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Climate protestors threaten to shut down London's carbon market
05 February 2009After attracting thousands of climate protestors to the Kingsnorth power station and Heathrow airport, the Camp for Climate Action has turned its sights on leading carbon trading platform, the European Climate Exchange (ECX).
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Further failures in US ethanol sector
04 February 2009US ethanol producers continue to fall victim to the economic crisis with two more companies filing for bankruptcy protection.
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From the national to the global
01 February 2009I must admit to some scepticism over recent months as to the likelihood of a 'Green New Deal' emerging as a response to the economic turmoil in which the world finds itself. Governments were more likely, it seemed, to rush to save jobs in struggling sectors of the old economy than attempt to create jobs in the fledgling sectors of the new.
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People moves this month
01 February 2009Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month
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A blueprint for action
01 February 2009Leading US businesses and NGOs have come together to offer a painstakingly negotiated blueprint for measures to tackle climate change. Federal legislators should take note, says Eileen Claussen
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Corralling the cowboys
01 February 2009As voluntary carbon market participants brace themselves for the effect of the global slowdown, Christopher Cundy reports on how the market's earlier problems are being addressed
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Registeries - ticked off?
01 February 2009If 2008 was the year when voluntary carbon standards established themselves, then 2009 should be the year for their registries.
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Price pressure
01 February 2009America's progression towards mandatory carbon emissions trading looks set to continue to support prices in its voluntary carbon market – but things look bleaker elsewhere, finds Thomas Marcello
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Counting the cost of offsetting
01 February 2009Times are tough, but offsetting emissions can still make economic as well as environmental sense. Bill Burtis explains how organisations should approach offsetting
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When is a REC not an offset?
01 February 2009Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.