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 …
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South Korea moves towards carbon cap-and-trade
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 …
Finally, some horsepower getting behind NZ cleantech
One hundred percent
By Chris Tobias, a day ago
Originally published in Idealog #27, page 94
It’s 11:23pm and Les Mills tycoon Phillip Mills is still at work, running weary, sounding a bit hoarse and facing the first flight out to Europe the next day. No gym balls or yoga gear today, though—the maestro of health and fitness …
Media blasts Rudd’s retreat on CPRS
Rudd’s ETS flip-flop sparks climate chaos
LENORE TAYLOR NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
April 29, 2010
THE Rudd government has conceded its emissions trading scheme could be delayed beyond the 2013 election, and that the politically inspired decision to leave the country in policy limbo for at least three years will make it much more expensive …
Clean tech potentially worth more than $5bn a year to NZ
Huge potential for New Zealand in the clean technology space:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10639905&pnum=3
EU ETS Overview
A May 2008 Pew Center analysis by two leading experts on the design and implementation of emission trading regimes reviewed the initial phase of the ETS and directly addressed these issues. Noting that the initial period (2005-7) was a trial period with the goal of developing the necessary infrastructure for successful trading, the study concluded …
Report: State of Green Business 2010
In its third annual edition of State of GreenBusiness report, GreenBiz.com continued to measure the environmental impacts of the emerging green economy. This year’s effort was characterised by the Great Recession and its myriad of impacts on individuals, companies, and governments around the world.
Carbon Intensity
Absolute greenhouse gas emissions have shrunk along with the momentum of …
Eyjafjallajoekull: The world’s first negative CO2 volcano
Who’s emitting the most CO2 per day?
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/
Clean Energy Trends 2010
According to Clean Edge, clean energy has become the driving force for the global economic recovery. In the U.S. approximately $100 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package has gone to clean-tech investments and activities. South Korea’s “Green New Deal” is estimated to commit $84 billion to clean-tech investments by 2013; and China, by some …
