Leading brokers in emissions spot trading within the voluntary carbon credit market.
The target for industrialised countries to provide developing countries with climate finance of $100 billion a year by 2020 was set out at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009.
If you are in a position to implement change where you work, or perhaps you own your own business, then there are many ways in which you can reduce your carbon emissions. You don’t have to be a carbon expert to work out how to do it either; in many cases it’s simply down to common sense.
The first delivery of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, which promises to cut fuel consumption by 20 per cent, will take place this week, three years behind schedule.
It may not seem like the most obvious choice when it comes to making an investment, but the global carbon trading market is now worth around $144 billion. This figure is testament to just how powerful this market is, and you don’t have to be in any particular industry or be particularly rich to get involved.
South African miner Gold Fields' innovative methane capture project at its Beatrix mine in Welkom has been registered as a Clean Development Mechanism project with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), allowing the company to earn carbon credits.
by Alan Brown for The Guardian
It is one thing to see climate change science becoming increasingly accepted, or even to have reached a tipping point in public and political opinion; it is quite another to expect that we will somehow meet the ambitious goals necessary to see greenhouse gas concentrations peak at a reasonable level.
While almost all multinational companies are now addressing their own greenhouse gas emissions, two in every five are also taking steps to reduce the carbon output of their supply chain, according to a major new report released recently.
