New top climate change negotiator appointed
Source: AFP - The government Tuesday announced the appointment of a new chief negotiator and ambassador for climate change whose mandate will be to try implement agreements made at the talks in Copenhagen.
Carbon credit prices shoot up after probe constricts supply
Source: Business Standard - Prices of carbon credit certificates on the European climate exchange have risen after the regulator disallowed credits from greenhouse gas HFC-23 from a number of projects. Credits from such projects account for around 10 per cent of total carbon emission certificates (CERs).
UK launches investor forum to spur green finance
Source: Reuters - The British government launched an initiative on Tuesday to unlock new investment in low-carbon technologies and make London a global hub for green finance.
CDM project vital to healthy environment, says Afridi
Source: Daily Times - Vast resources are required to revive economic system, reconstruction of affected areas and rehabilitation of victims due to heavy floods in country and our industrialists could get attractive foreign exchange through carbon credits by establishing industrial units under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) programme, said Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi.
South Africa: Minister Calls for a Return to Gas Energy
Source: BuaNews (Tshwane) - South Africa's heavy reliance on fossil fuel as primary energy may pose a threat to the country's long term "green" economic growth path, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
UK introduces Google Earth maps showing temperature rises
Source: Engineering News - The UK government has produced an interactive Google Earth map, which highlighted the impacts that a 4 ºC average temperature increase would have on different regions of the world.
CO2 Target Debate Is Irrelevant, Former UN Climate Chief Says
Source: Bloomberg - The greenhouse-gas targets pledged by nations after the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen in December wont change much before 2020 so theres little point debating them, the man who stewarded the summit said.