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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City's sleek new public bus system is attracting significant international funding in carbon credit sales, part of the capital's ongoing effort to reduce pollution and green up its smoggy image.The government of this sprawling metropolis of 9 ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union carbon allowances -- the bloc's main tool to combat climate change -- face regulation alongside other financial instruments under proposed laws published on Thursday as the Commission seeks to bolster a market shaken by fraud and oversupply."By ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's parliament on Monday endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012.The laws, the first ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A U.N. panel that oversees a $1.5 billion trade in carbon offsets has rejected advice to suspend support for new coal plants, proposing a review instead, its chairman Martin Hession said on Friday.The panel, called the executive board, manages ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia unveiled plans on Sunday to slap a carbon tax of A$23 a tonne on its 500 worst polluters from 2012, sweetened by tax cuts for voters fearing higher power bills, and paved the way to adopt the largest ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian carbon price scheme putting a tax on emissions and outlining a transition to emissions trading around 2015 will be unveiled later this week, the deputy leader of the influential Greens Party said on Monday.Christine Milne also backed ...
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The start-up of a carbon market in California, viewed as a potential template for future U.S. national emissions trading, could be delayed up to 12 months or more, experts at a carbon conference said on Thursday.The multi-billion dollar plan ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia released rules on Wednesday that would allow farmers and indigenous land owners to earn carbon credits for changing the way they burn-off grasslands, a regular practice in the fire-prone north.The rules are the first to be released for ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A 310 megawatt (MW) Kenyan wind power project has received approval to earn carbon emissions credits under the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism, a senior company executive said on Tuesday.Construction on the 617 million euro ($873.7 million) Lake Turkana ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission will release verified emissions data for 2010 from firms operating under its emissions trading scheme (ETS) on April 1, it said in a statement late on Friday.The data will be released at 1100 GMT (7 a.m. ...
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