Carbon Finance & Offsets
Carbon finance investment instruments include renewable energy certificates and carbon credits. Articles also focus on carbon offsets used to reduce carbon footprints to meet government regulatory requirements. Carbon finance and offsets are both ways businesses address the financial implications of regulatory and other constraints placed on carbon emissions.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Bank of England Considers Carbon Bubble, Diesel Health Study Delayed
The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system's exposure to high carbon and ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate Law
California's On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CASE Report, Solyndra Probe, Keystone XL, Halliburton
The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) has found that levying 100-percent import duties on Chinese-made solar cells and modules may cost more than ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Manufacturing Tax Credit, Natural Gas Drilling, Ener1 Chapter 11, Tier 3 Emissions
The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: State of the Union, ETS Waivers, Tidal Permit, Cal ISO Plan
Manufacturers should get incentives to make energy-efficiency improvements to their plants, President Obama said in last night's State of the Union address. He called ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: World Future Energy Summit, China Carbon Trading, Obama's Jobs Council
At the Abu Dhabi opening of World Future Energy Summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out three core goals for 2030 in his launch of ...
Airlines Snap Up Bargain Carbon Permits, Rail at 'Looney Tax'
Air France-KLM and Lufthansa are preparing for inclusion in the EU's carbon trading scheme by buying allowances at low prices, while Ryanair has declared ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Northern Gateway, EU ETS, USDA, Vermont CEP
The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on ...
Carbon Trading to Double in North America This Year
Carbon trading in North America is poised to double this year with the inauguration of carbon markets in California and Quebec, and the total ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation, China Carbon Tax, Euronext Settlement, NY Energy Highway
The European Commission said that airlines could be banned from European airports if they do not participate in the European Union's emission trading system (ETS). ...
Lufthansa Customers to Pay for ETS
German airline Lufthansa will pass the extra cost that the European Union's emissions trading system will add to its operation onto customers' ticket prices, it has announced....
Judge Blocks Low-Carbon Fuel Rules
A federal judge has blocked California from enforcing regulations on carbon output from vehicle fuels, according to news reports.
U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence O’Neill ...
Ithaca Goes 100% Renewable
The City of Ithaca, N.Y., is to purchase 100 percent of its electricity consumption from renewable energy sources through a contract signed with Integrys Energy ...
Most Read Reporting and Finance Stories of 2011
Every day this week we'll be looking at a different aspect of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: NRC Approves Reactor, China Air Pollution Standards, NZ Bans UN Offsets
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a new nuclear reactor design, the Westinghouse AP1000, to be used at two American utilities projects in South ...
EU Aviation Directive Challenge Quashed
United/Continental Airlines and American Airlines have failed in an attempt to block a European Union law charging airlines flying to the continent for their carbon ...
California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Rattles Drivers Association
Demand-side implications related to changes approved by the California Air Resources Board to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard may drive up the price of diesel ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS, Keystone XL, China Seeks Environmental Investment, MATS
European Union lawmakers backed a proposal to allow the EU Commission to support low carbon investments by withholding 1.4 billion permits from the third phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The vote is the ...
CSR Standards Higher at Companies than Suppliers
Corporations set higher social responsibility standards for themselves than for their travel suppliers, according to a survey by business travel payment and data management firm ...
Green House Data Doubles Renewables Purchase
Cloud data hosting firm Green House Data doubled the amount of renewable energy credits it purchases.
The company has purchased 1.8M kWh in 2011 - twice ...
