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Carbon markets

HP, L’Oreal, Pepsi and others ask suppliers for emissions data

– 21st Jan 2008 by Sarah Whitworth

Hewlett Packard, L’Oreal, PepsiCo, and Reckitt Benckiser have joined the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, which wants to create a single standardized approach to measuring the carbon footprint of supply chains.

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2008 could be tipping point for voluntary carbon markets

– 16th Jan 2008

There remains a huge untapped potential in the voluntary carbon markets waiting to be explored. Year 2008 could very well be the tipping point for the voluntary carbon markets

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Britain must stop ducking action on green issues

– 15th Jan 2008

Little or nothing is being done to develop the low-carbon infrastructure that would secure us a competitive advantage when the price of carbon rises - as it inevitably will, a recent article in The Guardian reports.

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TerraPass join the Federal Trade Commission hearing on carbon offsets

– 13th Jan 2008

TerraPass joined industry experts, environmental and consumer groups, and academics at a Federal Trade Commission hearing on carbon offsets, reports a blog written by Adam Stern.

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Voluntary Carbon Standard interview on Climatechangecorp.com

– 7th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs

LRQA’s Dr Anne Marie Warris was interviewed by the leading climate change website. She talks about some of the key issues facing the voluntary carbon market and how the VCS is uniquely positioned to offer the voluntary market credibility.

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Power firms to pocket £6bn from carbon ‘handouts’ in new emissions regime

– 2nd Jan 2008

The UK’s biggest polluters will reap a windfall of at least £6bn from rising power prices and the soaring value of carbon under the new European carbon trading scheme that critics say fails to correct the flaws of the system it replaced.

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Carbon Coalition Draft Activity Program 2008

– 14th Dec 2007

The Carbon Coalition draft activity plan includes the following projects which are planned for implementation in 2008.

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U.S. Maintains Isolated Stance in Bali Climate Talks

– 12th Dec 2007

Carbon credits and the stalemate between the U.S., China and Australia will be two hot topics over the next nine days, Kevin Tuerff of EnviroMedia Social Marketing reports from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali.

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Policing the voluntary carbon market

– 12th Dec 2007

Voluntary greenhouse-gas emission offset markets are in need of government oversight, reports a recent article called, Policing the voluntary carbon market, written by leading experts in the fieild.

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Carbon, a new asset class?

– 12th Dec 2007

Investors are already testing the potential of markets in greenhouse gas emissions, but what are the risks and how can they be avoided?
by Charles Longden, December 3rd, 2007.

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