LONDON (Reuters) - The Voluntary Carbon Standard registry system is now able to transfer carbon emission offsets across different registries, the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association said on Monday. The VCS multiple registry was launched in March but the transfer process was delayed due to technical reasons. Carbon offsetting is a way for companies or individuals to voluntarily compensate for unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions by funding cuts in carbon dioxide elsewhere. ... Read More

At a recent biomass conference in San Francisco, one institutional investor with capital exposure to carbon transactions lamented the “crowds of unemployed bankers” roaming around looking to create carbon “deals” and launch funds based on credits that have a tenuous value. “Even the people trading carbon since it’s been around don’t know what they’re doing,” he said. “It’s a lot of risk to take in.” ... Read More

Please Note: Comments in this article are those expressed by the writer and not those of ECO2 Forests Inc. If you haven't been following the debate surrounding capping and trading emissions, you're missing out. Not only does it have implications for how our nation — and the world — produces energy; it has the potential to offer a myriad of opportunities for well-informed investors. You see, California has been asking for permission to regulate greenhouse gas... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a copy of a long-suppressed report by officials in the George W. Bush administration concluding that, based on the science, the government should begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions because global warming posed serious risks to the country. The report, technically known as an "endangerment finding," was prepared in 2007 but the Bush White House refused to make it public because the administration opposed new... Read More

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia outlined plans to trade renewable energy certificates from next month and carbon credits from early 2010, two major steps toward implementing the government's climate change agenda. Market operator ASX Ltd said on Wednesday futures and options contracts in renewable energy certificates (RECs) would start on November 24, with Certified Emission Reduction (CER) contracts to start trading in the first quarter of next year. In Australia, each REC... Read More

China plans to include a pilot emissions trading system in its five-year plan for economic development from 2010-15, although it is unclear whether carbon dioxide would be covered. The Environment Ministry yesterday stated that it will "carry out trial work on trading emission and pollution permits", according to the Reuters news agency. However, ministry officials declined to say how large the trial would be, or whether it would incorporate CO2 trading. China has... Read More

China pledged yesterday to slow the growth of its emissions despite the rapid expansion of its economy. President Hu Jintao told nearly 100 leaders at a UN summit on climate change that China would cut carbon dioxide emissions by a notable margin by 2020. “We have taken and will continue to take determined and practical steps to tackle this challenge,” he said. China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is overwhelmingly dependent on coal. Mr Hu said... Read More

ECO2 Forests Inc. has debuted as a publicly traded company, with its stock gaining 300 percent in trading Tuesday. The Sacramento-based company (Pink Sheets: ECOF.PK) is an international sustainable forestry company focused on reforestation and carbon sequestration projects, and offers carbon credits on an international level. The company is “committed to delivering returns to the benefit of our shareholders and positive environmental outcomes with particular focus on... Read More

KEVIN Rudd will be asked to dramatically lift Australia's reserves of natural forests and grasslands as part of its climate change solution in a bid to ease emissions cuts on industry as part of the transition to a low-carbon economy.  The Prime Minister's climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, yesterday urged Australia to lift its focus on retaining natural forests and grasslands in northern Australia as part of its climate change response. The Australian understands... Read More

WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. The conflict in southern Sudan, which has killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, is partly a result of drought in Darfur. Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed... Read More