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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation.
GENEVA (Reuters) – About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
The premium of United Nations emissions offsets for this year to those for 2011 traded near a record as the regulator reviews the way it awards emission credits tied to hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.
European Union carbon-dioxide allowances, or EUAs, will rise to 16.50 euros ($20.95) a metric ton next month as delays in the issuance of United Nations offsets spurs demand from utilities, according to Sagacarbon.
The European Union regulator wants to offer carbon markets a quick response on restrictions that could be imposed on United Nations offset credits for use in the bloc’s cap-and-trade system, the EU’s climate chief said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the country, according to government estimates issued by the United Nations on Monday.
Carbon allowances in the European Union emissions-trading system jumped as United Nations-overseen regulators crimp supply of some offsets.
The European Union is waiting with a proposal that may restrict United Nations carbon credits in its cap-and-trade program as the lobby group for emission traders urges a quick decision.
The International Emissions Trading Association said confidence in the United Nations carbon market is at a “very low ebb” and urged the European Commission take steps to improve the situation.
The U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases could rein in what European and U.S. environmentalists call a huge scam
Ex-Australian leader Kevin Rudd said Tuesday he had joined a high-level United Nations panel on global sustainability, after a truncated rule marked by vain attempts to force through carbon trading laws.
Angel Cabrera is president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management and senior adviser to the United Nations Global Compact on academic affairs. He blogs at Global Leaders Can Be Made
Tom Switzer, research associate at the United States Studies Centre,
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) – 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.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Parts of northwest Pakistan inundated by the worst floods in 80 years face life-threatening food shortages, a United Nations aid agency said on Wednesday.
Results from the latest National Journal Congressional Connection Poll Emissions trading – Energy – Greenhouse gas – United States – Environment
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.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Developing economies can jumpstart low-carbon economic growth through “clean” investment promotion policies, despite slow progress in international climate negotiations, a United Nations agency said.
As the United States still spins its wheels on enacting climate legislation that would set a price on carbon–with John Kerry just saying the chances of a bill passing right now are very tough–an article in China Daily makes me wonder if China may beat the US to setting up a national carbon trading system.