Policing carbon markets
Carbon markets have emerged in recent decades as one of the most important tools for curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, but they present a number of novel enforcement challenges when compared
Cap And Trade
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Rep. Waxman Predicts Climate Bill Success
A leading US lawmaker behind efforts to tackle global warming predicted on Monday that his climate change bill will advance this week in the House of Representatives, even as Republicans warned it will ruin the ailing US economy.
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Canada Oil Sands Emit More CO2 Than Average - Report
Canada's oil sands emit more carbon dioxide than average crude so developers need a clearer picture of where greenhouse gas regulations are headed to find the best way to tap the giant resource, experts said.
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US House Climate Bill Aims To Minimise Price Rise
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have negotiated a climate change bill that would give industries most of the pollution emission permits they would need, according to documents obtained on Friday.
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US Climate Bill Outlines 15 Pct Sale Of Permits
Fifteen percent of emissions permits would be sold to polluters each year under a climate change bill moving through the US House of Representatives, according to a document circulated on Friday describing the legislation.
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Oil Refiners To Get Break Under US Climate Bill
Oil refiners would be given 2 percent of greenhouse gas emission permits under a proposed climate change bill that Democrats in the US House of Representatives are writing, according to a document describing that legislation.
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House Democrats Retool U.S. Climate Bill
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday said they were working out final details of a climate change bill, as they announced new breaks for industry that they said would also minimize the potential impact on consumers' energy bills. "We have reached agreement on most key matters," said Representative Rick Boucher, who represents the coal-producing state of Virginia.
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U.S. Steelmakers Fear Burden In Climate Rules
U.S. steel companies are not too happy with President Barack Obama these days. Industry executives say that in the last 15 years, they have cut their carbon dioxide emissions by one-third. But now, they think the president's cap-and-trade rules, currently in Congress, would punish them for doing what they feel they have already done -- cut pollution.
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Australian carbon fight warms up
Australia's government introduced carbon trade laws into parliament yesterday. But Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, faces a battle to get them passed into law and warned that he might need an early election if his reforms were blocked.
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House Panel Nears Agreement on Energy and Climate Bill
With a series of compromises on the stickiest issues behind them, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to approve far-reaching legislation on energy and global warming by the end of next week. Where it goes from there remains highly uncertain.
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Carbon Geography Of The United States: John Kemp
Unless advocates of a cap-and-trade emissions scheme can design a credible and well-funded compensation mechanism to compensate the losers (including coal miners, heavy industrial workers, and their communities) carbon control policy risks becoming mired in the same controversy as trade liberalisation.