Mon, 8 March 2010
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Environment Policy Research Centre has released a report on emissions trading schemes, claiming that they can be effective in reducing emissions without having a significant economic impact.
The finding was based on an analysis of current emissions trading schemes (ETSs) in the European Union (EU), as well as cap and trade systems for other types of emissions that are already in place in the US.
“The European experience confirms that cap and trade systems can be constructed, that markets emerge to facilitate trading, that emissions are reduced efficiently, and that the effects on affected industries are less than predicted,” said Denny Ellerman, the study’s lead author and senior lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management.
The study found that the most controversial aspect of the EU’s…
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Fri, 19 February 2010
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer has announced that he will resign from him position to join the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability.
Fri, 5 February 2010
The Department of Climate Change has said that analysis of the Opposition’s climate change policy has confirmed that it will not achieve a 5 per cent target by 2020.
Thu, 4 February 2010
The Coalition’s new climate change policy has received a lukewarm response from clean energy industry bodies.
Wed, 3 February 2010
Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott has released the Coalition's climate change policy to rival the Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
Wed, 20 January 2010
The emerging carbon economy is complicated; unscrupulous traders with phony schemes are taking advantage of a confused marketplace and a lack of education among buyers.
