Carbon Market Headlines, Tue Mar 2, 2010

Kendal firm given grant to reduce carbon output

A KENDAL firm has been given £22,800 to make it more efficient.

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New car market gets greener with reduction in carbon dioxide emissions

AUSTRALIA’S new car market is getting greener, having achieved the lowest average carbon dioxide emissions on record.

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Utah Legislature: Carbon credit bill gets blocked again by Chris Buttars

SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Chris Buttars is the latest GOP lawmaker to put a hold on a bill that would allow Utah communities to sell carbon credits.

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Jaguar Land Rover in new carbon technology project

Jaguar Land Rover has been confirmed as one of seven partners in a new Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project

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Drax says it’s ‘condemned’ to carbon future

Drax, which unveiled full-year pre-tax profits down 64pc at £158m, is currently agonising over whether to invest in £2bn projects to burn natural materials such as wood chips. It also adds biomass to its Yorkshire-based coal-fired plant, which generates 7pc of the UK’s electricity.

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Opinion: Copenhagen’s lack of detail is a blow for low- carbon business

JUST over two months since the final all-night negotiations which went into finalising the Copenhagen Accord, viewpoints on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change conference (COP15) have been extremely mixed. On the positive side, the Copenhagen Accord has been described as an “important political tool”, “vital first step”, or in the words of President Obama, a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough”. On the negative side, however, the descriptions have ranged from “climate change scepticism in action”, “fiasco”, “death warrant” or more graphically, a “colossal pile of fudge”.

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Report: Wyo formation could hold 50 years of CO2

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A new report by the Wyoming State Geological Survey says an underground formation in southwestern Wyoming could hold as much carbon dioxide as 50 years of emissions from two large coal-fired power plants.

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EU industry CO2 fell 11 pct in 2009 -analysts

LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions by companies regulated under the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme fell by 11 percent last year in the wake of the economic downturn, analysts said on Thursday.

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Opinion: Cleantech Forum: A New Way to Wire Lights, CO2-Powered Air Conditioning and Algae Nets

San Francisco-Ian Turner wants to get rid of wire and replace it with computer cable.

Turner, CEO of England’s Juice Technology Limited, has come up with a system for replacing the wiring for lights in buildings with twisted pair cables. LED lights are hooked onto the cable — without splicing into the cable — and soon after, they emit light. Energy from the still-covered cable is transferred to the light through magnets contained in the LED light fixture through induction. We spoke this morning at the Cleantech Forum taking place in San Francisco.

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Posted on March 2, 2010 · in Global

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