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Carbon trading

Green-e Climate certifying carbon offsets

28th Feb 2008

The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation’s first independent certification for carbon offset products.

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Japan aims for emissions trade with Russia

27th Feb 2008

Japan and Russia have agreed to start talks on fighting global warming, including possible greenhouse gas emissions trading that would help Tokyo to meet its goals under the Kyoto Protocol, media said on Sunday.

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Climate Change, localised global approach

14th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs

With climate change dominating headlines around the world, this Wall Street Journal article takes a look at the efforts of nine cities to reduce their carbon footprint and their energy bills.

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EU to auction all emissions permits

21st Jan 2008

The emissions trading system that has been criticised for giving power generators a £9billion windfall is likely to be swept away in 2013, the TIMES ONLINE reports.

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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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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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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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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Carbon Labelling

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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