LRQA COP 16 Blog, Day four – Negotiations Progressing Steadily in Cancun
3rd Dec 2010 by Madlen King
Madlen King, Global Head of Climate Change and Sustainability, LRQA, reports from day four of COP 16.
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Global State of GHG Emissions needs COP16 to deliver
19th Nov 2010 by Madlen King
The ‘World Energy Outlook 2010’ published by the International Energy Agency last week reflects on what it calls ‘the twin challenges of climate change and energy security’. According to the Annual report, the non-binding outcome of COP15 – the Copenhagen Accord – ‘falls a long way short of what is required to set us on [...]
COP16/CMP6
Event: 29th Nov 2010 – 10th Dec 2010 by Madlen King
COP16/CMP6 is the 16th edition of Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) and the 6th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP). The aim is to discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of [...]
Carbon Expo 2010
Event: 26th May 2010 – 28th May 2010
CARBON EXPO 2010 will bring together the key actors of the global carbon market and high-level speakers to discuss crucial and challenging issues.
IMO making progress on addressing emissions
18th Apr 2010
There may have been more progress at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) environment committee meeting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulation for shipping than it first appears, but the big obstacle holding back more decisive advances are Kyoto Protocol equity principles.
Study links Independent Assurance and Consumer Credibility
16th Apr 2010
A new report released from CarbonSmart in March reveals that Carbon and sustainability data disclosed by companies in the FTSE 350 lack credibility.
Measuring Organisational Carbon Footprint, ISO 14064
20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs
ISO 14064: an emerging standard on Greenhouse Gas
accounting and verification is the title of a working paper on ISO’s latest GHG standard. The paper from Kevin Boehmer, Canadian Standards Association and
Secretary for the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change and
Aleg Cherp, ECOLOGIA and Central European University
Budapest and an expert on the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change, takes a closer look at the development of ISO 14064, the voluntary standard for organisations looking to measure and report on their organisation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
How to curb CO2 emission in shipping industry?
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 [...]
Carbon emissions to soar unless we invest between now and 2030
12th Oct 2009
New Energy Finance and the World Economic Forum have warned that unless at least $515bn per annum is invested in clean energy between now and 2030, carbon emissions will reach a level deemed unsustainable by scientists, causing temperatures to rise by two degrees globally.
Kyoto Protocol is not perfect, but effective
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 [...]
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