In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
A German government decision to back an almost total exemption for industry from new rules that would force companies to pay for the carbon dioxide they emit threatens to undermine a key tenet of European Union climate policy, climate campaigners warn. The decision is a victory for German industry, which …
Namrata Singh | TNN Mumbai: The US financial crisis is expected to have an impact on the global carbon credit market, given that Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley are said to have huge carbon assets. The carbon assets of Lehman Brothers, which filed for Chapter 11 protection on Monday, are …
With the global carbon trade booming, environmental projects in developing countries have joined forces to finance their poverty reduction efforts by selling carbon credits collectively As a rule, the world of carbon credits is dominated by large- scale industrial projects backed by international companies with deep pockets. But Cambodia is …
LEHMAN IMPACT Chitra Unnithan & Vinay Umarji / Ahmedabad September 16, 2008, 4:40 IST With companies willing to accommodate environmental strategies into business plans, courses on carbon markets are increasingly being taught in Indian business schools. Management institutes like the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), IIM Lucknow (IIM-L) and …
New York, Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt. The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios …
EUROPEAN Union lawmakers voted to cut in half, to 5%, an ambitious target for using crop-based biofuels for European road transport needs by 2020. The vote by the European Parliament's industry committee deals a blow to climate-change goals agreed on by EU leaders last year to try to cut carbon-dioxide …
New Delhi: For those who believe India is not doing enough to check the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, here is some news that should serve as an eye-opener. Through carbon trading projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be avoided …
The Australian government is set to introduce an emission trading scheme (ETS) which it plans to commence in 2010. Although the government has released a Green Paper outlining the parameters for the design of an emission trading scheme, one of the key debating points is around the caps on emissions, …
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 5, 2008, 0:15 IST The recent claim made by state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) that it was the world
Sujatha Byravan Engineering school campuses are ideally placed to develop into fertile breeding grounds for climate innovation. Technology institutions in India have the capacity to become bellwether centres for near-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Such a transformation could generate technological and social innovations that reduce GHG emissions; produce the next …
Environment groups demanded on Friday that Australia ignore the "greenhouse mafia" as major energy and mining companies met the government to demand greater compensation for a coming emissions trading regime. The government is planning to introduce one of the world's biggest carbon trading schemes by 2010 that will force companies …
Poland faces crippling energy price rises which will threaten growth and employment unless the European Union rethinks its carbon trading system, officials in Warsaw are warning. In January the Commission put forward a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent, improve energy efficiency by 20 per cent …
CANBERRA - The Australian government is seeking to introduce one of the world's most inclusive carbon trading schemes by 2010 but needs the support of big business, which fears emissions trading will make them less competitive. Energy Minister Martin Ferguson met more than 70 large firms at parliament on Friday …
Press Trust Of India / Miami September 01, 2008, 0:13 IST India is the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, with state-owned NTPC topping the list of companies belching the deadly gas, according to the new data released by a Washington-based think-tank, which has advocated an
Tropical deforestation is responsible for 15-20% of total man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. In December 2007, at the international conference of Bali, the United Nations acknowledged that a viable solution to climate change must include a mechanism to limit deforestation and forest degradation. Today, the most widely used economic tool …
India, China Say They Must Set Aside 1% GDP To Help Third World Nitin Sethi | TNN Accra: Asian rivals India and China have joined forces to make a forceful demand that rich nations set aside 0.5%-1% of the GDP to help the developing world face the challenge posed by …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:01 IST Indian companies and exporters could face serious challenges in operating across the developed countries in future as many of them are considering moves to impose
Raghvendra Rao Indian Railways' plan to use state-of-the-art technology to operate Electrical Multiple Units (EMUs) in the Mumbai suburban area, primarily aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and earning them carbon credits, is now on track with the Railways Ministry finalising the project design and initiating the process of getting approval …
Replacing much of Australia's beef and lamb with kangaroo meat could significantly cut the continent's greenhouse gas emissions and save its native terrain. A recent study suggests phasing out some 7 million cattle and 36 million sheep from Australian rangelands
