Posts Tagged ‘emissions’
22 May 2012
The question of which energy technologies generate the most greenhouse-gas emissions — cradle to grave — now has a more precise answer, thanks to a meta-analysis of life cycle assessment studies done by the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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21 May 2012
As a small, maritime trading nation Britain has always been quite a way away from key international markets. Our ability to visit far off places and people, and their access to us, has always been at the very heart of the UK’s ability to ‘punch above our weight in the world’, whether that’s commercially, culturally or diplomatically, writes Ben Caldecott, head of European policy at investment firm Climate Change Capital.
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17 May 2012
Rich countries must do more in providing equity finance and technology to the developing world, it has been stated at the UNFCCC conference in Bonn.
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9 May 2012
The use of coal in the US dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade in 2011, including falling below 40 per cent of power generation in the last two months of the year, which is the smallest proportion since 1978.
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3 May 2012
A US-based company specialised in capturing emissions from power plants is partly through a fundraising round and is looking to raise a further $1.9m to hit its $3m target.
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25 April 2012
Edward Davey, UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has warned that tough fiscal conditions are leading to a slowdown in growth concerning green investment and argued everyone needs to make an effort to insure clean energy soars.
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20 April 2012
UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Energy Minister Edward Davey have called for a European carbon floor price and a more aggressive emissions target.
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18 April 2012
Japanese electronics giant Mitsubishi has unveiled its Seventh Environmental Plan, a three-year strategy to make the company more sustainable.
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12 April 2012
The International Energy Agency has laid down suggestions for policies that will catalyse the commercialisation of carbon capture and storage technology.
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30 March 2012
The Department of Energy and Climate Change reports that UK carbon emissions have fallen to their lowest levels since records began over 40 years ago.
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28 March 2012
Coal plants will no longer be able to be built in the US without costly special equipment to lower their carbon dioxide emissions, under new proposals by the country’s Environmental Protection Agency.
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27 March 2012
UK government plans to force companies to declare the scale of their emissions have been put on hold and could be abolished, Environment Minister Caroline Spelman is due to tell Parliament this week.
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1 March 2012
A group of prominent investors have called on the European Central Bank to investigate how the bloc’s exposure to polluting and environmentally damaging investments may pose a systemic risk to the region’s financial system.
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8 February 2012
US utility FirstEnergy will close three coal-fired power plants in West Virginia due to the recently finalised US Environmental Protection Agency Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
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7 February 2012
New statistics have revealed that UK greenhouse gas emissions covered by the Kyoto protocol were estimated to be 590.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2010, 3.1 per cent higher than 2009 when the figure was 572.5 million tonnes.
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22 December 2011
Global private equity firm Carlyle has bought The Sniffers, a Belgian provider of emission monitoring and related services, from majority owner Creafund. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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5 December 2011
The International Energy Agency has said more needs to be done in order to halve carbon dioxide emissions from new cars by 2030, a goal set by the Green Fuel Economy Initiative.
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5 December 2011
The UK could be the first country to give customers the facility to choose their airline based on emissions and other environmental factors.
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10 November 2011
The European Environment Agency has released a report on transport emissions with a roadmap listing suggestions for a set of quantitative targets for vehicle emissions.
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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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