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27 january 2010
World Ecological Forum: Business Leaders Join Forces to Tackle Climate Change
The World Ecological Forum (Sweden, Jan. 26, 2010) announced that its first summit will bring together prominent industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and environmental experts to fight climate change. This inaugural summit will be held in the UNESCO-protected city of Visby on Gotland, Sweden, on 1-2 July 2010.
27 january 2010
UN panel defends climate change evidence
The UN climate panel has rejected as "baseless and misleading" a newspaper report that raised doubts about the evidence behind a claim that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters.
26 january 2010
Copenhagen Accord faces $30 billion aid test
Rich nations are pledging almost $30 billion in aid from 2010-12 to help the poor combat climate change in an early test of last month's "Copenhagen Accord" that is vague about conditions and who gets cash.
22 january 2010
Greens propose $20bn tax on carbon
THE Greens have called on the government to back a two-year $20 billion interim carbon tax proposal to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a decision on the emissions trading scheme or any global agreement on targets.
21 january 2010
EU carbon emissions, EUA price forecasts to 2020
The global economic downturn will slash European industrial emissions enough that the bloc's greenhouse gas trading scheme will see a surplus in carbon permits again in its second phase (2008-2012), according to analyst forecasts.
20 january 2010
Europe mulls deeper emissions cuts, deadline looms
European Union environment ministers will seek a strategy for reviving global climate talks at a meeting in Spain this week, after a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen last month ended in failure.
19 january 2010
MIT study can improve carbon emissions
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says Damco’s carbon management approach could improve emission calculation by up to 25 percent.
19 january 2010
EU carbon sheds early
European carbon emissions futures reversed earlier gains, as operators started to sell off excess permits even though a cold weather snap was driving up energy demand, traders said.
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