Posts Tagged ‘carbon credits’
31 October 2011
A UK-based cleantech-focused investment company said it is targeting strategic sales of certain assets as it aims to return capital to shareholders.
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23 February 2011
A leaked document suggests that Europe is considering raising its target for emissions cuts from 20 per cent (below 1990 levels) to 25 or even 30 per cent, according to Reuters.
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23 February 2011
The European Commission has released details of a number of measures it plans to take to prevent a repeat of January’s carbon permit thefts.
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10 January 2011
The Carbon Trade Exchange and the American Carbon Registry are to establish an interface to promote the trading of voluntary carbon credits.
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9 November 2010
The world’s largest programme of investment in low carbon and renewable energy demonstration projects has been launched by the European Commission, which has issued an initial call for proposals.
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25 October 2010
Plans by the UK government to take £1bn from the sale of carbon credits under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme have been described as a ‘one-dimensional tax on inefficiency’.
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13 September 2010
The president of Japan-based power utility Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), Masataka Shimizu, said it is too soon to raise the country’s carbon tax and indicated it would have to pass on the costs to customers if an increase was brought in by the government, according to reports.
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1 September 2010
In its first transaction in Baltics, the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment Bank, has agreed to buy carbon credits from a group of wind farms operated by OÜ Nelja Energia.
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31 August 2010
Russia has submitted its first emission reduction project for registration under the Kyoto Protocol’s joint implementation mechanism, according to the United Nations (UN).
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30 April 2010
Blue Sphere Corporation, an emission reduction project integrator, has launched a new subsidiary, Blue Sphere USA, to implement its plan to enter the agricultural methane reduction business.
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28 January 2010
Spanish energy and infrastructure company Acciona Group's renewable energy subsidiary Acciona Energy's Oklahoma, US-based Red Hills wind farm is the first in the US to be validated and registered under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), which provides a global standard for the approval of credible voluntary offsets.
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4 January 2010
South African banking group, Old Mutual Group subsidiary Nedbank, and international non-governmental organisation Wildlife Works Incorporated, are to sign a multi-million pound agreement to launch the first African carbon credit scheme, according to the bank.
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20 April 2009
The UK government will continue with its Carbon Offsetting Fund which seeks to offset emissions through the purchase of carbon credits.
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26 November 2008
Alter Energy Group (AEG) has formally engaged Anemone Green Capital (AGC) to manage the Kyoto Protocol process for its renewable energy projects.
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