Connecticut has become the fifth US state to set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions, after its senate on Monday unanimously approved a bill requiring a state-wide emission cut to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80
Spanish power sector emissions over the first four months of 2008 fell to around 28.3 million tonnes carbon dioxide, a 3.3 per cent drop compared to the same period last year, according to green group WWF.
The price for most-active European CO2 allowances scaled a two-week peak on Tuesday, thanks largely to surging front-month Brent crude oil prices, traders said.
Greece has received a warning from the European commission for failing to provide adequate monitoring of greenhouse gases emissions which is needed to comply with UN regulations laid out under the Kyoto protocol, a commission spokesperson confirmed today.
The Lieberman-Warner bill could reduce new natural gas drilling in the US by more than 30 per cent and shrink gas production by as much as 12 per cent by 2030, according to a study commissioned by the American Petroleum
Expectations of a rise in international carbon credit prices may persuade sellers to renegotiate contracts with utilities, funds and banks, said buyers at a conference Tuesday.
A lack of auditors of carbon credits from greenhouse gas reduction projects through the Kyoto protocol will continue until late this year or early 2009, an industry insider told a conference on Tuesday.
Sudanese officials and representatives of donor nations opened a major conference in Norway on 5 May, amid warnings that the provisions of a three-year-old peace accord had fallen dangerously behind schedule.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have agreed to work together to slash the CO2 emissions caused by members of the postal sector.Under the agreement signed in Berne last week by Achim Steiner, Executive
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A proposal by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to waive half of the renewable fuel standard for ethanol has raised the ire of some ethanol proponents, who say it could add more than a dollar per gallon
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday hailed his country's new weapon against the threat of "terrorism" from its Middle East neighbors -- the electric car.Outlining Israel's development priorities in an address to foreign journalists to mark this week's 60th anniversary
Eterna Oil & Gas Plc has recorded a turnover of N4.91 billion for the financial year ended December 31, 2007, representing an upsurge of 39.9 per cent from N3.5 billion in the corresponding period of 2006.
LARGE municipalities, including the City of Johannesburg, could not say yesterday how much energy they had saved since the start of Eskom's scheduled load shedding.
Indications are beginning to manifest that there is a crisis rocking the contract of the street light project awarded by the Nasarawa state government nine months ago, as 24 hours to the date slated by the state government for the
ESKOM's application to lift electricity tariff s 60% has drawn criticism from nearly all fronts, but few seem to have noticed that steel prices in SA have soared 65% in six months .
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) last week bared its fangs for the first time when it put on trial the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Limited (AEDCL) over alleged negligence following the electrocution of a six-year old child, Aisha Fadayi.
THE Gauteng provincial government wanted to urgently fast-track the implementation of three regional electricity distributors as part of a strategy to increase energy capacity in the province, Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said yesterday.
