As some of you might have noticed, we have added links to a few valuable resources below the carbon footprint calculators on the extreme right. The first few links point to Climate Exchanges and related sites. These can give you updated carbon prices and some valuable news too though the news are rare from these sites. Below these are links to some news sites. PointCarbon is pretty famous and I guess most of you already know about it. But if you haven’t seen ReutersInteractive, that’s a must see. In a sentence, it’s a community of carbon professionals. You will see news, interviews, charts, polls, and much more. Michael Szabo, the editor there, is a really helpful guy; it didn’t take me long to learn this (I had a few email exchanges with him). And the best thing about it is it’s free unlike many other big players, but you will need a company email address to login (free email address like @yahoo/@gmail won’t do). Also check out and .
If you know of any other useful resources, feel free to share in comments or send me an email at alaghari82 (you know what comes here) yahoo d0t com.
Top Stories
Wired News
NASA is getting ready to launch a first-of-its-kind satellite that can …
Climex News Update
The European Parliament’s environment committee voted to let energy and manufacturing companies import 18 percent more emission credits through 2020 to cut the cost of stricter domestic caps on pollution …
Hemscott, UK
Around half of the UK’s largest companies now report their annual greenhouse gas emissions, but only one quarter have real …
European Parliament (press release), EU
The Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), …
Fiji Times, Fiji
Approval has been given for the reactivation of the Carbon Trading in Fiji under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …
Reuters
Japan’s electric power industry will likely buy more than double a planned 190 million tonnes of carbon credits from …
Financial Times, UK
European legislators have committed about €10bn ($13.6bn, £7.7bn) to help build as many as a dozen …
guardian.co.uk
The number of leading British companies willing to disclose their carbon footprint to City investors has fallen this year, research reveals today. Only 58% of companies in the FTSE-250 index responded to …
Global
Your Petrochemical News (press release), UK
Mexican state oil company Pemex’s gas and petrochemicals subsidiary PGPB has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Norway’s state oil firm StatoilHydro for …
CSRwire.com (press release)
We stand at a unique crossroads in history: the transition from polluting, resource constrained, fossil-based energy systems to those built on sustainable, …
Science Daily (press release)
In one of the first comparisons of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that wetlands in tropical areas are able to absorb …
Reuters South Africa
Poland’s leading paper maker Mondi Swiecie, a unit of the South African paper producer Mondi, will seek higher carbon dioxide permits, …
Reuters South Africa
Forest protection can help fight climate change but any UN-led projects must also …
Steel Business Briefing (subscription/Free Trial), UK
The global steel industry is responsible for about 4-5% of man-made carbon dioxide emissions, according to new numbers from the World Steel Association, …
Asia
guardian.co.uk
Japan is looking to over 1000 companies, including big firms, to join in a local over-the-counter market for carbon …
CSR Asia, Hong Kong
ASrIA - the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia – recently launched the 2008 results of the …
Australasia
WA Business News (subscription), Australia
THE list of carbon-offset firms in Western Australia continues to grow, as a new player with a combined horticultural/carbon sink project looks to enter the …
Canada
Oilweek Magazine, Canada
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is upset with parts of the federal Conservative platform that talk about trade in carbon credits and encourages the …
Europe
EUbusiness (press release), UK
Poland is calling for a more gradual introduction of EU measures to slash CO2 emissions by 2020, a government spokesman said Tuesday. …
PrintWeek, UK
Paper manufacturer Södra Cell has lowered its carbon footprint to 100kg of carbon dioxide per tonne of pulp produced. The move follows a series of …
Prdomain Business Register (press release), India
BASF was awarded the European Responsible Care® Award by the European chemical industry association CEFIC for its Carbon Balance on October 4, …
just-auto.com (subscription), UK
Despite vehicle manufacturers’ claims that it will be difficult for them to achieve 120g/km fleet average CO2 emissions by 2012, as the European Commission …
Reuters
EU lawmakers voted on Tuesday to introduce carbon emissions caps on electricity generators, in a shock move which if enacted …
UK
Regen.net (subscription), UK
Britain must replace conventional fossil fuel plants with other technologies to produce power over the next 20 years, the government’s climate change …
DEA direct, UK
Domestic energy assessors could have a part to play in helping the UK meet more exacting targets for reducing the nation’s carbon emissions. The independent Committee on Climate …
eGov monitor
An innovative £100m programme to research and develop low carbon vehicles has been launched by local …
USA
PR Web (press release), WA
TeraVista Systems has joined and participated in the first Soil Carbon Sequestration Standard Committee that was held last month in Des Moines, Iowa. …
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