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IMO proposes ship emissions offset scheme, eyes CDM
01 May 2008The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is to consider using an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to control the greenhouse gases produced from shipping, as well as an offset scheme which would tap into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
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RAN slams Citi, BoA on coal financing
01 May 2008Despite big-number climate change commitments, Citi and Bank of America are continuing to bankroll the coal sector, according to a report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
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Babcock & Brown pitches 2.2GW of wind assets.
01 May 2008Babcock & Brown Wind (BBW) Partners has put up for sale 2.2GW of European wind energy assets, and has appointed Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan to advise on the disposal of some or all of the portfolio.
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Electricity users, generators at odds over ETS
01 May 2008The International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC) is calling for an overhaul of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), moving away from auctions of allowances towards free allocations based on a system of 'benchmarking' – a proposal slammed by generators.
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solar index launched
01 May 2008MAC Indexing has launched an index to track global solar energy stocks.
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People moves this month
01 May 2008ANDREI MARCU, former president and chief executive of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), has been appointed CEO of Paris-based carbon trading exchange Bluenext. Marcu spent seven years heading IETA and announced last July he was to join the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as senior managing director of energy and climate. Prior to IETA, he worked at the UN Development Programme and Ontario Hydro. Bluenext is Europe's leading spot market for EU allowances and is jointly owned by NYSE Euronext and Caisse des Dépôts.
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ANZ to follow SAM
01 May 2008Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has launched a wholesale, capital-protected investment trust focusing on climate change.
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Global food crisis threatens EU biofuels target
01 May 2008The European Commission's target to use 10% biofuels in petrol and diesel by 2020 has come under pressure from rocketing food prices and shortages in developing countries.
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China issues environmental insurance, securities diktats
01 April 2008China's State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has issued 'green insurance', 'green securities' and 'green trade' regulations, three of five expected 'green economic' schemes. The regulations are part of an ongoing policy shift from "top-down, administrative means" towards bottom-up, market-based solutions for China's environmental problems – but observers question the degree to which the agency will be able to enforce the new rules.
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New standards to boost NOx market
01 April 2008The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lowered the eight-hour ground-level ozone standard to 0.075 parts per million (ppm) from 0.08 ppm, a move expected to have significant implications for new power sources and other emitters of ozone-creating nitrogen oxides (NOx).
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