Africa may be the next major market for carbon-reduction ventures amid investigations into Chinese certification and as the European Union imposes new regulations, the International Emissions Trading Association said. Read more…
In May I was flown to Pittsburgh, birthplace of America’s coal industry, to attend the annual conference of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. A mistake all round, probably. Read more…
Energy companies supplied 1.6 billion litres of biofuels in the second year of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), accounting for 3.3% of the UK’s total road transport fuel, according to provisional figures released by the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) today (July 15). Read more…
A Danish climate scientist has published a paper criticising carbon sequestration – the idea of dealing with CO2 emissions by stuffing the greenhouse gas away into underground or deep-sea storage where it can’t affect the atmosphere. Read more…
Scientists have found the apparent role of carbon dioxide in the intensification of the Ice Ages and corresponding temperature changes in the tropical oceans. Read more…
The global voluntary carbon market tumbled last year both in value and in volume, according to a report released on Monday, as the recession and uncertainty about whether the United States would regulate greenhouse gases hurt demand. Read more…
Knight Capital Group, one of the largest US brokers, announced on Monday it is to start a carbon trading business and has appointed Daniel Braun to lead the efforts. Read more…
An FoE report says ‘cap and trade’ carbon markets have done little to reduce emissions but have been plagued by corruption and inefficiency Read more…
The EU is unlikely to meet its vision for an OECD-wide carbon market by 2015, Emmanuel Fages, senior analyst at Orbeo, said at the Carbon Show in London on September 29. Read more…
Carbon emissions usually refer to the man-made production of a series of gases that accumulate in the atmosphere and help to warm it. Strictly speaking, not all of these so-called greenhouse gases contain carbon so some – including New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin – have labelled the phrase misleading. Read more…