In a hope to cash in on the global carbon market, one of the first carbon reduction initiatives in Africa is being launched in South Africa by their Central Energy Fund (CEF), encouraging investment to identify and develop carbon projects in order to cut emissions, according to Reuters.
“The CEF has a CDM [clean development mechanism] [...]

The British Colombia province in Canada is over the course of the next year, taking the Canadian lead in fighting greenhouse gas emissions after Quebec recently imposed a tax on CO2 emitting hydrocarbons. Laws will be put in place by next spring, imposing limits on industrial emissions for one, allowing for the creation of a [...]

MEPs in the European Parliament Environment Committee (ENVI) voted this Tuesday to include European airlines and all flights to the EU in the emissions trading system (ETS) by 2010. By this they are speeding up the EC’s proposal to include flights within the EU by 2011 and flights to-and-from the EU by 2012, thus combining [...]

The US’ continual disregard for setting firm targets for reducing emissions was once again demonstrated in the Washington conference last week. Bush failed to specify goals for reducing greenhouse gases, according to the New York Times. The meeting which was arranged by the Bush Administration to include several high emitting countries in order to create [...]

The Bush administration is working towards a new goal for helping developing nations to reduce their carbon emissions: a US plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 is hoping to include some of the world’s largest emitters in a scheme forcing them to try to reduce emissions as far as possible in exchange for [...]