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Point Carbon Pushes Into North America

June 11, 2009October 19, 2009 by Gina Roos

Point Carbon, a leading energy and environmental market analysis firm, has launched its first power trading analytics tool for the North America market. This Web based platform is part of the company’s Power Market Trader series, specifically targeting the PJM ISO market. Point Carbon’s Power Market Trader series is currently ... Read more »

Wal-Mart Reduces Carbon Emissions/$1M Sold to 53 Tons

June 9, 2009October 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

[Editors note: A previous headline mischaracterized Wal-Mart’s global emissions based on erroneous information from the chart above from the Wal-Mart report.] While seeing an overall rise in carbon emissions to about 20 million tons in 2008, Wal-Mart Stores International is making progress in reducing its emissions per sales. In 2008, ... Read more »

China, Argentina Turn to Wind Power

June 4, 2009June 3, 2009 by Gina Roos

With growing demand around the globe to boost incentives for renewable energy projects, several countries including China and Argentina are looking to beef up their renewable portfolios with wind power. China, the world’s second-biggest energy consumer, will invest about $14.6 billion to more than double its wind power capacity by ... Read more »

Global Carbon Markets in Discord as Emissions Projections Rise

May 29, 2009October 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Just as the United States warns that global carbon dioxide emissions may rise 39 percent by 2030, there appears to be discord as to whether the U.S. and the European Union will be able to integrate carbon trading markets. With demand from non-developed countries like China and India using a ... Read more »

Secret Meetings, Industry Demands Preface Copenhagen Talks

May 26, 2009May 26, 2009 by Paul Nastu

As nations gear up for the next round of global climate talks — December in Copenhagen, Denmark — industry groups are making their demands known, quite publicly. At the same time, climate negotiators for key signatories are secretly hammering out agreements behind closed doors. Executives at major corporations in developed ... Read more »

China Export Hub Can Cut Emissions by 12-24% Annually

May 20, 2009October 19, 2009 by Gina Roos

Carbon dioxide in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) could be reduced by 74 million metric tons a year if factories across the region implement energy efficient and greenhouse gas emission (GHG) standards, through WWF’s new program for low carbon manufacturing (LCMP). A LCMP pilot study last July on three companies ... Read more »

To Conserve Water, China Raises Prices

May 11, 2009 by Gina Roos

The Chinese capital of Beijing will increase water prices this year as it aims to restrict total water consumption to 3.58 billion cubic meters according to China News Service, reports Reuters. Cheng Jing, the head of Beijing’s water resources bureau, says the postponement of a project — channeling water to ... Read more »

EU, Japan Move Ahead with Low-Carbon Economy Plans

May 5, 2009October 19, 2009 by Gina Roos

The European Union (EU) and Japan have joined forces in the battle against climate change and invited large countries, including the United States, China and Russia, to follow suit at a recent summit meeting in Prague, reports Associated Press. Both the U.S. and Europe have agreed to cut their carbon emissions ... Read more »

Canada, China, Germany Struggle to Reduce GHG Emissions

May 1, 2009October 18, 2009 by Gina Roos

Although many countries are setting carbon reduction targets, many of them are still struggling with ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — much of it from coal power plants — that contribute to global warming. Canada, for example, has one of the fastest growth rates of greenhouse gases in the ... Read more »

Senator Kerry: Climate, Energy Challenges Spell Opportunity

April 30, 2009May 5, 2009 by Paul Nastu

At a reception for representatives of 17 countries attending President Barack Obama’s “Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate” in Washington, D.C., this week, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., compared pending climate legislation to the successful acid rain cap-and-trade system established in the 1990s and said climate regulations could buoy and ... Read more »

Nissan, Seattle Plan for Electric Cars

April 29, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Seattle is working with Renault-Nissan to add recharging stations for electric vehicles, according to a press release. Renault-Nissan has been working with a number of cities and regions to add infrastructure for its electric vehicles, which are slated to be introduced in 2010. Nissan’s zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) will be rolled ... Read more »

Carbon Around the World: UK to Set Binding Targets, China, Canada May Do So

April 20, 2009October 18, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Just days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made official its “endangerment” ruling, calling greenhouse gases a pollutant that causes global warming, the momentum for change is picking up in places worlds apart. The United Kingdom is set to include in its next government budget a set of binding carbon ... Read more »

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