Assets in carbon funds stand at nearly $13 billion, but the growth in money tied up in emission reduction projects is lagging the overall increase in carbon finance, a new survey found.
Germany will launch a €350 million programme to support companies that source their heat supply from renewable energy on 1 September, according to the environment ministry.
A carbon tax is the best way of putting a price on carbon, a necessary step to building a greener economy and fighting climate change, Stephane Dion, leader of the Liberals, Canada's main opposition party, told Point Carbon.
A coalition of environmental groups in Canada on Friday urged the federal government to ensure that climate policy is strict enough to boost the price of carbon and encourage development in renewable technology.
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A long-term aspirational goal for global greenhouse gas emissions would make a post-2012 international treaty on climate change more efficient, the 16 governments of the East Asia Summit said today.
Canadian province British Columbia will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 33 per cent below current levels by 2020, according to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act introduced by Premier Gordon Campbell Tuesday.
The Canadian province of Manitoba will cut greenhouse gas emissions by shutting down its only coal-fired generating facility, premier Gary Doer said in his throne speech today.
The Norwegian government today announced it will spend NOK4.1 billion (€535 million) over the next five years on purchasing Kyoto carbon credits to offset its emissions of greenhouse gases.
Six western US states and two Canadian provinces are meeting today to set joint targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions in the region.
Canada's minority Conservative government will continue to implement its controversial federal climate plan, as there is no chance it will be ousted after its budget passed Tuesday night.
Canada will ban the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012 as part of a plan to cut down on emissions of greenhouse gases, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said on Wednesday.
British Columbia's government announced Tuesday it will be the first Canadian province to join an emerging international system to fight global warming by creating a carbon trading market that lets polluters buy "carbon credits" from cleaner and greener companies.
Canada's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol will be excluded from the minority Conservative government's forthcoming climate change legislation targeting big emitters, Environment Minister John Baird said on Monday.
Canada's Conservative government has promised to soon unveil “world-leading regulations” to curb polluting greenhouse gases, following a bleak climate outlook report released in Brussels on Friday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Governors and state officials in five western US states setting up a joint initiative to reduce greenhouse gases praised Monday's Supreme Court ruling stating that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars.
Money flowing into the carbon fund sector grew by $4.7 billion (€3.5 billion) over the past six months to total $11.8 billion, thanks in part to 12 new funds entering the carbon market, UK-based analysts New Carbon Finance said on Wednesday.
The European commission today announced it would allow Poland to hand out 208.5 million allowances annually to installations included in the second phase of the European emissions trading scheme.
The European Investment Bank and World Bank have launched a €50 million fund to buy carbon credits on behalf of three EU member states, a regional government and a large utility.
Canada has belatedly submitted its initial report under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations, paving the way for the country to participate in the Protocol's flexible mechanisms.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell on Thursday agreed to work together in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Alberta, the home of Canada's vast oil sands production, has become the country's first province to legislate greenhouse gas emission reductions from large industry, the provincial government said on Thursday.
The price of carbon allowances will average €21.00 during the second phase of the European emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to analysis by Point Carbon published on Friday.
The environment ministers of the EU member states today agreed that the EU should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and that 30 per cent should be the reduction target sought in international negotiations.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will respect a new bill calling on the government to commit to its Kyoto obligation if the act actually becomes a law, Canadian media reported Thursday.
Canada's parliament passed a Liberal bill Wednesday night to ensure the country meets its Kyoto obligations by reducing greenhouse gas emissions six per cent below the 1990 level by 2012.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday announced his government would budget C$1.5 billion (nearly €1 billion) in new funding for provinces to battle climate change, with $350 million going to the French-speaking province of Quebec.
Representative Rick Boucher, chairman of the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee of the US House's Energy and Commerce Committee, will introduce legislation to curb US greenhouse gases through a cap-and-trade programme, he told Point Carbon.
The threat of global warming is enough to spur all governments in Canada and the UnitedStates to have carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations in place by the end of the decade, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets.
To reduce windstorms in Beijing, Chinese scientists are planting a "green belt" around the capital. Reforestation will be aided by conserving rainwater to increase soil fertility.
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