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Blue Sphere Signs Emissions Reduction Purchase Pact with Vattenfall
Waste Management World
Blue Sphere Corp. announced that Vattenfall Energy Trading has signed an emissions reduction purchase agreement (ERPA) with the Company's subsidiary, Puresphere, to purchase carbon credits from the Company's landfill projects in Ghana and Nigeria ...

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Spectra Energy President & CEO Greg Ebel to Speak at Credit Suisse Energy Summit
Bradenton Herald
/PRNewswire/ -- Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE) President and Chief Executive Officer, Greg Ebel, will speak at the Credit Suisse Energy Summit on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, in Vail, Colo. The presentation is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:45 am ...

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Large Number of Landholders Approach CO2 Australia to Establish Carbon Sinks
AZoCleantech
This massive increase attributes to the launch of Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) in 2011. Several landowners are enquiring with CO2 Australia about registering existing sites to achieve carbon credits for the CFI. Mark Ritchie, land acquisition ...

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Berry to host workshop on managing land for carbon
Land
“During the course, areas on participant's properties will be identified where, with the right management, soil carbon is likely to be built up,” she said. “Areas more suited for storing carbon in forests will also be identified. “Carbon credits and ...

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Ugandans Invest in Trees, For Profit, Conservation
Voice of America
Trees have become an attractive investment because of the rising cost of timber and the allure of carbon credits. The Ugandan government sees these so-called "tree banks" as a means to combat deforestation. But practice remains controversial.

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Spectra Energy President & CEO Greg Ebel to Speak at Credit Suisse Energy Summit
MarketWatch (press release)
3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Spectra Energy Corp /quotes/zigman/444495/quotes/nls/se SE -1.00% President and Chief Executive Officer, Greg Ebel, will speak at the Credit Suisse Energy Summit on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, in Vail, Colo.

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Coastweek

World Bank's new scheme to help
Coastweek
... approval to the first methodology on soil carbon, a new approach for sustainable agricultural land management (SALM) that is expected to improve farming techniques, increase Kenyan farmers' resilience to climate change, and earn carbon credits.

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New Zealand spot carbon price pushes higher to six-week high
Reuters
In the secondary market for UN-backed carbon credits, spot CERs traded up nearly 6 percent at 4.20 euros. The rise in NZUs was kept in check by a rise in supply, with forest owners seen converting their permits into cash, while some emitters sold NZUs ...
BUY OR SELL-Is there still a market for UN carbon permits?Reuters Africa

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Carbon News

New Zealand spot carbon price pushes higher to six-week high
Reuters
In the secondary market for UN-backed carbon credits, spot CERs traded up nearly 6 percent at 4.20 euros. The rise in NZUs was kept in check by a rise in supply, with forest owners seen converting their permits into cash, while some emitters sold NZUs ...
BUY OR SELL-Is there still a market for UN carbon permits?Reuters Africa
Carbon hits a six-week highCarbon News

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International Rivers (blog)

The Global CDM Hydro Hall of Shame
International Rivers (blog)
Dapein I Dam is trying to seeking carbon credits. (Photo: US Campaign for Burma) Below are some of the worst hydropower projects that we've seen in the CDM pipeline since 2008. If all of these projects are issued carbon credits or CERs, and it turned ...

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Qantas announces carbon price fare hike
ABC Online
... next week the trip will cost her another $20 in fuel surcharges and when the carbon price comes into effect in July there'll be another one-way fee of just under $7. Another $27 won't max out her credit card but still she's not a happy traveller.

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BUY OR SELL-Is there still a market for UN carbon permits?
Reuters Africa
Prices for United Nations carbon credits, called certified emissions reductions (CERs), have sunk by more than 60 percent since January last year. In a poll by Reuters last month, carbon analysts cut price estimates for benchmark CERs in the first half ...
New Zealand spot carbon price pushes higher to six-week highReuters UK

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Zee News

'Himachal to be carbon neutral by 2020'
Zee News
The state has signed a pact with the World Bank for harnessing carbon credits to generate carbon revenue amounting to Rs.20 crores for 20 years under "Bio Carbon Projects" in 10 districts of the state. The Rs.365-crore Himachal Pradesh Mid-Himalayan ...
Himachal Pradesh to be the 1st state to become carbon-neutral by 2020: DhumalEconomic Times

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International Rivers

World Bank sees carbon finance role for years
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Rather than lending or providing grants to projects, the bank's Kyoto funds contract to buy carbon credits generated by the emission reductions achieved by the projects, once they have been verified by a third party auditor. According to the bank, ...
The Global CDM Hydro Hall of ShameInternational Rivers (blog)

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Ghana Business News

World Bank-developed soil carbon methodology gets international approval
Ghana Business News
A new World Bank-developed methodology to encourage smallholder farmers in Kenya and potentially worldwide to adopt improved farming techniques, boost productivity, increase their resilience to climate change, and earn carbon credits, has been given ...

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Location key to calculating biofuel carbon footprint
environmentalresearchweb
"If these power exports cause carbon-intensive power plants such as coal-fired plants to ramp down in the long term, the carbon credit assigned to ethanol production is large," said Scown. "Conversely, it is possible that biorefinery-power exports will ...

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Location key to calculating biofuel carbon footprint
environmentalresearchweb
"If these power exports cause carbon-intensive power plants such as coal-fired plants to ramp down in the long term, the carbon credit assigned to ethanol production is large," said Scown. "Conversely, it is possible that biorefinery-power exports will ...

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Himachal Pradesh to be the 1st state to become carbon-neutral by 2020: Dhumal
Economic Times
Listing the initiatives taken for betterment of environment, he said the state government has signed an agreement with World Bank for harnessing carbon credits to generate revenue amounting to Rs 20 crores for 20 years under "Bio--Carbon Projects " in ...

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Flannery says Aust should be concerned about PNG's record log exports
Radio Australia
GARRETT: Under former Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, PNG took on the leadership of a group of developing nations working towards the use of carbon credits as a mechanism for protecting their rainforest. Climate Commissioner, Tim Flannery, ...

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Uh-Oh! Government Motors Buys Carbon Offsets!
CleanTechnica
No, actually, the money generated by the sale of the carbon credits will go directly to buy clean energy. (That is how carbon credits in cap & trade plans work; polluters pay for the switch to cleaner energy so you don't have to.

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