Carbon Trading
The latest
carbon investment news from
carbon trading, credits and offsetting to
renewable energy and sustainable investing – Investing in Green
The Government's decision to set a unilateral Carbon Price Floor could have a "devastating effect" on UK industry and will artificially raise electricity prices for consumers –while having no overall impact on emissions – MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee have warned.
A new carbon measurement centre is being established in the UK that will measure the performance and provide the scientific validation of low carbon technologies, thereby enabling developers to scale up their products.
European politicians are expected on Tuesday to vote through an amendment that could pave the way for direct intervention in the EU carbon market, which has sunk to record lows.
Companies around the world are being valued incorrectly by world stock markets, because the cost of their exposure to climate change is not being factored in, the United Nations' climate chief has warned.
It’s been three years’ since Jane Burston founded her innovative social enterprise Carbon Retirement. Since then, the 30 year-old green entrepreneur and her company have won almost a dozen awards and a reputation for providing a reliable method of carbon offsetting for businesses and individuals. But it’s not all been plain sailing. She talks to Louise Bateman about the challenges of being a start-up operating in the world of carbon offsetting.
Following the closure of the Government’s carbon offsetting Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) a small group of carbon offset providers have come together to launch an independent version of the standard.
A report published today is highly critical of the Government’s carbon floor price policy, saying it could add £1 billion to energy bills, will have no effect on reducing emissions and risks bringing into disrepute policies aimed at tacking climate change.
The CBI has today called for energy intensive businesses to be exempt from the carbon floor price, the Government’s policy to encourage investment in low carbon energy projects and to build a sustainable energy system for the future.
An innovative new employee benefit scheme that allows workers to reduce their carbon footprint by directly cutting industrial emissions rather than using traditional carbon offsetting schemes is being used for the first time by leading equities exchange group NYSE Euronext.
Like most carbon offset providers, we welcome the Government’s recent decision to axe its Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting at the end of June 2011.
The decision by Germany to shut down eight nuclear power plants following the explosions at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant could trigger a surge in carbon prices and millions of tonnes of carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere, analysts said today.
The UK will re-open its carbon trading registry tomorrow after getting the go-ahead from the European Commission that its system is secure enough against fraudsters that forced the world’s biggest emissions trading system to close down three weeks ago.
Fraudsters just can’t keep their hands off carbon trading. Every few months we hear of a new scam, form the Pope being sold dodgy forest offsets to the large scale tax fraud on carbon credits that led to VAT being removed from carbon credits for months while authorities sorted out the problem.
The suspension of the world’s largest emissions trading scheme remained in place today, as security measures continued to be implemented a week after a massive carbon fraud was uncovered in the system.
California has given the greenlight to a cap-and-trade scheme to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.