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  • Carbon market speculators get caught short

    19 February 2009

    Yesterday saw the largest ever volumes in Europe's carbon market, as speculators betting on a further collapse in prices found themselves caught out.

  • Analyst expects CCS to surge following US stimulus package

    19 February 2009

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received a fillip from the US, with $3.5 billion earmarked in President Barack Obama's stimulus package for demonstration projects and growing support at the state level.

  • GM, Exxon and Chevron make climate blacklist

    19 February 2009

    Nine US and Canadian companies have done such a poor job in evaluating and disclosing the impact of climate risk on their business operations that they earned a place on a 'Climate Watch List' created by investors.

  • US stimulus package provides large boost for biomass energy but little for biofuels

    18 February 2009

    US biomass energy looks set to be a big beneficiary of the $787bn economic stimulus package signed this month by the US president Barack Obama but ethanol and biodiesel received limited support.

  • US ditches mercury trading plans

    12 February 2009

    US plans for a cap-and-trade system to cut mercury emissions are likely to be abandoned in favour of regulation, after Barack Obama's administration decided to drop a key appeal.

  • Evian and Volvic to become 'plastic neutral' in UK

    12 February 2009

    Danone Waters plans to make Evian and Volvic bottled water 'plastics-neutral' in the UK, through the use of recycled plastic.

  • Renewables provisions survive US stimulus compromise

    12 February 2009

    After a night of intense negotiations, the US House of Representatives and Senate have reached a compromise on a $789 billion economic stimulus package that includes several provisions favourable to the renewable energy sector.

  • Airlines call for inclusion in Copenhagen climate deal

    12 February 2009

    A coalition of four leading airlines have banded together to lobby for the sector's inclusion in a new climate deal, expected to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.

  • Vattenfall unveils SEK5.6bn switch to biomass fuel

    11 February 2009

    Swedish utility Vattenfall is to spend SEK5.6bn ($670m) to convert two of its three Danish combined heat and power plants to run on biomass as well as coal, as part of a SEK82bn programme to reduce emissions in the Nordic region.

  • CME to launch Australian weather contracts, quanto structures

    05 February 2009

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is to list temperature-based weather contracts for the Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.