The management systems community
Event: 27th Oct 2010 – 28th Oct 2010
CARBON FORUM ASIA is the leading annual Carbon Market Trade Fair & Conference in the Asia-Pacific, where carbon credits and CDM project financing opportunities are abound. It is the platform of choice for Carbon Market professionals and governments to discuss key industry trends and issues that will shape the future of carbon trading and CDM markets in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Event: 24th Aug 2010 – 26th Aug 2010
The Biomass Finance & Investment Summit is an important meeting place where the industry and financial community participate in joint discussions to explore the financing of biomass projects. The Summit provides a momentous opportunity for these groups to exchange market intelligence, share perspectives, and to discuss what it will take to get biomass projects successfully financed.
25th Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
The international maritime transport community expects the annual volume of green-house gasses (GHG) emitted by commercial shipping to grow 55% to 1,345 metric tonnes (Mt) by 2020. In 2007, global shipping’s GHG emissions reached 870 Mt — or roughly equivalent to Germany’s production over the same period – but that figure is expected to quadruple [...]
9th Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
Aviation experts have welcomed a new proposal from recently formed Aviation Global Deal (AGD), with many saying they believe the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the industry’s governing body and International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), are unlikely to reach agreement with United Nations for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December.
3rd Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
With the Copenhagen round less than three months away, it’s easy to forget that Kyoto – signed by 37 industrialised countries and the European Union — is nearing its 12th birthday. Its critics argue that few signatory nations will meet their binding five-year targets to reduce by 5% their county’s green house emissions by 2012 [...]
7th May 2009
This Carbon Disclosure Project – Supply Chain Report 2009 looks for the first time at how businesses are responding to the call for action and transparency in managing carbon and climate change in their supply chain.
12th Mar 2009 by Madlen King
The Carbon Disclosure Project has just released two new reports, available at www.cdproject.net/reports.asp The CDP Public Procurement Report, which reveals the power of the public sector to use procurement to transform the UK to a low carbon economy. For the first time, local and central government are collaborating to maintain a resilient and sustainable supply [...]
19th Jan 2009 by Madlen King
The 2008 GHG Market report includes a comprehensive coverage of issues of immediate interest that IETA has been privileged to bring together in one publication.
11th Sep 2008
APX and the Gold Standard Foundation are pleased to announce today that the Gold Standard Registry now includes more than 200 valid greenhouse gas reduction projects in various stages of approval representing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in over 30 countries. This dramatic growth — well ahead of expectations — represents a total potential [...]
3rd Jul 2008
Carbon credit brokers have sprung up across the nation. It is the environmental cottage industry we had to have in the long wait until 2010 when Australia finally gets a national emissions trading scheme.
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