Several green organizations said the U.N. rules, or methodology, applied to the 4,000 MW supercritical plant owned by Reliance Power were flawed and that the project was viable without the sweeteners of tradable carbon credits called certified emissions reductions (CERs). The power station, in Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, is the second Reliance Power project to be formally registered by the United Nations under its Clean Development Mechanism. Read More

Cap and trade may be a near impossibility on the national level at this point (thanks, dead climate bill!), but California is still pushing ahead with a system that will require major polluters to cut down on carbon emissions, but will give them the option to trade carbon credits on a newly introduced market. The system, which is set to go into place in 2012, will be the first carbon trading program in the U.S. Read More

The failure to set emission cuts at last year’s climate talks in Copenhagen added $1 trillion to the price tag of preventing dangerous increases in temperatures, the International Energy Agency estimated. Read More

This report is intended to contribute to the debate about climate change and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Importantly many of the issues addressed in this paper are already adopted by ECO2 Forests within our E4 Philosophy Read More

Big business will head the discussion on how to implement a carbon tax in Australia; a situation causing concern in some sectors. Read More

LABOR has agreed to create a "climate change committee" of MPs as part of a deal to secure the support of the Greens in the next parliament, Greens leader Bob Brown has said. Read More

New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton. Read More

JULIA Gillard is to create a Citizens Assembly to forge a national consensus on action on climate change and a commission of experts to help inform its deliberations. Read More

National GEC President, Ralph Avallone was invited by Senator Kerry to attend the press conference on May 12, 2010 where Senator Kerry and Senator Lieberman presented the American Power Act to the Senate. Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a final rule on Thursday for regulating major emitters of greenhouse gases, like coal-fired power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Read More