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The Government has changed the emissions trading scheme rules, which will benefit owners of 1.5 million ha of exotic forest planted before 1990 – the cut-off date at which the Kyoto Protocol acknowledges the carbon-absorbing role of trees.
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.
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A United Nations agency cut its forecast on Wednesday for pre-2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets by 3 percent estimating that only 981 million tonnes will come to market by the end of 2012.
LONDON (Reuters) – A United Nations agency cut its forecast on Wednesday for pre-2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets by 3 percent to its lowest level yet, estimating that only 981 million tonnes will come to market by the end of 2012.
LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ climate secretariat on Thursday issued 228,400 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets to three Asian clean energy projects, ending a two-week issuance drought but failing to reassure concerned investors.
LONDON (Reuters) – A Chinese government fund has told a U.N. panel it supports project developers which earn carbon offsets under a lucrative Kyoto Protocol scheme, and which rejects the idea that they are over-compensated.
LONDON (Reuters) – The Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) may end from 2013 unless the world can agree and put into force a new round of carbon emissions targets before then, a U.N. paper has said.
LONDON (Reuters) – A Kyoto Protocol scheme may be encouraging projects to emit more greenhouse gases because of incentives to earn carbon offsets from subsequently destroying these, a U.N. report said.
In 1997, 137 states signed the Kyoto Protocol, setting limits to carbon emissions in a bid to slow down climate change. Part of that international agreement is a mechanism that has proven controversial, and some say, misleading and environmentally destructive
A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the marketplace.
A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to …
SOFIA, June 9 (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s natural gas supplier Overgas has sold its first credits for greenhouse cuts made under a Kyoto Protocol emissions trading scheme to the Netherlands, it said on Wednesday.
SOFIA, June 9 (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s natural gas supplier Overgas has sold its first credits for greenhouse cuts made under a Kyoto Protocol emissions trading scheme to the Netherlands, it said on Wednesday. Overgas, 50 percent owned by Russia’s Gazprom sold 292,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide offsets or Emissions Reduction Units (ERUs) to the Netherlands for about 700,000 euros ($939,200) in the …
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.
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) – Participants in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) used 81.15 million tonnes of Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets last year, a 1.7 percent fall over 2008, EU Commission data showed on Monday.
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) – Participants in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) used 81.15 million tonnes of Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets last year, a 1.7 percent fall over 2008, EU Commission data showed on Monday.
Bulgaria will be suspended from carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol as a result of poor transparency and untrustworthiness, the country’s environment minister said on 13 May.
Bulgaria can be allowed into carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol in the autumn, the economy and energy minister has announced.
LONDON (Reuters) – A United Nations agency on Wednesday cut its forecast for pre-2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets, estimating for the first time that less than 1 billion tonnes will come to market before the climate pact expires.