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- UK Businesses Risk Falling Foul of Carbon Control Regulations
- The Carbon Reduction Commitment CRC is a new carbon emissions trading scheme that will affect large organisations in the UK. It is coming into force soon and businesses who flout the regulations risk a heavy fine. The CRCÂ forms part of the Climate Change Bill that was introduced...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
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- What Is Carbon Credit?
- C02 emissions trading can help lower the environmental cost of doing business – if you know how to navigate the booming $60 billion market. How It Works Emissions limits and trading rules vary country by country, so...
- Articles 2008-02-05
- Energy Paper Promises to Create 1.2 Million 'Green' Jobs
- The UK government’s energy white paper “The low carbon transition plan†, purports to provide a pathway to a low carbon economy. After the past 10 years of dithering, mixed messages and unfulfilled promises, can we expect more this time around? The white paper...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Stantec Teams With EcoSecurities to Manage Carbon Reduction Initiatives
- Today Stantec (TSX: STN) (NYSE: SXC) announced it has entered into a relationship with EcoSecurities to provide clients with an integrated and comprehensive array of greenhouse gas management services, including verifying, registering, and selling carbon credits. EcoSecurities is a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- The ABC of Carbon | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 304; 16 minutes 04) This month author Ken Hickson released his book “The ABC of Carbonâ€, which looks at climate change and the opportunities businesses have to help correct it whilst driving efficiencies. The book has taken two years to research and write. The author is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, It's Not Going Up
- George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: we're losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to...
- News items 2009-11-08
- Canada Starts Doling Out Carbon Capture Dollars
- It seems like it was just yesterday that fellow BNET Energy blogger Chris Morrison wrote about the escalation of political rhetoric calling for carbon capture and storage projects. In fact, it was two days ago. The International Energy Agency has called for a rapid deployment of the technology...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Alberta government's carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative will accelerate emissions reduction says TransAlta CEO
- Steve Snyder, TransAlta Corporation's (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC), President and CEO, today applauded the Alberta government's commitment to provide $2 billion in funding for the development of Carbon Capture and Storage CCS technology, saying CCS is vital if Canada is to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions by 20...
- Research articles 2008-07-08
- The Collapse of the CCX Carbon Emissions Contract
- This may be a surprise for some, but "cap and trade" has been in place in the US for years. The trading is done via a firm called the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a creation of Richard Sandor the inventor of the CBOT bond futures. The contracts traded represent 100...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Canadian agriculture and the development of a carbon trading and offset system
- Canada committed to decrease its greenhouse gas GHG emissions by 6% below its 1990 levels during the first commitment period, 200812, when it ratified the Kyoto Protocol in December 2002. This is estimated to be a reduction of 240 megatonnes Mt from the 2010 business-as-usual BAU emission level (Government of...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Park Management Pledges Emissions Reduction to Save Wildlife, WildSpaces from Global Warming; Xanterra Parks & Resorts Joins Initiative
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Xanterra Parks & Resorts, the country's largest park and resort management company, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, and World Wildlife Fund has announced Xanterra's commitment to cut its heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions as part of WWF's Climate Savers initiative. "World Wildlife Fund is...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Reforming the Three Stooges
- China Announces Emissions Reduction Targets (But They're Not Really Reductions) : TreeHugger:Well, everyone has their cards on the table now. Following the US's announcement yesterday that it will bring an emissions reductions target "in the range" of 17 percent of 2005 levels to Copenhagen, China has announced its own commitment:...
- News items 2009-11-28
- Scaling Back En Route to Copenhagen
- About 53 days until COP15, and the word compromise is surfacing more and more in discussions around reaching an agreement in December. There is also worry that the U.S. will not have passed any sort of significant climate bill by then, thus hampering their ability to make any real CO2...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Rising Demand Puts Green Businesses in the Limelight
- Vodafone's pledge to halve its CO2 emissions by 2020 shows enlightened self-interest. Nice as it is to be green, it also "makes business sense", as Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said. InterfaceFLOR, a flooring manufacturer, made a similar, albeit more ambitious, commitment. Its "Mission...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Energy report: 'Unfinished Business'
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 UPI -- Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of major U.S. companies, in a report released Wednesday urged Congress and the Obama administration to support renewable and traditional sources of energy as the country transitions to a low-carbon economy. "Unfinished Business: The Missing Elements of...
- News items 2009-10-23
- If I Were Chancellor...
- For all its vaunted support of the SME sector, can the government help them now, when access to funding and supply chain pressures are constricting their ability to grow? According to the Chartered Management Institute's latest Economic Outlook Survey, 85 per cent of managers think the government...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Airline industry calls for a rapid push on biofuels
- ICAO and its contracting States have been called upon to encourage the development and use of sustainable biofuels, in a working paper issued following the recent International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO High Level Meeting on International Aviation and Climate Change ( HLM-ENV ). The working paper, issued jointly...
- News items 2009-10-12
- DuPont Two-Time VCR Leadership Winner.
- DuPont Canada Inc. has been selected as a winner of the 2001 Voluntary Challenge & Registry Inc (VCR Inc.) Leadership Award. The company won this award for the first time in 1999, based on its progress on nitrous oxide abatement and energy conservation. The...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- NOVA Chemicals Given Award for Decreasing Greenhouse Gases
- Business Editors CALGARY, Alberta--BUSINESS WIRE--March 1, 2001 NOVA Chemicals was awarded a Leadership Award by Canada's Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry (VCR Inc.) for displaying "extraordinary commitment, action, best practices and leadership toward the voluntary reduction of greenhouse gas emissions". Greenhouse gases GHG are those generated...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Daimler sells part of Tesla stake
- Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments is paying an undisclosed sum to acquire 40% of Daimler’s stake in electric vehicle EV firm Tesla. Daimler, which invested in Tesla in May, will retain a 6% stake in the company. In March, state-owned investment...
- Articles 2009-07-13
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