Tag Archives: cap-and-trade
California Shows The World (Some Of) America Is Serious About Climate Change
Posted on 17. Dec, 2010 by Ross.
The plans for a US-wide cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions might be dead in the water, but California is charging ahead regardless with its plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
Although still playing catch-up with Europe, with the long-established ETS and 2020 emission targets of 20-30% reductions from 1990, Californians aims to return to 1990 levels [...]
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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]
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Australia Dumps Carbon Trading Scheme
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Ross.
In the face of intensified political opposition and a hostile Senate, the Australian government has been forced to backtrack on one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s key election promises: the creation of an Australian emissions trading scheme to help the country stop being one of the world’s most polluting nations.
With the highest emissions per capita [...]
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Meet The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Ross.
UPDATE: The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is now active, and now if the time for strategy. Check out our 4 Business Reasons (and our bonus super-CRC’ret Special Reason!) for immediate CRC action!
The Carbon Reduction Commitment is dead! Long live the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme!
What: you haven’t heard of either of them? (40% of UK businesses [...]
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60% of UK Business Sleepwalking Into Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Ross.
With only six months before the start of the UK’s new carbon reduction cap-and-trade scheme, more than half have done nothing to prepare for their approaching commitments.
According to a survey by RSA, a commercial insurer and energy management firm, more than 40% of UK businesses aren
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Cap and Trade Comes To India Ahead Of USA
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
In a bold move designed to stir up the landscape of international climate change diplomacy, the Indian government has set the foundations for an imminent carbon cap-and-trade scheme to reduce domestic energy consumption by 5% by 2015.
Despite still refusing to set a stringent target for carbon dioxide emissions ahead of the Copenhagen Conference in December, [...]
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Australia’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Climb-Down
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
After failing to secure flagship cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate, the Australian Government is being forced to splinter its’ environmental draft laws in order to get them passed individually.
The government is putting forward part of last week’s defeated bill - a plan for 20% of Australia’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 - [...]
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Kyoto 2.0 Set To Fall At The First Hurdle
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Ross.
With eight months to go before representatives from 170 countries attempt to agree on a follow-up to the Kyoto Climate Protocol at the Copenhagen Climate Convention, the early indications are that insurmountable differences between key players will prevent any dramatic new action to curb global carbon dioxide emissions.
Whilst much has already been made of the [...]
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