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Carbon Economics

Carbon Prices in Europe Projected to Lag in 2012: Barclays

October 17, 2011

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Trevor Sikorski, head of environmental market research at investment bank Barclays Capital, presented a bearish outlook for carbon prices in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) through 2012. In recent weeks, the cost of carbon emissions in the EU ETS has been pushed down to a two [...]

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Climate Week NYC 2011 Jump Starts The Clean Revolution

September 26, 2011

Climate Week NYC 2011 was held during September 19-26 in New York City with some of the world’s leading businesses and governments when it comes to green initiatives in attendance. For this third annual conference, widely publicized events were held throughout the week promoting the economic benefits of tackling climate change especially through public-private partnerships. [...]

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Europe’s Carbon Market: A Progress Report Presented

July 3, 2011

The Climate Registry (TCR) hosted an informative webinar last week entitled ‘Update from Europe: A Carbon Market in Progress’ which gave a brief history of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and presented the future outlook of the program. Since 2005, European nations have been running its economy-wide cap and trade program that [...]

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Regional Cap-and-Trade Brings Economic Benefit to Northeast

March 6, 2011

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first cap-and-trade for carbon dioxide in the United States, has brought substantial economic benefits to the ten Northeastern states participating in the program. In a report released by RGGI, it was determined that 80% of the $789.2 million worth of proceeds from carbon permit auctions have been invested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

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Major Global Investors Demand Climate Action in Cancun

November 18, 2010

The world’s largest global investors released a statement this past week calling on the United States and the international community to come together to take action on global climate change at the COP16 in Cancun starting on November 29th. Lead by organizations such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGC) and the Investor Group [...]

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Climate Finance Report Released By UN Advisory Group

November 8, 2010

The United Nations High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) issued its final report outlining a suggested path to achieve the goal of providing $100 billion per year to developing countries by 2020. This target of climate finance was set out at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties 15 (COP15) in Copenhagen last December. The [...]

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Global Economies Putting Price Tags On Carbon

October 20, 2010

Pioneering research was just released by The Climate Institute of Australia in an official report examining the direct and indirect carbon pricing in six major economies across the world. Vivid Economics conducted the research assessing the various incentives for clean energy deployment within the electricity generation sector of Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the [...]

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Tokyo Hosts International Carbon Action Partnership

June 27, 2010

The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP), launched in 2007, consists of “countries and regions that have implemented or are actively pursuing the implementation of carbon markets through mandatory cap and trade systems.” ICAP was established with a political declaration in alignment with the United Nations to facilitate the establishment of a well-functioning global carbon market. Made up [...]

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Pricing Carbon Takes Evolutionary Activism

February 17, 2010

Considering oneself to be an Evolutionary is about making a commitment to wholeheartedly participate in every dimension of the evolutionary process. This means taking full responsibility for continuously developing the interior realms of our individual consciousness and collective culture while simultaneously looking for opportunities to engage in the evolution of the system that supports our [...]

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