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Video: Q&A with Benedikt von Butler, Citigroup
Benedikt von Butler of Citigroup discusses how market participants in the central and eastern European markets can ensure they are fully prepared for the risk of new climate change legislation and manage their carbon risk accordingly
Ex-UNFCCC chief: no legally binding agreement at Cop16
Yvo De Boer, previous executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) says that there will be no legally binding agreement drawn out at COP16
UK businesses relieved over CRC’s dumping of carbon trade
Government plans to dump the cap-and-trade element of the UK Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will ease risks for participating companies
Relations with Beijing to impact Taiwan emissions trading plans
Taiwan's plans for a cap-and-trade carbon trading system have potential but relations with China will impact its progress, according to analysts
China’s CDM trade threatened by uncertain carbon legislation
Investment in CDM carbon credits in China may slow because of the prolonged uncertainty over global climate change legislation, analysts say
Q&A: Shell Gas Direct’s Mike Hogg
Turning up the heat
Q&A: Wayne Mitchell, head of corporate sales, npower
Model behaviour
Cautious outlook from oil experts at industry event
A sharp increase in oil demand from non-OECD countries will compensate for peaking demand in OECD area
Lynda Clemmons: weather derivatives will benefit from regulation changes
The former Enron derivatives pioneer believes forcing trades on exchanges will benefit niche players and smaller companies
Carbon trading to be highly regulated under Senate energy bill
US senators have published a climate change bill establishing a cap-and-trade system for power plants and industrials that permits only exchange-traded and cleared transactions.
Oil majors go solo with emissions campaign
BP and ConocoPhillips will not renew their respective memberships of the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), announcing separate plans to engage policymakers as individual organisations.
Obama admits Senate may need to drop carbon trading
US President Barack Obama has acknowledged the potential need to strip cap and trade out of US energy legislation currently being re-drafted in the US Senate in order to pass the bill.
Markey: Climate bill by end of 2010
President Barack Obama will have a new clean energy bill to sign by the end of the year, according to US congressman Edward Markey.
Carbon regulation block unlikely to get past President
A congressional move to prevent US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of carbon emissions is unlikely to get past President Barack Obama, but the bipartisan protest indicates legislators want extra time to formulate their own climate change…
US cap-and-trade offsets clouded by uncertainty
As US firms await climate change legislation, it looks inevitable that heavy emitters will need to invest in carbon offset projects – some of them overseas – in order to meet targets. However, the outlook for offsets is clouded by regulatory uncertainty…
Carbon experts forecast global trading agreement by mid-2011
The outlook for the COP-15 in Copenhagen this year has been buoyed by reduction target pledges by the US and China, despite almost unanimous agreement from experts that a legally binding treaty is unlikely to be concretised. Katie Holliday and Pauline…
Environmental exploitation
Recessions usually spell bad news for the environment. Promises of investment in clean energy and sustainable technology wither away as mediocre returns drive investors to count the cost of easing their conscience. But as pension funds and governments…
Senate starts deliberations on cap-and-trade bill
Senate committee hearings began yesterday on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, co-authored by senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer.
