Posts Tagged ‘carbon emissions’
15 December 2011
UK households are expected to suffer from price rises to energy bills partly due to carbon emissions-saving measures being implemented by the government, a new report has found.
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12 December 2011
A last minute breakthrough may finally have been reached at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban last week but sceptics are already questioning whether it will be too little, too late.
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4 November 2011
The owners of a North American carbon offset project developer will look to complete a sale for the company in the first quarter of 2012.
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31 October 2011
The push back against Europe’s plans to charge airlines for their carbon emissions has gained strength with a number of countries outside the European Union calling for a change to the plans.
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26 September 2011
A large proportion of UK companies are also managing the carbon emissions of their suppliers, according to a new study the Carbon Trust.
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19 September 2011
British Airways is expected to be the worst hit European airline when carriers are brought in under the European Union’s carbon emissions trading scheme.
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5 July 2011
Members of European Parliament today voted against the adoption of a new draft resolution that would have seen European Union member states committed to a 30 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020.
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11 February 2011
China’s Vice-Premier, Li Keqiang, has said the country must speed up reforms to improve energy efficiency, contain pollution and ensure it is not overly reliant on foreign energy supplies.
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26 January 2011
Emissions and energy exchange IntercontinentalExchange Futures Europe has reportedly suspended spot carbon trading until February, while its umbrella group ICE exceeded $15tn in credit default swap clearing last week.
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20 January 2011
The European carbon market has been halted until at least mid-next week after reports that security measures had been breached.
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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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17 September 2010
Airline operators in the US may receive federal cash for aeroplane upgrades in exchange for reducing their emissions under a ‘cash for carbon’ scheme proposed by the Aerospace Industries Association.
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16 September 2009
Investment bank JPMorgan Chase has made a £123m takeover bid for Irish company EcoSecurities according to reports.
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4 September 2009
Det Norske Veritas, an independent foundation operating within the environmental sector, initiated a joint industry project a year ago and said just twelve months on, it has already contributed to the CO2 transmission pipelines.
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6 July 2009
Companies are under more pressure than ever to introduce an environmental agenda, especially in light of the UK government's recently introduced Carbon Reduction Commitment, which is set to take effect in April 2010. It is estimated that approximately 5,000 firms will fall under the scheme which is set to reward companies who cut their greenhouse gas emissions and penalise those who do not.
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19 June 2009
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative and former undersecretary of the US Department of Energy, unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants.
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30 April 2009
The UK electricity sector must be decarbonised by 2050 and tougher energy efficiency measures could reduce exposure to volatile energy markets, buying the country time before full decarbonisation takes place, according to the latest report by the UK Energy Research Centre.
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20 March 2009
Mike O'Brien, the UK energy and climate change minister, has stressed the importance of creating an energy supply that is predictable, adequate and financially-viable.
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5 December 2008
Retaining tropical rain forests is a more effective way of combating climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, according to the latest study in the journal Conservation Biology.
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27 November 2008
With the US on the brink of change following Barack Obama's historic triumph in the presidential election, those in the clean energy space were left considering what this would mean for the US' burgeoning green economy. In a web video released last week for the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit, the President-elect pledged new leadership to address global climate change.
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