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 …
This report gives a detailed account of emissions trading schemes and their potential for environmental mitigation and profit generation. The authors cover the U.S. acid rain program, the Kyoto protocol and its clean development mechanism, the European Union emissions trading scheme, climate exchanges, China's pilot programs, and the possibility of …
This book concentrates on transactions involving forward carbon credits, in other words transactions where the parties to a contract agree to buy or sell carbon credits to be generated and delivered in the future. As a result, it does not deal either with transactions involving carbon credits already issued for …
This report presents the results of a survey on "Reporting the Business Implications of Climate Change in Sustainability Reports". This is a survey to catalogue types of reporting on climate change and was conducted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and KPMG's Global Sustainability Services. The survey found that while …
Little headway was made at the un climate change conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 6 to 17, 2006. The most important issue, mandating commitments to cutting carbon emissions, was stonewalled, with the us refusing to budge from its stated positions, as expected, and the European Union pushing for …
as the trustee of the Community Development Carbon Fund, the World Bank has agreed to buy carbon credits from two Indian companies ostensibly to promote projects with better technologies in the building material industry. The construction sector in India is considered one of the most carbon intensive sectors representing about …
new South Wales (nsw) premier Morris Iemma, South Australian premier Mike Rann and Victorian environment minister John Thwaites have recently issued a paper that suggests a possible design for a national emission trading scheme that will cut Australia's greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent over the next 50 years. But …
The ministry says it received a positive response from prospective investors in India and abroad and states like Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, had also shown interest. The proposed On June 27, 2006, bbc reported that Germany had made unbelievable cuts to its emission targets for the 2008-2012 phase of the …
www.offsetters.com Naive operators Hadi Dowlatabadi, one of the founders of this site under review calls himself a reformed carbon emitter. The Canada-based scientist used to travel more than 100,000 km a year and even owned a sports utility vehicle for four days before deciding it wasn't for him. Now, he …
european plans to cut pollution have seen a set back following a massive slump in markets, caused by the "cack-handed' way in which carbon emissions trading was set up within the continent, say energy experts. The European Commission (ec) has found that in 2005 alone eu industrial units pumped out …
The European Union (eu) has decided that all flights taking off from and landing in its territory to buy carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The implementation of the decision will be worked out by 2008, according to uk minister of state for climate change and environment Elliot …
on march 2, 2006, the Kyoto Protocol got some teeth with its Compliance Committee beginning operations. The 20-member body comprises two branches: the Enforcement Branch and the Facilitative Branch. The former has the power to determine consequences for parties that do not meet their commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, while …
the European Commission (ec) has said that the uk can't increase the amount of carbon dioxide (co2) emissions allowed to its industry under the E uropean Union's (eu's) emissions trading scheme one of Europe's key instruments to meet commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. The country had sought to change its …
corrosive oceans: Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic. If this continues it could cause mass extinction of marine life similar to that which occurred 65 million years ago when dinosaurs disappeared, according to Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. The …
This article examines the question of how to interpret a relationship between income and carbon emissions in a country (the environmental kuznets curve [EKC] for carbon). A very simple and graphical structural model of an EKC is developed, and the problems of applying the concept to carbon are discussed. A …
The aim of the study was to increase the understanding of the fundamental drivers of carbon emissions in the UK and to show how all carbon emissions can be attributed to the delivery of products and services to meet the needs of the end consumer. From this work, it is …
World power and gas markets have a natural relationship with global tradable carbon permits markets, including the U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the latter officially launched in January 2005. Electric utilities operate their power plants based in part on the price of the power …
This publication takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of …
In a loss of face for the Bush administration, nine us states have decided to introduce mandatory greenhouse gas emission controls in the country's first-of-its-kind regional agreement. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont seek to freeze carbon dioxide emissions from big power …
