More than 500 businesses joined Japan’s voluntary emissions trading scheme within two months of its launch, the Japanese government said before the Christmas holidays.
Tokyo pointed to power utilities’ voluntary pledge to cut their carbon by …
The U.S. Congress is unlikely to tackle climate change this year, despite repeatedly including climate change among the challenges that require urgent attention, the Wall Street Journal reported on one of its blogs.
House speaker Nanci …
A professional association of senior executives responsible for climate change and energy is to launch in the U.S. within the next year, Carbon Finance reported on January 7.
Provisionally called the Association of Corporate Climate Change …
Australia pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5 to 15 percent by 2020 versus 2000 levels, with the higher target to be met only if other countries agree on tough new targets to fight climate change by …
Under Australia’s new carbon pollution reduction scheme, companies will be allowed to buy and import an unlimited number of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), credits approved and issued by the United Nations against investments in developing countries …
Australia delayed the announcement of its 2020 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to after the Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, rather than prior to it as initially announced. The targets will now be made public …
ROME/ACCRA, 25 November 2008 (FAO) - Although Africa contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sources other than fossil fuels, it could be absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it puts back …
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is one of the most cost-effective opportunities for reducing emissions in the short-term, given that deforestation accounts for a large percentage of global emissions, said Australia’s Department of Climate …
Trading in Australian emissions units (AEUs) hit record levels on November 11, 2008. The 2011/12 contract went through AUD $23.00 while the 2012/13 vintage contract traded at $24.75. Both deals involved 10,000 AEU’s trading hands.
As …
Agricultural soils are among the planet’s largest reservoirs of carbon and hold significant potential for expanded carbon sequestration, experts say.
Difficulties in measuring and monitoring changes in soil carbon stocks to date have limited efforts to …