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Carbon credit trading schemes


postedPublished:Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:30:50 -0800 
We are receiving an increasing number of reports from people who have been approached by firms promoting carbon credit trading schemes. Are these schemes a genuine investment opportunity or a new scam? We take a look....


Pakistan to challenge UN decision on carbon credits


postedPublished:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:28:29 -0800 
Internews/Islamabad Pakistan has decided to challenge in the international court of arbitration a decision of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to grant carbon credits to India on a controversial hydropower project without mandatory clearance of its trans-boundary environmental impact assessment....


Pak to challenge UN's decision of granting carbon credits to India in world court


postedPublished:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:04:30 -0800 
Islamabad, Jan 2 (ANI): Pakistan has decided to challenge a UN agency's decision to grant carbon credits to India on a controversial hydropower project in the international court of arbitration....

Carbon farming initiative for veg growers to be assessed


postedPublished:Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:37 -0800 
Queensland horticulture body Growcom, says it intends to assess opportunities for Australian fruit and vegetable growers to generate credits under the Australian Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) scheme. The scheme allows landowners to generate carbon credits, and ultimately income streams, by conducting projects that reduce emissions or sequester carbon in the environment. Growcom’s ......

Pakistan to challenge UN's decision of granting carbon credits to India in world court


postedPublished:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:23:00 -0800 
Islamabad, Jan 2 : Pakistan has decided to challenge a UN agency’s decision to grant carbon credits to India on a controversial hydropower project in the international court of arbitration....

Lufthansa To Fly First Commercial Transatlantic Flight Powered By Biofuel


postedPublished:Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:11:39 -0800 
Achtung, enviro-conscious jetsetters. Forget about buying carbon credits as absolution for warming the globe as you globe trot and instead purchase a ticket on the first commercial transatlantic flight powered by biofuels. On Thursday, a Lufthansa 747-400 is scheduled to fly from Frankfurt, Germany, to , D.C., burning 40 tons of a biofuel mix made ......

Map earth from ‘cloud', get carbon credits cheap


postedPublished:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:14:30 -0800 
DES Mapping Solutions, a Singapore-based company, is bringing to India cloud-based ‘data appliance' product that helps clients develop and own carbon credits....

Record Surge in CO2 Credit Volume May Hamper 2012 Price Rebound


postedPublished:Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:17:41 -0800 
More than twice as many new carbon credits were supplied to the world’s second-biggest emissions market this year, damping prospects for a recovery from record- low prices in 2012....

Ban on dodgy carbon credits a welcome first step


postedPublished:Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:13:38 -0800 
Forest owners have welcomed the government decision to prevent emitters from using dodgy carbon credits to meet their obligations under the NZ Emission Trading Scheme (NZETS)....

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Pakistan fumes over UN carbon credits t...
Published:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:43:08 -0800
Islamabad, Jan 2 (IANS) Pakistan plans to challenge a decision of an UN agency to grant carbon credits to India on a hydropower project.......

Carbon credit trading schemes...
Published:Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:30:50 -0800
We are receiving an increasing number of reports from people who have been approached by firms promoting carbon credit trading schemes. Are these schemes a genuine investment oppo......

Pakistan to challenge UN decision on ca...
Published:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:28:29 -0800
Internews/Islamabad Pakistan has decided to challenge in the international court of arbitration a decision of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to grant carbo......

Pak to challenge UN's decision of g...
Published:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:04:30 -0800
Islamabad, Jan 2 (ANI): Pakistan has decided to challenge a UN agency's decision to grant carbon credits to India on a controversial hydropower project in the international co......

Carbon farming initiative for veg growe...
Published:Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:37 -0800
Queensland horticulture body Growcom, says it intends to assess opportunities for Australian fruit and vegetable growers to generate credits under the Australian Government’s Ca......

Pakistan to challenge UN's decision...
Published:Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:23:00 -0800
Islamabad, Jan 2 : Pakistan has decided to challenge a UN agency’s decision to grant carbon credits to India on a controversial hydropower project in the international court of ......