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LONDON (Reuters) – A UN panel will review carbon offset issuances requests by three Chinese greenhouse gas destroying projects, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday, a sign the most lucrative projects under the Kyoto Protocol may face more scrutiny.
NM attorney testifies on need for greenhouse gas emissions plan; industry voices concerns Environment – Emissions trading – Greenhouse gas – Air Quality – Carbon Cycle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied 10 petitions challenging EPA’s 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs to invest more in low-carbon technologies to reach its goal of cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, a climate advisory body to the government said Monday.
The country’s week-old Emissions Trading Scheme may or may not cut our greenhouse gas production. But it has certainly got people unearthing carbon in all kinds of unexpected places.Researchers at a Science Media Centre briefing…
FARMERS are managing an enormous amount of carbon in their landscapes, but get very little credit for the fact under the current Kyoto greenhouse gas accounting rules.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
WINNIPEG (Reuters) – Canada will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing new regulations for coal-fired electricity generation, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday.
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Negotiators from 185 nations end two weeks of talks on a new climate treaty on Friday with a new blueprint for a pact that omits the most draconian options for greenhouse gas cuts by 2050.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, can target deeper cuts in carbon dioxide emissions than first thought, a trade ministry panel said on Tuesday.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australia is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol climate pact in part because of the global economic downturn, the government said on Thursday.
The opposition Socialist Party has demanded a public review of Bulgaria’s national inventory system for greenhouse gas emissions a day after the Cabinet announced the UN was to ban the country from trading with carbon quotas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled on Thursday that factories and power plants would be subject to greenhouse gas regulations, a major step that could push polluters and lawmakers to support the climate bill unveiled this week in the Senate.
May 13 (Bloomberg) — A new proposal to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and boost domestic energy production will give most of the carbon dioxide permits in a cap-and-trade program to industry for free, London-based Barclays Plc said today.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 percent between 1994 and 2007, official figures released on Tuesday showed, underlining the country’s growing importance in the fight against climate change.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Canada, and Mexico have proposed to amend a landmark global pact protecting the ozone layer to fight emissions of a refrigerant chemical thousands of times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the U.S. EPA said on Thursday
Kevin Rudd says the scheme will be delayed to 2013 because of parliamentary opposition The Australian government has shelved plans for an ambitious carbon trading scheme that was the cornerstone of a pledge to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to a quarter by 2020. Kevin Rudd, Australian prime minister, said the start of the scheme would be delayed to 2013 because of …
The Australian government has shelved plans for an ambitious carbon trading scheme that was the cornerstone of a pledge to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to a quarter by 2020.
Large Thai businesses have set a target to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as a group by at least 7.7 million tonnes a year by 2012 through the aggressive development of a low-carbon society, said Anusorn Sangnimnuan, leader of the Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development (TBCSD).
OSLO (Reuters) – Industrialized nations’ greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.2 percent in 2008, the steepest decline since the break-up of the Soviet Union as economies slowed, a Reuters compilation showed Wednesday.