5 MAY, 2010
By Michael Szabo
LONDON (Reuters) – A United Nations agency on Wednesday cut its forecast for pre-2012 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets, estimating for the first time that less than 1 billion tonnes will come to market before the climate pact expires.
“Due to the medium issuance in March (11.4 million) and in April (9.9 million), …
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U.N. forecasts less than 1 bln Kyoto offsets by 2012
South Korea moves towards carbon cap-and-trade
SEOUL, May 4 (Reuters) – South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, says it will finalise plans in September for an emissions trading scheme covering the majority of the nation’s carbon pollution.
Trading is likely to start from 2012 and is part of a two-step plan by the government to mandate emissions cuts by big polluters. The trading …
Student outrage at Kuwaiti pollution levels
By Omar Hasan
MAKTOOB NEWS
May 2, 2010
ALI SABAH AL-SALEM – Thousands of students began a two-day strike on Sunday in protest at high pollution levels caused by oil facilities in a remote residential area of southern Kuwait.
“The strike was total today. All 15,000 students stayed at home,” Ahmad al-Shuraian, head of the area’s environmental protection committee, told …
Wind’s latest problem: it … makes power too cheap
April 23 (Bloomberg) — On windy nights in northern Germany, consumers are paid to keep the lights on.
Twice this year, the nation’s 21,000 wind turbines pumped out so much power that utilities reduced customer bills for using the surplus electricity. Since the first rebate came with little fanfare at 5 a.m. one October day in …
