The National Biodiversity Authority has released a new set of rules to manage sharing of benefits generated through the use of biological resources. The Biological Diversity (Access to biological Resources and Knowledge Associated thereto and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits) Regulation 2025 was approved by the Central government and …
deforestation Kenya evicts settlers Three decades after allotting land to the hunter-gatherer community of Ogiek in Mau forest, the Kenyan government has asked them to leave. The 2,500 Ogiek families have been asked to surrender their title deeds by October. The move, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said, was made to …
France's proposed carbon tax is expected to be included in the 2010 budget but will probably be set below the 32 euros per metric ton level recommended by a special advisory panel, Budget Minister Eric Woerth said on Tuesday. The panel, headed by former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard, has …
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a policy brief summarizing OECD analyses showing that the cost of action to mitigate climate change would be minimized if a cost-effective set of policy instruments, with a focus on carbon pricing, were applied as broadly as possible across all emission …
The British government on Wednesday said it will make carbon emissions credits exempt from value-added tax (VAT) from Thursday in response to fraudulent trading on a French emissions exchange. "The new law, which takes effect from midnight tonight, follows evidence that commodity trading in emissions allowances is being used by …
British Columbia is still committed to promoting clean energy projects despite taking a blow on Tuesday from its own power utility regulator, the Canadian province's energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. Blair Lekstrom, British Columbia's minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, said his government has …
Karachi Transport Action Committee and Anjuman-e-Ittahad Bus Malikan Karachi leaders Muhammad Ashraf Banglori, Chaudhry Mazhar Hussain, Tanzeem Khan and Nazeer Banglori have demanded of the apex court to take notice of unjustified fresh rise in oil prices by the present government. In a joint statement on Sunday, the transporters community …
The public transporters of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration on Nogaza Road to press the government for review of the decision of carbon tax on petroleum products. Over 500 public transporters staged the protest. They were shouting slogans demanding revision of increase in petroleum prices. Mutahida …
This article proposes and investigates a project-based crediting mechanism which based o a national CO2 emission intensity standard for new power plants to be added in the electricity sector from 2013-2020 in developing countries. Under this mechanism, the power plant emission intensity standard is used as a basis for issuing …
The new analysis presents recent and expected emission developments of each country and various other indicators, and gives an overview of the most important activities by the federal governments to respond to the threat of climate change. The overall performance of the G8 countries is assessed by comparing three groups …
Export Basket High In Carbon Content: US Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: Should the industrialized world be allowed to put an import tax on goods from India because it has a
The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialized nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text. Two degrees is seen by the European Union and many developing countries as the threshold beyond which climate change …
The levying of carbon surcharge on POL products at fixed rates was the decision of the government of Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not ask for its imposition as conditionality under the Stand-by Arrangement (SBA). This was stated by, Country Representative of IMF for Pakistan, Paul Ross …
State Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Saturday said that the government is considering to abolish carbon surcharge levied on kerosene oil and diesel in the recent budget. Briefing Senators in the upper house, she said that members from both Senate and National Assembly have expressed …
The government on Thursday withdrew the decision of levying carbon surcharge on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) by deleting the word "carbon" from the head of the levy. Now "surcharge" will be used for taxing petroleum products from the next financial year ie 2009-10 after severe drubbing from different quarters. Prime …
The CNG Station Owners Association of Pakistan (CSOAP) has criticised the government's decision to impose Carbon Tax (CT) on CNG sector, saying that the move would badly hit the industry. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Malik Khuda Baksh said that association had rejected the decision made in this …
The Petroleum Ministry has sought an explanation from Finance Ministry regarding replacement of petroleum development levy (PDL) with carbon surcharge on two petroleum products-JP-4 and JP-8. The government is currently charging Rs 3 per litre PDL on JP-4 and JP-8. The Petroleum Ministry in its letter to Finance Ministry has …
The best way to curb global warming would be a carbon tax. The money raised could be divided up among citizens or used to repay the national debt. A tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) would give everyone an incentive to emit less of it. It would be simple, direct and …
