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hvg.eu, Hungary
European Allowances for December delivery (EUAs) were up 64 cents or 2.9 percent to 22.68 euros a tonne at 1239 GMT, after opening at 22.44 euros. …
Science Daily (press release)
With steelworks around the world emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide, scientists are reporting that a byproduct of steel …
CoStar
Sustainability issues have dominated the news coming out of ProLogis to an unusual degree in the past few weeks, and that’s saying something for one of the commercial real estate industry’s greenest …
Tri State Observer, PA
Launched by Southern California Edison and The Climate Registry, Cool Planet Project rewards the installation of large energy-saving projects and promote …
International Herald Tribune, France
Low-cost airlines claimed Monday they will not make windfall profits from a trading program intended to limit their greenhouse gas …
RedOrbit, TX
Swedish electricity generator Vattenfall has reported that the electricity generation companies in Europe, Canada, the US, Australia and Japan have agreed …
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Business Green, UK
The global steel industry is making good progress in its efforts to accurately record the scale of its carbon footprint, according to an update from the …
Carbon Positive, Netherlands
The carbon market has continued to attract capital and grow strongly despite the financial turmoil of recent months, according to new analysis, …
Financial Express, India
Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate …
Sunday Business Post, Ireland
The ESB is exploring ways of supporting a move to carbon-neutral vehicles, including electric cars, on a countrywide basis. The state electricity firm is …
Asia
Jakarta Post, Indonesia
Twenty percent of registered clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC (2008) are based …
The Korea Times, South Korea
The Ministry of Environment Saturday kicked off a campaign to cut carbon emissions, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect that is …
Fibre2fashion.com, China
The leading manufacturer of high-quality leather, ISA Tan Tec, is the first company in the industry to disclose information on the environmental footprint …
The Standard, Hong Kong
Green Power, in honoring the top five secondary and top five primary schools that took part in the initiative, estimated that was equivalent to the amount …
AME Info, United Arab Emirates
The CO2 offset programme, one of the largest and most comprehensive programmes of its kind undertaken by an automotive manufacturer, enables both the …
Australasia
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand
The latest pronouncement from one of the world’s top economists that a carbon tax is better than an emissions trading scheme to fight global warming is …
Gisborne Herald, New Zealand
Wairoa is not just carbon neutral as a district, it sequesters more carbon than it emits, and this is increasingly a selling point around …
Canada
Real News Network, NY
As Canadians get ready to go the polls on October 14th, More than 230 academic economists have signed an open letter to the leaders of the federal political …
Edmonton Journal
A “bullet” truck pulls up to an oilfield battery near Redwater. The pure carbon dioxide in the long pressurized tank could have gone to the Coca-Cola plant to add the fizz to soft drinks, or to any …
Sarnia Observer, Canada
… we will catch up in the last years of our mandate,” Dion more in the third and fourth year. The important thing for us (is that) at …
Europe
guardian.co.uk, UK
Energy-intensive industries are set to receive a huge cash boost from the European Commission as part of a controversial move to protect Europe’s industrial …
UK
guardian.co.uk, UK
Thomas Cook has agreed to provide information on its carbon footprint after being “named and shamed” by investors last week, amid growing political clamour …
USA
CattleNetwork.com, KS
Improved efficiency in the production of milk has resulted in a huge reduction in the dairy industry’s carbon footprint, making it very …
LocalNews8.com, ID
An official with the state Industrial Siting Council says Carbon County is becoming the energy …
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