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Firms eye Nigeria, others in African clean energy – Nigeria Daily Independent

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Firms eye Nigeria, others in African clean energy
Nigeria Daily Independent
Featuring a long-term revenue potential in the form of payments for carbon credits, the model will help to help alleviate poverty among two billion people in Africa, India and the developing world. Nuru Energy, which operates in East Africa and India, ...


Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 million UN CO2 credits – eco-business.com

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Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 million UN CO2 credits
eco-business.com
By : Reuters The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation Carbon Fund (NeCF) has closed deals to buy 4.6 million UN-backed carbon credits from 10 clean energy projects in India and southeast Asia, it said on Tuesday. “We are closing a large number of ...
Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 mln UN CO2 creditsReuters Africa

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Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 mln UN CO2 credits – Reuters Africa

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Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 mln UN CO2 credits
Reuters Africa
LONDON Aug 16 (Reuters) - The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation Carbon Fund (NeCF) has closed deals to buy 4.6 million UN-backed carbon credits from 10 clean energy projects in India and southeast Asia, it said on Tuesday. ...
Nordic carbon fund buys 4.6 million U.N. CO2 creditsReuters

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Truth about clean energy packages: size does matter – Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald

Truth about clean energy packages: size does matter
Sydney Morning Herald
It more than doubles our national emissions reduction effort, making us less reliant on buying carbon credits offshore. If its analysis is valid, ClimateWorks figures also go some way to solving that riddle: would the climate be safer had the Greens ...
On the road to a carbon reduction plan that worksThe Age

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Low-carbon assets hurt as economic outlook sinks – Reuters Africa

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Low-carbon assets hurt as economic outlook sinks
Reuters Africa
Clean energy stocks have consistently under-performed wider market indices in the past month and year, while carbon credits are one of the worst performing commodities. Under-performing stocks is a long-running theme: European and US solar ...

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Dirty side of a clean energy future – Stock and Land

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Green Left Weekly

Dirty side of a clean energy future
Stock and Land
But evidence is emerging of suspect and fraudulent projects, especially in developing countries, getting past both the United Nations and the European Union, which respectively run the world's biggest carbon credit and emissions trading schemes. ...
Carbon tax: Emissions trading - the reality.Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Green reasons to oppose Australia's carbon priceGreen Left Weekly

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Environmental enslavement for middle-class comforts – ABC Online

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ABC Online

Environmental enslavement for middle-class comforts
ABC Online
A key plank of the tax plan is to purchase carbon credit offsets from other countries. That is, Gillard's dream of a 5 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 will be achieved, not by trimming those emissions in Australia itself, ...
Carbon tax: Emissions trading - the reality.Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Green reasons to oppose Australia's carbon priceGreen Left Weekly
Dirty side of a clean energy futureLand

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Pacific countries may benefit from Australian carbon scheme – Radio Australia

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Pacific countries may benefit from Australian carbon scheme
Radio Australia
Prime Minister Gillard's 'Clean Energy Plan' will cut Australia's carbon pollution by 160 million tonnes a year by 2020. Up to half of the carbon credits that polluting industries buy can come from overseas, and that means Pacific Island countries have ...
Pacific benefit in carbon plan, says GreenpeaceRadio Australia News

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Pacific could engage Australian carbon plan: Greenpeace – Australia Network News

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Pacific could engage Australian carbon plan: Greenpeace
Australia Network News
Up to half the carbon credits needed by big companies to meet Ms Gillard's Clean Energy Plan, which was announced on Sunday, can come from overseas. Greenpeace says Papua New Guinea, in particular, with its big logging industry, has much to gain, ...


Pacific could engage Australian carbon plan: Greenpeace – Radio Australia News

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Pacific could engage Australian carbon plan: Greenpeace
Radio Australia News
Up to half the carbon credits needed by big companies to meet Ms Gillard's Clean Energy Plan, which was announced on Sunday, can come from overseas. Greenpeace says Papua New Guinea, in particular, with its big logging industry, has much to gain, ...

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