Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Australia's top polluters, from steel firms and coal miners to airlines, will save about A$2.5 billion over 5 years after a decision to align the nation's carbon scheme with Europe's, a leading analyst firm said on Tuesday. Carbon analysts RepuTex also said in a report polluters did not need to …
This report sets out the final recommendations of the Panel for the role, design, and operations of the CDM. Presented at the 69th meeting of the CDM Executive Board (September 2012) and subsequently made public, it affirms the importance of maintaining the CDM as a tool to help address the …
CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has hit back over claims that this week's carbon price policy reversal would blow a hole in the federal budget, saying any impact would likely be dwarfed by fluctuations in exchange rates and other variables. The government announced on Tuesday it was scrapping a $15 …
Australia plans to link its carbon trading scheme with the EU's, enabling firms to use European permits from mid-2015 to emit carbon dioxide (CO2). The EU's carbon market is the world's largest and the deal is being seen as a significant step towards cutting greenhouse gas emissions globally. The aim …
The European Union (EU) has announced that it will link its emissions trading system with Australia's emissions trading scheme, allowing businesses to use carbon units and comply under either system. Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet, and the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard announced …
Shanghai on Thursday launched a pilot carbon emission rights trading scheme in a bid to encourage carbon emission reductions. About 200 major local polluters, including industrial companies whose annual carbon dioxide emissions reach 20,000 tonnes and non-industrial enterprises whose annual emissions total 10,000 tonnes, will take part in the trading, …
California's air regulator this week defended its decision to allow emitters to use offset credits in the state's forthcoming emissions trading system, refuting claims made in a lawsuit by two green groups that there is no way to ensure the environmental integrity of those projects. The plaintiffs who brought the …
California's air regulator this week defended its decision to allow emitters to use offset credits in the state's forthcoming emissions trading system, refuting claims made in a lawsuit by two green groups that there is no way to ensure the environmental integrity of those projects. The plaintiffs who brought the …
As developing countries prepare commitments to mitigation activities in agriculture, investments should be guided by a thorough understanding of the appropriate incentives to encourage farmers to innovate and adopt new mitigation practices. This policy brief examines the benefits and costs of mitigation practices, financing opportunities, institutional arrangements and enabling conditions …
The European Union moved to shore up the faltering price of carbon dioxide emissions on Wednesday, amid widespread concern that the current low price is failing to encourage companies to reduce their greenhouse gas output. But the changes announced to the emissions trading scheme are relatively minor, resulting in changes …
A planned quick fix to the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme is expected to emerge over the coming weeks as a first step to the deeper reforms urgently sought by environmental and some business campaigners. The European Commission has yet to confirm the date when it will publish details of …
The Euro crisis, coupled with unresolved global issues over the post-2012 Kyoto framework, continues to make carbon pricing a volatile and unpredictable activity. Demand for carbon has already reduced drastically as a result of the European sovereign debt crisis according to a new report from energy analysts GlobalData. At the …
Pragmatism has recently taken up the ‘practice turn’ in order to overcome the neglect of agency in poststructuralist accounts. To explore potential advantages if such an approach is used for an analysis of carbon markets, it is first asked whether a practice approach could allow us to go beyond the …
Creating a mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) in tropical developing countries has become, from 2005 onward, a central element in international climate protection discourse. The goal is to create financial incentives for forest protection by making avoided deforestation a tradable good that can be sold on …
To investigate the ‘promiscuous history’ of the efficiency of emissions trading markets, I draw from Actor Network Theory and specifically the work of Bruno Latour, highlighting how the commonly made claim to efficiency was constructed as a ‘fact’. I trace the processes, beginning in the early 1970s, that constructed first …
To provides an overall framework for thinking about the construction of carbon markets, we adopt James Der Derian's ‘virtuous war’ theory to develop an argument about carbon as a virtuous commodity. This refers to the close affinity between virtuality and virtue – the technological and the ethical – in the …
Following the rapid development of carbon markets, little attention has been devoted to what precisely is being traded. Some authors have speculated that carbon can be considered as a form of money (Button; House and Victor). Not only is making money from carbon possible via several market devices but this …
This report is one of three commissioned by the High-Level Panel to facilitate its provision of recommendations. The objective of this report is to provide an in-depth analysis of the evolving context of the CDM, particularly with regard to new and emerging mechanisms, and to locate the CDM within the …
New Zealand carbon prices hit a two-month high this week, extending gains as ongoing speculation of tighter liquidity in the European carbon market was expected to bolster the New Zealand market in the longer term. New Zealand permits for spot delivery (NZUs) rose as high as NZ$7.00, traders said, their …
New Delhi: Government policies on subsidy are preventing Indian energy-intensive companies from improving their carbon image globally even though comparable firms in the developed world on an average have higher overall emission figures, according to India Market and Environment Report. The report by BSE-GREENEX, the co-creators of India’s first energy …
