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• Nation’s First Energy Efficiency Standards for TVs Would Help Consumers, Environment, Group Testifies

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=10478 On October 13, 2009 Environmental Defense urged the California Energy Commission (CEC) to adopt the nations first energy efficiency standards for big screen TVs that will save consumers money, cut energy use and reduce global warming pollution.... ... The standards ...
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• Which renewable energy policy is a venture capitalists best friend? Empirical evidence from a survey of international cleantech investors

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.071 Abstract: Governments around the world have adopted ambitious targets to increase the share of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They pursue a variety of policy approaches to achieve these targets. It has been a popular theme for contributions in ...
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• Carbon Friendly increases unit financing

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Earthtimes.org | VANCOUVER, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. (TSX Venture Exchange: CFQ) (”CFS” or the “Company”) (http://www.carbonfriendly.com) is pleased to announce that it is increasing its previously announced (by way of news release dated September 23, ...
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• U.S. climate bill spurs low-carbon jobs debate

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  * Google: Climate bill creates millions of new energy jobs * Democrats from coal states concerned about employment * Sen Boxer says bill gives oil co’s enough carbon permits WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Leaders at companies that develop low-carbon energy told a Senate panel that climate legislation would create ...
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• Korea considers 4% CO2 reduction

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Koreaherald.co.kr | Korea will consider either a freeze or a 4 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 from 2005 levels, officials said yesterday. The Presidential Committee on Green Growth yesterday proposed the two options for consideration ahead of a U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen ...
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• Czechs sell carbon credits for CZK 17 billion

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Praguemonitor.com | Prague, Nov 4 (CTK) – The Czech Republic has sold carbon credits worth 16.8 billion crowns so far, the Aktualne news server writes Wednesday, citing Environment Minister spokesman Jakub Kaspar. The money received for the emissions goes to a state programme supporting measures ...
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• Report: U.S. Risks Falling Behind Other Nations in Financing Clean Technologies: New Green America/Clean Edge Report Analyzes Five Most Promising Financing Models To Put U.S. Back In the Lead Globally on Clean Tech

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/reports-financemodels.php Although significant clean-tech investments are being made in America, the United States risks losing ground to other nations -- such as China and South Korea -- that are pursuing aggressive clean-tech growth initiatives, according to a report being released ...
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• Congress Contemplates Geoengineering Proposals

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 428
  A small group of highly-respected climate-change and Earth systems scientists testified before the U.S. House of Representatives today in a hearing titled the hearing titled “Geoengineering: Assessing the Implications of Large-Scale Climate Intervention,” which explored the current lack of geoengineering ...
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• Green Buildings Continue Impressive Growth, New Market Study Finds

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.GreenerBuildings.com/impact2009 Green building activity has sustained impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published on November 5, 2009 by ...
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• Group targets carbon neutrality on central Island

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From BCLocalnews.com | A sustainability group wants to localize carbon neutrality and it’s looking to the Regional District of Nanaimo for assistance. Laurie Gourlay, president of the Mid-Island Sustainability and Stewardship Initiative, approached the RDN last week about formally establishing a ...
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• Global carbon market shrinks in Q3, but activity in North America and in the international credit market sees continued growth

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://carbon.newenergyfinance.com/download.php?n=GCQ_2009_091.pdf&f=fileName&t=NCF_downloads According to the latest analysis by New Energy Finance, the value of the world carbon market fell by 21% from Q2 to Q3. This is largely due to a drop in activity in the European emissions market compared to Q2. ...
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• Carbon has no place in global trade rules

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From FT.com | Crunch time for an international agreement to tackle global warming is only weeks away. In December, the world will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a new agreement on cutting global emissions of greenhouse gases, with prospects for a meeting of minds still far from certain. Developed ...
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• China Pushes for CO2 Storage, Not Emissions Reductions

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  The head of the U.S. delegation at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona this week says China should cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, reports Reuters.Jonathan Pershing told Reuters that China should cut its GHG emissions by about 50 percent, which would allow for lower targets for poorer countries and give ...
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• Indonesia Debates Benefits, Risks of Carbon-Trading Plans

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Voanews.com | Palm oil plantations spanning tens of thousands of hectares have changed the landscape of Indonesia, a country that suffers from one of the world’s highest deforestation rates thanks to illegal logging, forest fires and land conversion. Deforestation’s contribution to global carbon ...
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• Korea Seeks 4% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2020

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Koreatimes.co.kr | The administration is seeking to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent by 2020 from 2005 by promoting the use of bio and nuclear energy, and energy-efficient technologies, officials said Wednesday. The plan is expected to draw a fierce backlash from ...
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• Senate Committee Passes Historic Climate Legislation

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 428
  The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, S. 1733, a historic action that will help strengthen the economy, increase America’s security and reduce carbon pollution. “This clears the way for full Senate action on clean energy and climate ...
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• Carbon to Cost $15 per Tonne Under Kerry-Boxer Bill: Point Carbon Unveils New US Carbon Pricing Model

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.pointcarbon.com/aboutus/pressroom/pressreleases/1.1249271 Analysts at Point Carbon have created a new model to forecast prices for carbon allowances under an emission trading system in the United States. A bill establishing a cap-and-trade programme in the US is currently being debated by Congress. The ...
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• Imported Climate: 3° and Rising

  
  The Grey Chronicles — Authority: 424
  In an article entitled The obligation of rich nations ( 2009 ), a critical reaction to the raised eyebrows of newspaper headlines on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saying that the rich nations should fund the rehabilitation of the Philippines, Atty. Rita Linda V. Jimeno declared that “Indeed our nation is a ...
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• Africa boycott UN climate talks, demands CO2 cuts

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  * Meetings cancelled at Barcelona talks * African nations demand cuts in emissions by rich BARCELONA, Spain, Nov 3 (Reuters) – African nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Continue Reading on Reuters
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• Low Carbon, Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Power Plant To Supply CO2 For Enhanced Oil Production In Kern County

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Nickles.com | GE Energy has signed a technology licensing agreement with Hydrogen Energy for a proposed 250-megawatt power plant that would use integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology, a product of ecomagination. The plant, to be located near Bakersfield, in Kern County, ...
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