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Thailand has the potential to draw investments from Australia in the clean energy and environment sector under the Rudd government’s carbon cluster initiative targeting Southeast Asian nations and India.

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Posted on January 26, 2010 · in Australasia

Carbon trading, according to investigative journalist Mark Schapiro, is now the fastest-growing commodities market on earth.

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Posted on January 25, 2010 · in Global

Political leaders signed a watered-down agreement this weekend with no future roadmap to international emissions trading.
However, President Barack Obama is likely to use the US’s commitment to lowering its emissions as a way of forcing his cap-and-trade bill through the Senate in the spring.

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Posted on December 22, 2009 · in UK

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) – one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Conference of the Parties (COP) – has formally decided to punt its decision on the CCS question until COP16 in Mexico next year, or perhaps even COP17 in South Africa in 2011.

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Posted on December 19, 2009 · in Global

Viewlocity Technologies recently announced that Avaya (News – Alert), an international provider of enterprise communications systems and solutions, had chosen Viewlocity Technologies’ CarbonView solution to effectively gauge and track their carbon emissions for the company’s worldwide operations.

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Posted on December 7, 2009 · in Global

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SAO PAULO, Brazil and WORCESTER, MA, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES; TSX: XWE), an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced a new partnership agreement with SOCIALCARBON(C) Standard, one of the world’s top voluntary standards. The alliance paves the way for more projects with the SOCIALCARBON imprimatur to be posted on the World Green Exchange, one of the world’s largest primary carbon marketplaces.

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Posted on November 21, 2009 · in Press Releases

LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – EDF Trading has signed a deal with renewable energy company Bionersis to buy carbon credits from four landfill gas projects in Latin America for an undisclosed amount, the EDF (EDF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) subsidiary said on Monday.

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Posted on November 18, 2009 · in UK

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A UN case study of a CDM reforestation project in central Africa provides some valuable insights into two familiar obstacles in the carbon project development space. First, is the difficulty of establishing CDM projects in the afforestation and reforestation sector, and second, the barriers to getting any sort of carbon project up and running in Africa, a continent poorly represented in the CDM and voluntary carbon markets now worth hundreds of billions worldwide.

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Posted on October 30, 2009 · in Global

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The Government needs a more radical approach to financing low carbon projects to ensure carbon targets are met, according to a report by an environmental lobby group.

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Posted on October 19, 2009 · in UK

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Two recent joint missions from three development finance institutions helped Thailand identify low carbon projects that could be eligible for Clean Technology Fund financing.

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Posted on September 2, 2009 · in Asia

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EcoSecurities’ Lisa Ashford argues that the trend towards sidelining small-scale emissions reduction projects could be damaging many firms’ offsetting strategies

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Posted on August 17, 2009 · in Global

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PARIS — Climate change is speeding up the release of carbon dioxide from frigid peatlands in the sub-Arctic, fuelling a vicious circle of global warming, according to a study to be published Thursday.

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Posted on July 31, 2009 · in Global

HALIFAX — Funding of $2.6 million has been approved for the latest round of projects in Nova Scotia that aim to reduce harmful air emissions.

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Posted on October 21, 2008 · in Canada, Top Stories