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EU lawmakers vote to save factories from carbon cost
guardian.co.uk, UK
Influential EU lawmakers sought in a key vote on Tuesday to ease the cost for factories of meeting greenhouse …
Reuters
Top energy advisors to the two US presidential candidates agreed on Monday on the need to convert …
Reuters
Oil-rich Norway will spend 1.9 billion crowns ($308.7 million) on carbon capture and storage (CCS) next year as it seeks to develop …
Subscription (Carbon News, New Zealand)
Carbon prices edged up slightly and remained relatively stable throughout the session, given the recent financial market turmoil. Oil was slightly firmer, …
Carbon Positive, Netherlands
Time is now short for forestry projects to deliver any worthwhile volume of carbon credits to the CER market by 2012. While the bottlenecks that have held …
Reuters
The world’s second-largest stock market is poised to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on a carbon trading platform but …
Global
World First Travel Insurance, UK
Businesses are looking to cut their carbon footprint by benefiting from the use of video conferences, according to the World Wide Fund (WWF). …
Manufacturers’ Monthly, Australia
With climate change no longer science fiction but scientific fact, companies are learning that tracking carbon emissions could also provide bottom line …
TransWorldNews (press release), GA
The recent credit panic on Wall Street and it’s spreading throughout the financial world has affected the Carbon Offset market. 4Offsets CEO Fred Weiss has …
ATZonline
Fiat presented eco Drive, a software application that allows drivers to gain better insight into how their driving style influences consumption …
Asia
Inter Press Service, Italy
Little Sri Lanka wants developing countries to be able to trade their debts against the environment destruction and …
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Hong Kong and Singapore are locked in a heavyweight battle to see which will wear the crown of Asia’s first carbon trading hub. An industry expert says that …
Indian Express, India
Shimla, october 06 Moving ahead with his ambitious plan to make Himachal Pradesh a carbon neutral state, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has convened a …
Financial Express, India
The state-run National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (Nabard), which is closely associated with the Centre’s Rs 71000 crore debt waiver scheme …
Australasia
The Age, Australia
ALUMINA, BlueScope Steel, OneSteel and Qantas are among the companies that would be hardest hit under a proposed carbon price of $20 a tonne, according to a …
Canada
ForexTV.com, NY
(CEP News) Ottawa - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says a carbon tax would be bad for Canada and it has launched an online petition campaign to get …
Market Wire (press release)
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:ESR) (”the Company”) is pleased to announce that its wholly …
Europe
Forbes, NY
The global financial turmoil has made European plans to cut carbon emissions steeply by 2020 too costly and its burden should be …
Kathimerini, Greece
A Polish diplomat yesterday refuted reports that the Greek and Polish environment ministers had co-signed an accord involving other European Union states …
MotorTrend Magazine
Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne threatened to withdraw Fiat Group from the ACEA, the European automakers’ lobbying group, today unless the group will …
UK
Exmouth Herald, UK
AIRPORT managers have vowed to make Exeter International ‘carbon neutral’ in a bid to counter concerns from environmentalists. …
Reuters UK
Britain should increase its climate targets to an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, compared to its present 60 percent …
TTG live, UK
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives has partnered with British Airways to offset carbon emissions generated at this week’s global education …
USA
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT
No one ever said going “carbon neutral” would be easy for the University of Vermont. …
Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD
The founder of Maryland’s Carbon Reduction Action Group will speak at the next Boonsboro Recycling Task Force meeting at 7 pm Wednesday, …
SmartBrief, DC
Colorado State University’s Aspen Grille serves carbon-neutral lettuce that is grown in the university’s greenhouses across the street. …
Carbon sequestration conference to be held Oct. 20 at MSU
Montana State University, United States
Anyone who wants to learn more about carbon offsets and carbon sequestration is invited to attend an Oct. 20 conference at Montana State …
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