New Values will hold another of its master classes in carbon emissions trading, in Amsterdam this Thursday.
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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice-President Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
Source: nobelprize.org
“Al Gore has for [...]

Further to a previous post concerning the introduction of carbon permit sales in a Brazilian stock market: the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange yesterday ended the first auction for carbon credits on sale in the amount of 808,450 tons of CO2. The Dutch-Belgian Fortis Bank placed the highest bid amounting to $18.5 million for all [...]

To meet the satisfaction of environmentally-conscious consumers, 9 major corporations have adhered to a new product carbon footprinting standard, which is being developed by the Carbon Trust, Defra and BSI British Standards.
EnvironmentLeader.com publicised that Coca-Cola, Mϋller Dairy, Cadbury among them are adding a carbon label to some of their products that inform the consumer exactly [...]

Lorde Browne, former CEO of BP addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting to announce the need for an ‘international climate agency’ to co-ordinate action against climate change, according to the Financial Times:
Its responsibilities would include setting a long-term goal for stabilising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; setting carbon emission targets and [...]