A local man is taking green living to the roof.Andrew Koenisberg recently installed at his 3 Smith St. home a 5 kilowatt-hour solar powered energy system, one of the largest of its kind and a first among Westborough residents.When Koenisberger's
The Kyoto protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM) can help sweeten investment in South Africa to assuage its power crisis, though market observers say changes in government policy are also necessary to spawn projects that can both boost electricity output and
European carbon prices nudged higher in line with the rest of the key commodities in the energy complex, with record high oil prices leading the rally.
Australia's National Forestry Industry Association (Nafi) Friday urged the government to include the forest sector in the country's emerging emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Carbon Conscious, an Australian developer of carbon emission reduction projects, has raised AUS$7.25 million ($8.8 million) through an initial public offer (IPO) and will list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) next week, it announced Friday.
The creation of a carbon market between the three North American countries to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets appeals to Canada, according to a leading official in the country's environment ministry.
The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) has expressed support for the Tokyo metropolitan government's plan to introduce a cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases in fiscal year 2010, which starts in April 2011.
Australian authorities are considering the prospect of their planned emissions trading scheme (ETS) being able to join with that of New Zealand in the years after its proposed launch in 2010.
India's cabinet of ministers on Friday agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding with Denmark to cooperate on developing clean development mechanism projects (CDM), according to the Indian government's news portal.
A bill making its way through the US Congress that aims to introduce a federal cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions may now allow carbon credits from developing countries, a former Senate legislative advisor told a conference on Friday.
Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee today presented a wide-ranging plan for establishing US energy independence, which he said was necessary to address climate change, gas prices and national security.
Global power company AES bought a landfill gas project in El Salvador that could generate an average of 400,000 certified emissions reductions (CERs) per year over a 20-year period, it announced Friday.
The Minnesota state legislature passed a bill Friday that would require two state agencies to report on progress toward meeting the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 80 per cent by 2050.
The EU commission would oppose a proposal to kickstart the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) by using a 'double-credit' incentive payout, according to the commission's head of emissions trading.
European carbon prices climbed Friday amid bullish energy prices, although the market focused on the 2012 CER contract following the release of UN data that revised down its previous forecast for the supply of credits over the next five years.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday visited Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in what is his first visit to the Niger Delta region since he was sworn in as president of the federal republic.
THE expected bidding war for British Energy failed to materialise last night after just one solo bid was believed to have been lodged for the nuclear power giant.
