Carbon Market News This Week
Wednesday, 06 Mar, 2010
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Green World Cup 2010: US Marine Area Solutions: Offset Prices Slump: EU Carbon Tax: Kenyan firms get carbon funds: India gets greener: Quatar races for world summit
News 24 Mar 2 2010
South Africa is trying to "green" the World Cup, but local efforts are struggling to balance out the enormous carbon emissions caused by holding the tournament at the tip of the continent.
Fox Business Mar 2 2010
An international coalition thanked the 9 US Senators who sponsored the Clean Energy Partnerships Act for advancing marine conservation as part of the solution to climate change.
Business Week Mar 5 2010 7
Regulators overseeing the world’s second-biggest emissions market are concerned that low prices for emissions credits are sapping support for carbon trading, a UN board member said.
Associated Press Mar 5 2010
The European Commission said Thursday it will soon propose an EU-wide minimum tax on the use of automobile fuel, coal and natural gas — an idea it had until now resisted.
Business Daily Mar 5 2010
Two Kenyan firms have won grants from a new UN-backed facility that aims to boost the African carbon market through environmentally friendly projects.
Business Green Mar 3 2010
The Indian government is expected to back up its recent commitment to curb carbon emissions with a controversial move to levy a new tax on coal in order to pay for the roll out of renewable energy technologies.
PR Newswire Mar 3 2010
UOP, a Honeywell company, has been awarded a USD 1.5m cooperative agreement from the US Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production.
The Peninsula Mar 3 2010
Qatar is a bidder for hosting the 2012 United Nations climate summit. The Arab League Economic Affairs Committee has unanimously given the go-ahead to Qatar to bid for the 18th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Focus Information Agency Mar 2 2010
The European Commission has adopted a Green Paper which sets out options for an EU approach to the protection of forests and to information about forest resources and their condition.
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