According to Andrew Macintosh, Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy, stopping native forest harvesting would generate enough carbon credits during the period 2013-2020 to meet 45 per cent of Australia’s abatement task. Read More

NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh's efforts in fighting climate change have been rewarded with the UN registering its multi-crore carbon trading scheme that involves providing green cover to barren 4,000 hectares in the state. Read More

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

Paulownia tomentosa has marvelous press on the Internet. Several Australian and United States companies make claims of extraordinary growth, unbelievable wood values, magnificent beauty. Paulownia, they write, can shade an area in record time, resist insects, feed livestock, and improve the soil component. Look at this quick review, Introduction To Royal Paulownia. Read More

THE Gillard government's renewable energy scheme will saddle consumers with more than $1 billion in extra electricity costs this year, and uncertainty created by its failure to implement a carbon pricing regime is forcing power bills higher than they would otherwise be. Research to be released today by the Australian Industry Group finds that a "well-designed" carbon price would ease some of the pressure on energy prices, which are forecast to rise over the next decade. 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

BOULDER, CO and QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, Dec 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ECO2 Forests Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ECOF), a sustainable forestry company, has entered into an Agreement for the establishment of joint venture projects in Europe. In conjunction with ECO PLUS Limited, ECO2 Forests plans to commence projects in Europe. Initially targeting projects in Turkey, the Joint Venture is planned to be expanded to include Bulgaria. Read More

BOULDER, CO and QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, Dec 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ECO2 Forests, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ECOF), a sustainable forestry company, is proud to announce the following corporate update regarding current projects. Current projects are located in the Pacific Nation of Vanuatu, off Australia and in Northern Nevada. Both locations represent a total of 34,000 total acres -- 20,000 of which are targeted for planting. 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