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Qantas announces carbon price fare hike – ABC Online

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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

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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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‘Himachal to be carbon neutral by 2020′ – Zee News

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'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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World Bank sees carbon finance role for years – BusinessWorld Online Edition

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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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World Bank-developed soil carbon methodology gets international approval – Ghana Business News

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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 ...


Location key to calculating biofuel carbon footprint – environmentalresearchweb

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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 ...


Location key to calculating biofuel carbon footprint – environmentalresearchweb

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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 ...


Himachal Pradesh to be the 1st state to become carbon-neutral by 2020: Dhumal – Economic Times

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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

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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

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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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