX

* Traders say move possibly illegal as EU Commission weighs

BUCHREST/LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Romania’s securities regulator have defined European Union carbon permits as financial instruments, a move which will force all its emissions trading onto one of the country’s exchanges.

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