08 September, 2010
BlueNext, a Paris-based carbon exchange owned by NYSE Euronext, is to link with US energy market infrastructure provider APX and build global markets for environmental commodities under a joint venture named NYSE Blue.
08 September, 2010
All industrial gas projects are not the same. That is the message German project developer N.serve is hoping to get across, as worries deepen over the impact of the HFC ‘gaming’ controversy.
01 September, 2010
An independent report says the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change needs a shake-up in order to improve its operations and avoid embarassing errors in its publications.
25 August, 2010
Issuance of carbon credits to controversial HFC23 projects has ground to a halt, causing carbon prices to climb and prompting analysts to cut back volume forecasts.
25 August, 2010
The private sector “urgently needs certainty” about the EU’s policy and attitude towards the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), says the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).
18 August, 2010
The World Bank has dismissed as “narrow and simplistic” analysis suggesting that HFC plant operators have been ‘gaming’ the Clean Development Mechanism.
18 August, 2010
Japan’s Marubeni has signed an agreement with Minneapolis-based agriculture and food giant Cargill to cooperate on greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.
11 August, 2010
A leading forestry expert says the regulations around reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation must be more certain if the market is to move forward.
11 August, 2010
Projects that aim to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) are likely to need private sector finance alongside public sector funding, according to a report commissioned by the UK government.
11 August, 2010
The Voluntary Carbon Standard Association will tomorrow open a consultation on a 2011 iteration of its offset standard.
11 August, 2010
Estonia has sold €30 million ($39 million) Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and plans to spend the proceeds on energy efficient refits of apartment buildings.
04 August, 2010
A developer of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects is looking to appeal a decision by the Executive Board last week to reject two of its projects, claiming they were judged against criteria different to that demanded from them.
04 August, 2010
New procedures for registering Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and requesting issuance of carbon credits were introduced last week, but developers already fear that they will extend waiting times.
04 August, 2010
The Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board has lifted the suspension of verification companies TÜV SÜD and Kemco, following its meeting in Bonn, Germany last week.
28 July, 2010
The lack of US federal climate policy should not be used as a reason for slowing progress in international climate talks, observers said this week.
28 July, 2010
Countries are gearing up to discuss how to breach a possible gap in climate legislation after the first Kyoto Protocol period ends in 2012 – with an extension to 2014 among the options on the table.
28 July, 2010
One of the founders of carbon project developer Camco International has taken a role hunting out promising climate change- and clean-tech-related companies.
28 July, 2010
Russia has granted approval to the first set of 15 Joint Implementation (JI) projects, according to a document leaked this week.
28 July, 2010
The trading unit of French utility giant EDF has acquired a developer of Clean Development Mechanism projects in China, for an undisclosed amount.
28 July, 2010
French food company Danone is to offset the carbon emissions associated with its products, such as Evian mineral water, by funding wetland preservation and restoration projects.
