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Carbon Traders Adjust to New Copenhagen Expectations

Posted by Environmental Leader on 17/11/2009

With it now practically a given that Copenhagen will yield no global climate deal, carbon traders say that a final agreement in 2010 is crucial to the vitality of the carbon offset sector.Companies that have invested in carbon offset projects in anticipation of a climate deal being struck may end ...

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Consensus: No Climate Deal at Copenhagen

Posted by Environmental Leader on 16/11/2009

The decision by some world leaders to not seek a binding climate change agreement in Copenhagen has dealt a significant setback to efforts leading up to December’s meeting, reports the Wall Street Journal.Instead, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has proposed to Asia-Pacific Econo ...

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U.S. Must Pursue Low Carbon Development

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

Todd Stern, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change, testifies at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?”Stern says that developing countries will be resistant to setting emissions targets because they fe ...

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Japan, U.S. Forge Consensus on Climate, Cleantech

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

The United States and Japan will work with each other to develop renewable energy technologies and other cleantech, as well as set an example for emissions cutting, after a mutual pledge from President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.The two leaders agreed Nov. 13 for the nations ...

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Senate Climate Bill May be Reshaped by Coal States

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

Senators from states heavily reliant on coal-fired electricity want the climate bill to apportion more free carbon permits to their states, reports Reuters.Without such changes, electricity consumers in certain states would have to pay unfairly higher rates, a group of 14 Democratic Senators stat ...

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