Sweden’s former Head of Climate negotiation Anders Turesson
Click here to view the embedded video. Nuclear power on the agenda towards a climate-neutral societal planning The week that has passed has been chock-a-block with new challenges. One crisis has come...
View ArticleSydney are on the track to meet its 70 % GHG reduction target
The City of Sydney is committed to innovative low carbon solutions, to share our research and to build partnerships for action says the female Mayor of Sidney Clover Moore. We were the first...
View ArticleUK top companies have no targets on Green House Gas Emissions
Nearly half of the UK’s top companies do not have targets on greenhouse gas emissions, despite years of legislation and campaigning on the issue, a study by the Carbon Trust has found. Forty of the...
View ArticleSave carbon in soils and trees, sell credits
Carbon farming plan in Australia approved by House of Parliament. Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet described the vote as a win for farmers, Indigenous Australia and the...
View ArticleForest credits on the agenda
In India’s first public afforestation scheme, a World Bank-funded project in Himachal Pradesh will not only re-green the hills but also earn carboncredits for the state. Additional Chief Secretary...
View ArticleVoluntary Carbon Market 2011 – new report
For five years, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have published the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Reports to shed light on trading volumes, credit prices,...
View ArticleWorld Bank to launch $130m CDM fund
The World Bank will use U.N. climate talks later this year to launch a new initiative to funnel CDM cash to some of the world’s poorest countries, a bank official told Point Carbon News. Read also...
View ArticleCity ranking in Europe and the London Olympics 2012
In an interview with Andrew Mitchell, FCO Director for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in London this week we discussed the Sustainability targets for the games. See the interview and what he said...
View Article89% see climate change as a serious problem in a new European survey
As Europe takes action to meet its objectives, it is important to understand the attitudes and behaviour of EU citizens towards climate change and their expectations for the future. This Eurobarometer...
View ArticleBiofuels for cars and airplanes
In an article today in The New York Times we could read that the world’s airlines will carry 2.8 billion passengers and 46 million tons of freight this year. They will burn somewhere between 210...
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