Carbon Market News
Saturday, 15 Mar, 2010
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EU urges investment: SMEs encouraged to exploit carbon economy: Japan cap and trade bill passed: IMO starts carbon tax: van Schalkwyk tipped for top job
People’s Daily Online Mar 12 2010
The European Parliament on Thursday urged the European Commission to "put the money where the mouth is" while promising to develop a low-carbon economy in a new 10-year blueprint.
Greenwise Mar 12 2010
UK Trade & Investment has told 170 small to medium-sized enterprises how they could exploit the fastest-growing low carbon markets in the world as it produced figures showing that the low carbon sector is already worth some GBP 112bn and employs
Business Week Mar 12 2010
The value of carbon emission- reduction projects in Africa is expected to almost triple from 2008, Standard Bank Group Ltd. said.
Business Week Mar 12 2010
Japan’s Cabinet has endorsed a climate-protection draft law that would cap industrial emissions for the first time and thrust the second-biggest economy into the USD 125bn market for trading carbon credits.
The Gazette Mar 10 2010
Loopholes in United Nations climate treaties could actually lead to an increase in global climate-warming emissions and the chance to rein in temperatures may be slipping away, a draft European Union report showed.
Reuters Mar 10 2010
Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name "cap and trade" and rebrand their product as "pollution reduction targets.
Emirates Business Mar 8 2010
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is working on introducing carbon regulation for the shipping industry and efforts are on to introduce carbon tax to encourage energy-efficient ships, a senior industry official has said.
Mail & Guardian Mar 8 2010
South Africa’s former environment minister and current tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has emerged as a frontrunner for the post of the United Nations’ new climate chief.
Associated Press Mar 5 2010
The European Commission said Thursday it will soon propose an EU-wide minimum tax on the use of automobile fuel, coal and natural gas — an idea it had until now resisted.
Valere Tjolle
Valere Tjolle is editor of the 2010 Sustainable Tourism Report Suite details at:www.travelmole.com/stories/1141006.php
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