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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – European carbon prices could test 10-month lows and possibly fall as low as 11 euros a tonne in the next two weeks as European Union member states allocate their 2010 emissions permits to industry, analysts said.

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Posted on March 1, 2010 · in Europe

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No doubt as we contemplate the figure who has rocketed from obscurity to became “the President of Europe”, we have all made silly little jokes about “Mr Rumpy”. After the eight tortuous years it has taken to get the “Constitution for Europe” into place, with all the talk of how vital it was for the EU to have a figurehead to represent Europe on the world stage as the equivalent of the President of the United States, some may now think of the poet Horace’s famous line, parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (”the mountains are in labour, and will give birth to a ridiculous mouse”).

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Posted on November 28, 2009 · in Europe

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The Kyoto protocol allows rich countries to meet their greenhouse gas reduction commitments by investing in projects abroad. But research shows that many of these projects would have happened anyway.

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Posted on November 25, 2009 · in Europe

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The European Commission has approved a reverse payment scheme for VAT charges on carbon trading to reduce the risk of fraud.

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Posted on October 6, 2009 · in Europe

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France, Italy and several other European Union countries weighed their chances of haggling up their EU carbon emissions quotas on Thursday, one day after Poland and Estonia successfully challenged theirs in court.

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Posted on October 1, 2009 · in Europe

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LONDON (Reuters) – European carbon emissions futures climbed to a new four-month high on Friday, tracking crude oil gains and pushing through a key resistance level of 15 euros, traders said.

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Posted on May 13, 2009 · in Europe

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BRUSSELS — Europe’s controversial trading system to cut carbon emissions is showing faint signs of working, according to analysis of preliminary figures released Wednesday by the European Commission.

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Posted on April 2, 2009 · in Europe

BRUSSELS, March 30 (Reuters) – The European Union’s technology sector should outpace the rest of the bloc on cutting climate-warming emissions, said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner in charge of information and communication technology (ICT).

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Posted on March 30, 2009 · in Europe

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The EU’s suggestion that developed nations should cut their emissions by 30 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 is asking too much of the US, American policymakers told their European counterparts during bilateral talks this week.

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Posted on March 18, 2009 · in Global

CANBERRA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Australia’s climate change minister on Friday said she had no concerns about the fall in carbon prices in Europe and said the low price would not force changes to Australia’s plans for carbon trading in 2010.

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Posted on February 27, 2009 · in Top Stories

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Companies in the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) are rumoured to be desperately attempting to raise cash by selling off the bulk of their emissions allowances (EUAs), despite the fact that they will have to buy them back, probably at a higher price, to avoid breaching their emissions cap.

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Posted on February 19, 2009 · in Top Stories

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The officials who created and run the cap-and-trade system for the European Union could use some good news.

“The design of the scheme is working as originally intended by the European Union.”

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Posted on February 17, 2009 · in Global

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The European Commission will not intervene to support the market for European carbon emissions where futures prices have nosedived along with the economic downturn, the EC’s chief climate change negotiator said yesterday.

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Posted on February 14, 2009 · in Global

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TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The European Commission will not intervene to support the market for European carbon emissions where futures prices have nosedived along with the economic downturn, the EC’s chief climate change negotiator said on Friday.

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Posted on February 13, 2009 · in Europe

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Business week reports that despite the acclaim of Europe’s climate-change policies, they aren’t actually cutting carbon.

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Posted on February 12, 2009 · in Top Stories