March 2, 2008 (Daily Yomiuri) - The government and business groups are set to jointly promote the use of 21 revolutionary new technologies, such as an advanced form of solar-power generation and underground storage of carbon dioxide emissions, as part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, government sources said Saturday.
Adoption of the plan, [...]
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Japanese govt to push high-tech ways to reduce CO2
Posted in Carbon Offset, Carbon capture, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Japan, Legislation, Solar on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Thirst for electricity threatens Australian targets
Posted in Australia, Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Legislation, Renewable Energy on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
February 26, 2008 (Canberra Times) - Australia’s rapidly escalating electricity consumption remains the biggest risk to meeting its Kyoto treaty targets, a new Federal Government report warns. A Department of Climate Change analysis of national greenhouse emission trends estimates Australia’s emissions from electricity use will increase 59 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020.
Despite use [...]
Carbon Credits for Commercial Forests in New Zealand
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Climate Change, Conservation, Legislation, New Zealand on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
February 14, 2008 (New Zealand Herald) - Ministers and officials are grappling with some thorny issues over how to parcel out more than $1 billion worth of free carbon credits to the owners of commercial forests planted before 1990. They ought to have better things to do with their time.
Under the rules of the Kyoto [...]
StatoilHydro and ONGC cooperate (India)
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Carbon capture, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, India on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
February 9, 2008 (The Norway Post) -
StatoilHydro and the Indian oil company ONGC have agreed to jointly explore the potential of developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and CDM (clean development mechanism) projects in India.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by StatoilHydro’s Mrs Alexandra Bech Gjørv, Senior Vice President New Energy, and Mr Michel [...]
Letter from Shell CEO
Posted in Biodiesel, Carbon Offset, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Diesel, EU, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, GHG, Green chemicals, Hybrid, Hydro, LNG, Legislation, Ocean/Tidal, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Solar, Traditional Energy, U.K., U.S. on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From: Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive
To: All Shell employees
Date: 22 January 2008 Subject: Shell Energy Scenarios
Dear Colleagues
In this letter, I’d like to share reflections about how we see the energy future, and our preferred route to meeting the world’s energy needs. Industry, governments and energy users - that is, all of [...]
Origin partners with wind generation developers
Posted in Australia, Carbon Offset, Cleantech venture capital, Wind on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
January 22, 2008 (News.com.au) - Origin Energy has partnered with wind generation developers Epuron to develop 590 MegaWatt wind farm projects in New South Wales.
The fist project will be the construction of the 30 MW Cullerin Range wind farm in NSW, about 30 kilometres west if Gouldburn.Origin expects to start commissioning of the wind farm [...]
Emission Cuts Are `Feel Good,’ Won’t Save World, Lomborg Says
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Solar, Wind on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
December 24, 2007 (Bloomberg) - The world’s lawmakers should abandon attempts to set “optimistic” targets for greenhouse-gas emissions, said Bjorn Lomborg, the author of the best-selling book “The Skeptical Environmentalist. ”The U.S. and developing nations on Dec. 15 agreed at United Nations-sponsored talks to negotiate a new global-warming treaty by 2009, after the U.S. accepted [...]
Hong Kong Exchange Looks to Trade Smog Rights
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, China, Emissions Reduction, Voluntary Carbon Market on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
December 11, 2007 (NY Times) - As this city struggles under a daily cloud of noxious fumes from local traffic and nearby factories in mainland China, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is considering using its financial muscle as part of a solution.The exchange’s board is scheduled Wednesday to consider setting up system for trading in pollution emissions [...]
A Leading Asian Utility to Cut Carbon Emissions
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
December 6, 2007 (New York Times) - CLP, one of Asia’s largest power utilities, plans to commit itself on Friday to sharply reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide.
The company plans to cut the amount of carbon dioxide it emits with each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by 4.8 percent over the next three years, [...]
Japan goes on an air spending spree
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Emissions Reduction, Japan on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
November 30, 2007 (Asia Times) - Increasingly feeling the heat over the Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, [...]
