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CDP Launches Water Disclosure Project

CDP Launches Water Disclosure Project

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched a global water disclosure project to help businesses and institutional investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with ...

November 20, 2009

Canada Delays GHG Emissions Regs, Russia Ups Emissions Cuts

Canada Delays GHG Emissions Regs, Russia Ups Emissions Cuts

Add Canada to a growing list of countries that want to wait until a global climate deal is struck and the United States decides how it ...

November 19, 2009

News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management

News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management

News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impact ...

November 19, 2009

Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

Miami would become an island city - and Miami Beach an underwater reef - if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea ...

November 19, 2009

U.S., China Partner on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency

U.S., China Partner on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency

President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao have agreed to a wide ranging package of programs and initiatives (seven in total) to strengthen the ...

November 18, 2009

UK to Ease Rules for On-Site Renewable Energy Installations

UK to Ease Rules for On-Site Renewable Energy Installations

Aimed at helping cut carbon emissions, the UK has proposed new planning rules that will allow home owners, offices, schools, stadiums and railway stations to install ...

November 18, 2009

Nike Tops Annual Climate Action Scores

Nike Tops Annual Climate Action Scores

Nike has topped Climate Counts' third annual corporate climate performance scorecard with 83 points (out of a possible 100) for the second year in a row. ...

November 18, 2009

Carbon Traders Adjust to New Copenhagen Expectations

Carbon Traders Adjust to New Copenhagen Expectations

With it now practically a given that Copenhagen will yield no global climate deal, carbon traders say that a final agreement in 2010 is ...

November 17, 2009

Consensus: No Climate Deal at Copenhagen

Consensus: No Climate Deal at Copenhagen

The decision by some world leaders to not seek a binding climate change agreement in Copenhagen has dealt a significant setback to efforts leading up to ...

November 16, 2009

Japan, U.S. Forge Consensus on Climate, Cleantech

Japan, U.S. Forge Consensus on Climate, Cleantech

The United States and Japan will work with each other to develop renewable energy technologies and other cleantech, as well as set ...

November 13, 2009

Senate Climate Bill May be Reshaped by Coal States

Senate Climate Bill May be Reshaped by Coal States

Senators from states heavily reliant on coal-fired electricity want the climate bill to apportion more free carbon permits to their states, reports Reuters. Without such changes, ...

November 13, 2009

U.S. Must Pursue Low Carbon Development

U.S. Must Pursue Low Carbon Development

Todd Stern, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change, testifies at the House ...

November 13, 2009

As Congress Drags Feet on CO2 Regulations, EPA Moves Forward

As Congress Drags Feet on CO2 Regulations, EPA Moves Forward

The Environmental Protection Agency, as it promised it would do, is moving ahead to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in the absence of ...

November 11, 2009

Nations Argue Over CO2 Emissions Cuts, Audits

Nations Argue Over CO2 Emissions Cuts, Audits

The measurement, reporting and auditing of greenhouse gas emissions by each country is a key focus of U.N. climate negotiations leading up to climate talks in ...

November 10, 2009

Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports ...

November 9, 2009

Climate Change Will Harm U.S. Economy, Economists Say

Climate Change Will Harm U.S. Economy, Economists Say

Almost all 144 top economists surveyed forĀ a New York University School of Law report agree that climate change threatens the United States economy and that ...

November 9, 2009

Emissions Intensity Falling Globally

Emissions Intensity Falling Globally

Emissions intensity, the amount of carbon generated from fossil fuel use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), fell globally in all but two years between ...

November 6, 2009

Carbon Trading Could Trigger a ‘Sub-prime Style’ Economic Crash

Carbon Trading Could Trigger a ‘Sub-prime Style’ Economic Crash

Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second 'sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world ...

November 6, 2009

Peabody, Exxon Accused of Undermining Climate Talks

Peabody, Exxon Accused of Undermining Climate Talks

Negotiations for a new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being blocked by a multi-national backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy ...

November 6, 2009

China Pushes for CO2 Storage, Not Emissions Reductions

China Pushes for CO2 Storage, Not Emissions Reductions

The head of the U.S. delegation at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona this week says China should cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, ...

November 6, 2009

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