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Carbon emissions

EU Commission Announces Historic Emissions data for Aviation on which Allocations will be Determined

11th Mar 2011 by Madlen King

EU Commission Announces Historic Emissions data for Aviation on which Allocations will be Determined

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LRQA Business Assurance Food Safety Blog, February 2011

28th Feb 2011 by Cor Groenveld

Certification was a recurring theme throughout the GFSI Conference in London. With “Developing” a food safety culture the overall theme of the conference, the links between the two topics is the focus of today’s blog.

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Carbon Expo Barcelona

Event: 1st Jun 2011 – 3rd Jun 2011 by Madlen King

In just five years, this event, held at the heart of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean area , has established itself as the world’s leading global event for stakeholder in the Carbon Market in just five years. In 2010, 250 exhibitors from 83 countries and around 3,000 visitors from 111 countries attended the carbon market’s leading [...]

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Californian Emissions Trading Rules set for 2012 Start

17th Feb 2011 by Madlen King

Last week the California Air Resources Board, published their timelines for finalising the rules for emissions trading within California for a January 1st 2012 start date.  The programme of work which can be accessed here http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/capandtrade/programactivities.pdf details a variety of workshops throughout 2011 addressing offsets, compliance, allocation as well as linkages to other schemes in [...]

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The EB has committed to build a CDM that is fit for a post-2012 world

17th Feb 2011 by Madlen King

Martin Hession, was this week appointed as the new Chair of the CDM executive board to drive the improvements requested of them at the UN climate talks in Cancun last year. Those improvements included Improve the transparency and consistency of the regulatory framework of the CDM by continuing to revise its official documentation. Provide greater [...]

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LRQA COP16 Blog, The summary

17th Dec 2010 by Andy Ritchie

In this final blog Andrew sums up his thoughts, the good and the bad outcomes and the areas which are still under discussion.

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LRQA COP16 Blog, Day 10 – It came as a surprise to all of us, I guess.

13th Dec 2010 by Andy Ritchie

Andrew Ritchie, Climate Change Services Manager, LRQA blogs from the final day of COP 16. “Just when it looked as though the Cancun negotiations would produce little more than a commitment to carry on talking, common sense and the recognition of the need to compromise for the good of us all prevailed, and we reached a historic, ground-breaking and legally-binding agreement”

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LRQA COP16 Blog, Day 9 – It’s quiet…too quiet’

13th Dec 2010 by Andy Ritchie

Andrew Ritchie, Climate Change Services Manager, LRQA, blogs from day 9 of COP 16. “I never thought I’d find myself drawing parallels between COP 16 here in Cancun and Shrek (and probably a host of other films), but the clichéd line, ‘It’s quiet…too quiet’ seems particularly apt as a description of Day 9.”

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Extravagant stunt illustrating civil society throwing a lifeline to COP 16 negotiators

13th Dec 2010

This video from LinkTV.org, covers the extravagant stunt put on by TckTckTck and Greenpeace illustrating civil society throwing a lifeline to the COP 16 negotiators on the final day of the conference.

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LRQA COP 16 Blog, Day 8 – Hard facts difficult to obtain and uncertainty is rife

9th Dec 2010 by Andy Ritchie

Unfortunately, as is to be expected at this stage of the COP negotiations, hard facts are difficult to obtain and uncertainty is rife, blogs Andrew Ritchie live from COP 16 in Cancun.

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