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Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Trade Exceeds 250,000 MT
More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its availability late last year, marking the first stages ...
Global Climate Talks Set Carbon Offsets in Motion, Market May Quadruple by 2015
The success of the emerging global carbon market rests on the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, according to a report from market researcher ...
Carbon Capture Projects May Need to be Fast-Tracked
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects face a high risk of failure due to their high costs and should be applied across many sectors to ensure ...
Google, Microsoft, IBM Could Profit by Pressuring U.S. Chamber, Greenpeace Says
IT stalwarts like Google, Microsoft and IBM would profit by stepping up the pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to modify its climate ...
UN Lowers Copenhagen Expectations
Citing the lack of a comprehensive climate bill in the U.S. Congress and a lack of consensus from industrialized nations, the United Nations indicates it doesn't ...
Research Analyzes 270 Global Climate and Energy Policies to Drive Investment
Investors can't justify moving capital into clean-tech technologies until governments mitigate the financial risks involved by enacting climate-change policies that are transparent, long-term and certain, according ...
WWF to Screen Forest Carbon Investments
WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) plans to launch investment screening guidelines for financial investors in the upcoming months to encourage support for responsible ...
Kyoto CDM Offset Spending Fell 12% in 2008 – More to Come
The 12 percent drop in purchases of carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in 2008 may be just the tip of the ...
GE Pushes for Multilateral Free Trade on Cleantech
General Electric Co. (GE) says a trade deal in environmental goods and services, separate from the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha round of talks to open ...
UN Launches Satellite Forest Health Tracker
As more and more companies begin buying and selling forest carbon offsets, the United Nations has launched an online forest health tracker. The tracker uses ...
Study Finds Servers Waste $25B a Year
One of the biggest causes of energy and information technology (IT) operational waste is millions of servers at the world's largest IT departments that don't do ...
Voluntary Carbon Market Found Lacking
Industry players in the voluntary carbon market are unhappy with the lack of meaningful emission cuts, yet voluntary emissions cuts continue to gain steam. For instance, ...
Tesco Adopts Carbon Accounting Software
Tesco, which has 4,000 supermarket locations in 14 nations, has adopted a new carbon accounting software to help it meet its goal ...
EU Proposes Emission Caps on Aviation, Shipping
The European Union will likely propose that aviation and shipping should cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 10 and 20 percent, respectively, below 2005 levels over ...
UN Publicly Releases Climate Change Draft Document
While it's been in the hands of diplomats for some time, now the public can view the draft United ...
G20 Leaders Debate Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Curb Global Warming
Group of 20 leaders are close to an agreement on phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels in an effort to curb global warming, though no fixed ...
P&G, HDR, ISC Highlight Sustainability at Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
The key theme at the Fifth Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, held this week in New York, is innovation, reports Businessweek.com. Attendees included executives ...
Google Earth Tool Tracks Climate Change
Multinational companies can track various climate change models through a new Google Earth tool. The tool, which is a series of layers and tours showing the effects ...
UN Climate Summit Long on Rhetoric, Short on Substance
World leaders threw about lofty notions for reducing carbon emissions - but little in the way of concrete proposals - at the Sept. 22 ...
Businesses Demand Action on Climate Change
From the Copenhagen Communiqué to individual efforts, businesses across all industries are starting to flex their collective muscle to urge government leaders to develop a global ...
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