Today’s Financial Times carries a guest article by Chandran Nair, founder and CEO of the Asian think-tank Global Institute for Tomorrow, about China’s strong commitment to green policies. This article reinforces the view of China we expressed earlier this week when discussing the prospects for the Kyoto process.
Among Nair’s suggestions are:
“Second, China’s [...]
The EC has now issued guidance notes to member states for the creation of carbon emission allocation plans for the 2008-2012 period.   Member states are instructed to cut overall emissions by an average of 6% over the period, to compensate for Europe’s failure to achieve its Kyoto targets. As the Financial [...]
Coal is returning as top-choice for power generation following unstable Oil and Gas prices, its high availability, and is being boosted by various research programmes into making it burn cleaner.
Michael Klein at New Values Community has just posted on the end-of-year prospects for climate change. On the positive side, we have the fact that the Kyoto Treaty came into force, and that an effective carbon emissions trading regime is now up and running in Europe. On the negative side, he quotes [...]
Jos Cozijnsen, over at New Values Community, has posted his views on the prospects for carbon emissions trading in 2006. He sees a lessening of the influence of electricity-generators on the market, as others enter the market, and thus a lower correlation between CER prices and electricity prices.
