In his State of the Union address, President Bush vowed to cut consumption of petrol, but ruled out a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions:
“President George W. Bush made his strongest effort yet to slow the growth in greenhouse gases, using his State of the Union speech yesterday to pledge to cut US petrol use by [...]
Trading volumes on the European Climate Exchange rose from 1.4 million tons of carbon emission permits in 2005 to 10.2 tons in 2006, according to this report.
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Further talk that the US adminstration may soon announce a reversal of climate change policy, this time predicted in the State of the Union Address by the US President to Congress.
“In his quest for a defining legacy beyond the Iraq war, a chastened President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address will put energy [...]
Not everyone believes the supermarkets claims of going green, with their recent actions against climate change. Environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, has a more cynical take here. For the record, we are not convinced that limiting consumer choices by moving stores back into town centres would move us very far towards the goal of [...]
The good folks at New Values Community are hosting their 3rd Master Class for carbon emissions traders on 2007-02-22. The theme will be: “Will Emission Trading survive the first trading period?”.
Details here.
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