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EU Tempers Hopes Of Binding Climate Deal For 2010
Posted on 08/03/2010
The European Union executive is tempering its hopes of securing a legally binding climate deal in talks this year culminating in Cancun, Mexico, focusing instead on a 2011 summit in South Africa, a source said. "The realistic approach is to aim for deliverables in the Bonn and...
Asia sustainable investments could jump from $20bn to $4 trillion by 2015
Posted on 25/02/2010
Sustainable investments in Asia (ex Japan) could make a huge jump from approximately $20bn today to $4 trillion by 2015 according to research by Vontobel, the Swiss fund manager. Vontobel says it believes sustainability themes are being ‘seriously undervalued’ in a region undergo...
Slow Recovery Frustrates Voluntary Carbon Investors
Posted on 25/02/2010
The slow recovery of the voluntary carbon market is frustrating investors as trading remains sporadic and buyers focus on either high-quality credits or large volumes of lower-quality ones. "There are deals out there but you have the entire market going after them," Grattan Ma...
EU's Water Framework Directive
Posted on 17/02/2010
The implementation of the EU’s Water Framework Directive, despite its positive goal to improve the environmental status of water bodies, is limiting the hydro sector’s future growth, since the interpretation of the directive at national level is having direct consequences on the...
Arctic Climate Changing Faster Than Expected
Posted on 08/02/2010
Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north. The research project involved more than 37...
proposed new feed-in tariff from April 2010 for microgeneration from systems like small wind turbine
Posted on 07/02/2010
On Monday the Government announced the final details of the proposed new feed-in tariff from April 2010 for microgeneration from systems like small wind turbines and solar photovoltaics. The proposed new tariff will pay for all energy generated by your system, irrespective of if...
EU Agrees To Make Lowest Climate Offer To U.N
Posted on 28/01/2010
The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels con...
UK Offshore Wind Costs Can Fall 40 Percent: Carbon Trust
Posted on 07/01/2010
New technology and careful choice of sites could slash projected costs for Britain's next round of offshore wind farm project by as much as 40 percent, the Carbon Trust, which advises the government, said on Tuesday. Capital investment required for Round 3 offshore wind projec...
What Was Agreed And Left Unfinished In Copenhagen
Posted on 22/12/2009
A conference of 193 countries agreed on Saturday to "take note" of a new Copenhagen Accord to fight global climate change, after two weeks of U.N. talks in the Danish capital. The accord was not legally binding, and did not commit countries ever to agree a binding successor to...
Main Points Of The Copenhagen Accord
Posted on 21/12/2009
COPENHAGEN - U.S. President Barack Obama reached a climate agreement on Friday with India, South Africa, China and Brazil. The deal outlined fell far short of the ambitions for the Copenhagen summit. Here are key points from the agreement, which is titled "Copenhagen Accord."...
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