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California cap and trade progressing
Tue, 26/07/11 – 8:03 | Posted by GreenCollar

“If a tree falls in the forest and it was supposed to have canceled out a company’s carbon emissions, who bears responsibility? It’s among many dilemmas California faces as it rolls out its landmark climate …

Advantages of linking Australia and New Zealand’s carbon schemes
Tue, 26/07/11 – 7:54 | Posted by GreenCollar

There are many advantages to linking New Zealand and Australia’s carbon schemes, writes Gary Taylor in the New Zealand Herald. Taylor is convenor of the 7th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference, coming up in Wellington, …

Forest emissions dropping slowly
Mon, 25/07/11 – 9:46 | Posted by Tim Strube

As U.N. talks keep failing to agree how to raise money to protect forests, private investors are testing a trade in credits to slow the deforestation that emits as much carbon as all the world’s …

Domestic credits a good way to avoid carbon fraud, consultant says
Fri, 22/07/11 – 10:55 | Posted by Tim Strube

Anthony Sibillin notes in the Australian Financial Review that “evidence is emerging of suspect and fraudulent projects, especially in developing countries, getting past both the United Nations and the European Union, which respectively run the world’s …

Carbon Farming Initiative: creating opportunities for farmers and landholders
Fri, 22/07/11 – 10:53 | Posted by Tim Strube

Cameron Kelly writes in the Australian Financial Review today that “what a lot of people don’t seem to realise is that the government’s proposed Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI), in conjunction with the $23/tonne price of carbon, …

World forests can remove significant carbon from atmosphere, according to a new CSIRO paper
Fri, 22/07/11 – 10:50 | Posted by GreenCollar

The world’s forests remove 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere – equivalent to one third of current annual fossil fuel emissions – according to new research published in the journal Science.
The article quotes …

A spike in projects under Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative predicted
Fri, 22/07/11 – 10:50 | Posted by Tim Strube

Samantha Bowers reports in the Australian Financial Review today that ”lawyers are predicting a spike in work from projects under the federal government’s Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI), fuelled by the government’s announcement last week that it …

Australia sets carbon price at AU$23 starting 2012
Mon, 11/07/11 – 8:49 | Posted by GreenCollar

Australia on Sunday unveiled details of its carbon policy, setting the price at AU$23 per carbon tonne emitted by the country’s top 500 polluters starting in mid-2012, and then raising the price 2.5 per cent …

A review of carbon tax and trading schemes around the world: The Guardian
Mon, 11/07/11 – 7:09 | Posted by GreenCollar

Our website news readers are probably often wondering how carbon tax and emissions trading schemes around the world compare. The UK’s Guardian newspaper published this useful review of country comparisons on Sunday:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/10/carbon-tax-emissions-trading-international

Macquarie Bank-World Bank form forestry fund
Fri, 8/07/11 – 11:01 | Posted by GreenCollar

Macquarie Group and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group, have announced a US$25 million forest management firm for forest carbon projects in developing countries.
 
Funded between various World Bank schemes, …