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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...
Tags: BNET Briefing, BP Plc, Cap-and-Trade Scheme, Carbon, Carbon Credit, Carbon Credits, Carbon Offsets, Emission, Emissions, Government, Jessica Stillman, Management, Offset, Strategy
Articles 2008-02-05

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China emissions could peak around 2030
In the "2050 China Energy and CO2 Emissions Report," a panel from state-run think tanks, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Development Research Center, advises China to invest significantly in low-carbon technology research and development. With the right policies, the report predicts, China's emissions growth could ease...
Tags: China, emission
News items 2009-08-18
Picarro's Gas Analyzer to Help Monitor GHG Emissions
If diplomats headed to Copenhagen this December are able to negotiate a new global climate treaty, how will the world know these countries are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as much as they claim? Michael Woelk, the chief executive of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Picarro , believes he...
Tags: Sensor, technology, Emission
News items 2009-11-20
How to Cut Carbon Emissions and Costs
The demand for data center capacity worldwide has led to a sharp rise in IT costs and a steady increase in carbon emissions. A new efficiency metric provides companies with a clear yardstick for measuring progress. The modern corporation runs on data. Data centers house...
Tags: Data Center, Server, Carbon Emission, Data Center Efficiency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Functions, Information Technology, Management, McKinsey
Articles 2009-01-12
BP Chemicals' emissions drop
The BP Chemicals Group reported a decrease of 13,000 tonnes in measured total emissions of 136 pollutants to air, water and land in its second annual emissions report, published at the end of 1992. The Group reported that emissions fell from an adjusteThe BP Chemicals Group reported...
Tags: BP Plc, chemicals
Research articles 1993-01-01
EPA: Fossil Fuel Combustion Accounts for 80% of Emissions
Fossil fuel combustion accounts for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and 86% of emissions are produced by energy-related activities, U.S. EPA said in a recently released report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2004.Fossil fuel combustion accounts for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and 86% of emissions are...
Tags: fossil fuel, Sink, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-03-15
BP Chemicals releases world-wide emissions data
The BP Chemicals Group has published its first estimates of its emissions world-wide. Emissions data were gathered from the Group's 10 main sites, which account for 75% of production, to give an estimated 170,000 tonnes of total emissions from those siThe BP Chemicals Group has published its...
Tags: BP Plc, chemicals
Research articles 1992-06-01
Week in Oil & Gas: Boxer-Kerry Bill, EPA Emissions Rules, and China's Oil Grab Efforts
Greenhouse gas emissions dominated headlines throughout the week with the introduction of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and another government agency jumping into propose its own rules for industrial facilities. The Senate -- via co-sponsors Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass. -- introduced its...
Tags: BP Plc, Iraq, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Oil & Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Gas, Watson, Telecom & Utilities, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-10-04
Cow Burps OK: House, Senate Block EPA From Regulating Livestock Emissions
Farmers can breath a little easier now -- cows can burp and fart without fear of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating their methane emissions. You may remember the "cow tax" rumors that floated around late last year and caused an uproar among farmers and ranchers worried the...
Tags: Methane, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-10-28
India's emissions to triple by 2031
Based on five separate studies by non-governmental groups, including the global consultancy McKinsey & Co., the report forecasts India's carbon dioxide emissions will rise to between 4 billion and 7.3 billion tons by 2031. India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, in releasing the report stressed, "Per capita emissions is the only...
Tags: India
News items 2009-09-03
EPA reports increase in U.S. global-warming gas emissions.
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.5% from 1997 to 1998, according to a report released for public comment last month by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Emissions rose from 1,827 to 1,834 million metric tons of total emissions, including U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.5%...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2000-04-01
Top European Emissions Trader Selects SunGard for EU ETS; Shell Energy Trading Limited Licenses SunGard's ZaiNet Emissions Trading Software To Help Manage Global CO2 Emissions Portfolio
HOUSTON -- SunGard (NYSE: SDS) announced today that Shell Energy Trading Limited Shell Trading has licensed SunGard's ZaiNet Emissions Trading software to manage its global carbon dioxide emissions portfolio. Shell Trading's Environmental Products group trades 15 environmental products globally and will use the ZaiNet European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS)...
Tags: carbon dioxide, Shell, software, SunGard Data Systems Inc., trader
Research articles 2005-07-05
Worldwide Emissions Up 13%, IEA Says
Worldwide Emissions Up 13%, IEA Says A report released last week by the International Energy Agency IEA shows that carbon dioxide emissions are on the rise and the energy-hungry US is mostly to blame for the jump in emissions. The IEA report concludes that carbon...
Tags: emission, International Energy Agency
Research articles 2002-10-21
UK backs European Commission to include aviation emissions in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 September 2005-UK Government: UK backs European Commission to include aviation emissions in the EU Emissions Trading SchemeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27092005 Joint announcement by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and Department for Transport ...
Tags: aviation, emission, European Commission, U.K.
Research articles 2005-09-27
The EPA released the "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006," a report that details the national greenhouse gas inventory
The EPA released the "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006," a report that details the national greenhouse gas inventory. The report found that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1%. The inventory report tracks annual greenhouse gas emissions at the national level and presents emissions data from...
Tags: emission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2008-06-01
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels rise
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels rose 29 per cent between 2000 and 2008, an international team of researchers says. The scientists with the Global Carbon Project also found that despite the global economic crisis, carbon emissions increased by two per cent during 2008, to an all-time high of 1.3...
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Emission, Carbon Sink
News items 2009-11-19
Emissions Trading: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Emissions trading or, more generally tradable permit systems, have already been used to deal with various environmental or resource problems since the 1970s, notably air pollution, fisheries, water management, waste management and land-use. Emissions trading have been considered as a possible tool for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions since the early...
Tags: Stock, Emission, IEA
White papers 2004-06-01
Fuel-Cycle Emissions for Conventional and Alternative-Fuel Vehicles: An Assessment of Air Toxics
This report provides information on the efforts to use the Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation GREET fuel-cycle model to estimate air toxics emissions. GREET, developed at Argonne National Laboratory, addresses greenhouse gas emissions and such regulated emissions as volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide.
Tags: Emission, Argonne National Laboratory, Transportation
White papers 2000-08-01
General Motors Corp. Largest automaker markets its zero emissions strategy.(Special Report)(Brief article)
Byline: Jim Johnson Zero is an important word at General Motors Corp. The nation's largest automaker concerns itself with emissions from vehicles used by consumers as well as emissions from the plants used to create those...
Tags: General Motors Corp., strategy
Research articles 2006-08-14
Court tells EPA to rewrite emissions rule.(News)(Environmental Protection Agency)
Byline: Steve Toloken A federal court has tossed out part of the Environmental Protection Agency's emissions standards for PVC manufacturing plants, ruling that the agency failed to set limits for emissions of several hazardous air pollutants. Byline: Steve Toloken...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2004-06-28
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