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* EUAs likely to trade between 12-15 eur/t this year
* Copenhagen talks will have little impact on prices
* Renewed industrial selling could happen end-Dec., Jan.

LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) – The European carbon market is bracing itself for a storm as another wave of selling by industrial companies is anticipated at the end of December or early January.

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Posted on November 17, 2009 · in Europe

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JP MORGAN subsidiary Carbon Acquisition Company’s £1.05 a share offer to acquire emissions trading group EcoSecurities has become wholly unconditional and is expected to complete during December.

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Posted on November 4, 2009 · in UK

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Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has criticised the National Farmers Federation (NFF) for urging the party to pass an amended emissions trading scheme (ETS).

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Posted on October 22, 2009 · in Australasia

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RIO Tinto has joined the growing chorus against the Rudd government’s proposed emissions trading scheme, with its head of strategy Doug Ritchie calling the scheme foolhardy and saying it could cost the miner $3 billion over a decade.

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Posted on October 17, 2009 · in Australasia

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CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 12 (UPI) — Differing views on the Australian government’s proposed emissions  trading scheme has impacted the country’s politics.

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Posted on October 15, 2009 · in Australasia

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Aarkstore announce a new report “Carbon Trading in Aviation: Birth of a New Market” through its vast collection of market reserach report.
Carbon Trading in Aviation: Birth of a New Market

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Posted on October 9, 2009 · in Press Releases

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EU Member States approved in September a draft Decision listing 164 industrial sectors and sub-sectors deemed to be exposed to ‘carbon leakage’. Under the revised EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) which will apply from 2013, installations in such sectors will receive a higher share of greenhouse gas emission allowances free of charge than other industrial sectors. The final Decision should be adopted by the European Commission by the end of the year following scrutiny by the European Parliament and the Council.

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Posted on October 6, 2009 · in Press Releases

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MORE than 2000 workers will be axed and two coalmines prematurely closed if the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme is passed in its present form, according to Anglo American chief Cynthia Carroll.

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Posted on October 2, 2009 · in Australasia

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An environmental lobby group says the coal company Solid Energy will be entitled to about a billion dollars in taxpayer carbon credits if it goes ahead and builds a lignite-to-urea fertiliser plant in Southland.

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Posted on September 29, 2009 · in Global

LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union’s flagship emissions trading scheme has had no negative impact so far on business costs or competitiveness, a survey by non-governmental organization The Climate Group said on Thursday.

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Posted on September 19, 2009 · in Europe

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Australia has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter per capita, a study shows. China leads as the world’s biggest overall polluter.

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Posted on September 15, 2009 · in Australasia

* Firm hopes to sell A$1.6 billion in forest credits
* But market for such carbon credits small and uncertain
* Analysts point to delivery risk from forest carbon projects

SINGAPORE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – An Australian firm hoping to broker A$1.6 billion in carbon credit sales from saving tropical forests highlights the promise and peril of a U.N.-backed scheme that rewards projects for curbing deforestation.

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Posted on September 14, 2009 · in Global

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Communities living on the coastline will soon be earning cash from the global carbon emissions trade thanks to a pilot project by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute.

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Posted on September 10, 2009 · in Global

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NATIONALS Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has dismissed the Opposition alternative to the Government’s emissions trading scheme, saying Labor won’t buy changes because it wants a double dissolution trigger.

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Posted on August 12, 2009 · in Australasia

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Robert Gottliebsen’s call in Business Spectator of “wrong way, go back” on emissions trading (Our carbon trading blunder, July 30) has sparked an extraordinary response from our readers (The Conversation, July 30) and indicates a depth of opposition to the current official policy that should be deeply worrying to the government.

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Posted on August 7, 2009 · in Australasia