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- Auto Industry and Green Groups Agree on Landmark Climate Policy
- In a swift bit of Congressional maneuvering September 24, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment from longtime global warming skeptic Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would have effectively killed President Obama’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. What’s interesting is that the auto industry itself opposed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
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- The costs (and benefits) of climate change policy -- without all the hoopla
- If you are tired of all of the nonsense about the recent climate nonsense (SuperFreakonomics, Climategate) and want to read something reasonable about climate change economics, try the last CBO Economic and Budget Issue Brief [PDF] title "The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions." If you aren't into 12 pages of...
- News items 2009-12-01
- EU agrees to pay half of climate aid fund
- A senior European Union official said the bloc has agreed to pay about $80 billion Cdn annually by 2020 into a global fund to aid developing countries in limiting their emissions growth and adapting to climate change. European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said Europe has agreed to commit to...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Climate Conundrum Continues in Run-up to Copenhagen
- Originally a the Breakthrough InstituteThe United States may be stuck in the middle of a climate conundrum. A proposal to establish border tariffs to account for the carbon associated with the imported manufactured products, like steel, looks critical to securing the support of key swing Senators interested in protecting the...
- News items 2009-12-03
- IEA Shoutout: Nukes, Renewables, Energy Efficiency Key to Climate Change Battle
- The world -- in the eyes of the International Energy Agency -- cannot resume its trip down the same fossil fuel path. Instead, the Paris-based agency, which released Tuesday its 2009 World Energy Outlook, called for a profound change within the energy sector and a global agreement to limit...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Tipping Point? Republican (Murkowski) Hints at Support for Climate Change Bill
- It would be a stretch to call it an endorsement. It's more like a hint at support -- the tiniest of wavers in what has been a rigid stance by Republican senators on climate change legislation. Funny, this hint of support isn't for the actual climate change bill...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill's Small GOP Blessing and the Race For Energy Assets
- Earnings season is ramping up again with companies like Halliburton and General Electric already pulling back the curtain on their third quarter results. But before we dive into the numbers over here at BNET Energy -- a word or two about some developments last week shaping the fundamentals of the energy...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- India Ponders Changing its Climate Rhetoric
- There have only been a handful of blocks to a new international climate agreement. One is that the United States has been slow to pass climate legislation; another is that China and India, the two largest of the world's developing economies, argue that they should not have to limit their...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Laureate Effect: Will a Nobel Prize In Obama's Hand Help or Hurt the Climate Bill Cause?
- Is a president with a Nobel peace prize in hand, more effective than one without? More specifically, will President Obama's Nobel laureate status be a shot in the arm or a hindrance in the political battle to pass climate change legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions? In...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Barack Obama will make or break deal on climate change
- In a few weeks some 20,000 United Nations bureaucrats, representatives of non-governmental organisations NGOs, world leaders and accompanying experts from 192 nations will descend on Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They aim to devise a substitute for the...
- News items 2009-11-16
- First emission certificates for a project of the World Bank's "CDCF" climate protection program; Two years of "Community Development Carbon Fund" BASF draws a positive interim balance.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-20 October 2005-BASF: First emission certificates for a project of the World Bank's "CDCF" climate protection program; Two years of "Community Development Carbon Fund" BASF draws a positive interim balanceC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20102005 Two years after its inception, the...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- NRCan: Government Responds to Industry Concerns About Climate Change.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Dec 18, 2002 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal, Minister of Natural Resources Canada, responded today on behalf of the Government of Canada to real and legitimate concerns raised by industry during climate change consultations. The Government of Canada will...
- Research articles 2002-12-19
- CLIMATE CHANGE : WWF REPORT RAISES SPECTRE OF ETS FAILURE.
- The World Wildlife Fund WWF has some concerns that the most important mechanism to tackle climate change, ie the EU Emission Trading Scheme ETS, is set to be undermined because of plans allowing European companies to buy their way out of making reductions in their greenhouse ...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- EU/US/CLIMATE CHANGE : US PERCEIVES ETS AS A TAX MEASURE.
- Jim Connaughton, President George Bush's senior White House adviser on the environment, equates the inclusion of the aviation sector in the European Emission Trading Scheme ETS to a new "tax". Responding to a question from Europolitics - during a briefing on the US administration's...
- Research articles 2006-12-15
- Conference splits over deforestation emission cut
- ACCRA AFP — Trading carbon emission rights between developed and developing nations caused a split Sunday between delegates at protracted international climate change talks in Ghana. "The issue of reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries under the carbon market mechanism has been a stormy one among delegates and...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Improve Climate Change Laws: Business
- Business groups want the federal government to "iron out" flaws in its climate change legislation that failed in the Senate on Wednesday.The government has promised to reintroduce its carbon pollution reduction scheme CPRS bill for a third time when parliament resumes in February.It will include the amendments negotiated with...
- News items 2009-12-02
- Waste Generator Briefs.(Briefs)(Sierra Club; American Solar Energy Society; NASA climatologist James Hansen's report on energy management)(heavy-duty truck and engine manufacturers compliance with federal emission standards)(Super Bowl XLI's powered by re
- Energy Sierra Club offers climate roadmap One of the nation's pre-eminent climate scientists and two nongovernmental organizations unveiled a plan in Washington Jan. 31 to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions using only energy eff ...
- Research articles 2007-02-05
- Volvo: US Environmental Protection Agency Recognizes Mack for Reduction in Emission of Greenhouse Gases
- STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Regulatory News: At a meeting in Chicago last Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA recognized the Volvo Group's (STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB) US subsidiary Mack for the company's successful efforts in significantly reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. It was within the framework of the Climate Leaders...
- Research articles 2008-10-10
- Rockwell Collins Joins EPA Climate Leaders Program
- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- As a part of its continued commitment to sustainable practices, Rockwell Collins announced today its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Climate Leaders program. By participating in Climate Leaders, Rockwell Collins has pledged to reduce its corporate-wide greenhouse gas GHG emissions. The company is...
- Research articles 2006-10-12
- Serious Research Balances Costs and Environmental Benefits of Climate Policy
- Jeffrey Frankel submits: Ten years ago this summer, President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, of which I was a Member, responded to requests from Congress, which was then under Republican control, to explain in analytical terms what would be the economic effects of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change that had...
- External links 2008-08-24
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