Europe is to ban a highly lucrative trade in polluting rights obtained by European-based companies under a UN scheme to favour environmentally-friendly industrial investment in the likes of China or India.
Environment
Jan 21, 2011
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Hackers stole two million tonnes of polluting rights in a five-day raid this week on the European Union's carbon emissions trading system, an EU source said on Thursday.
Internet
Jan 20, 2011
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Australian researchers have suggested that nations should abandon the concept of carbon emissions trading in favor of a carbon swap bank that might lead to genuine reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide greenhouse gas ...
Environment
Jan 6, 2011
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The head of the world's biggest airline association, IATA, berated the oil industry and governments on Friday for investing "peanuts" in cleaner biofuels.
Environment
Sep 17, 2010
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So-called "cap and trade" legislation has often been portrayed as a regressive policy -- one that would hit poor people the hardest. A new MIT study concluded that this is not the case.
Economics & Business
Aug 4, 2010
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Organised crime gangs are using carbon emissions trading schemes as fronts for money-laundering, experts warned Friday.
Environment
Jul 16, 2010
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Online fraudsters have carried out a "widepread" cyber attack on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU commission said Thursday, promising a security review.
Internet
Feb 4, 2010
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(AP) -- Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2009
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China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday.
Environment
Nov 14, 2009
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EU emissions trading has put a price on something that used to be free - the right to pollute the atmosphere.
Environment
Sep 28, 2009
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