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CarbonFix Standard merges with Gold Standard . New quality label for forest climate projects. CO2OL is pioneer in the development of high-quality climate protection projects.

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The UK government takes strong steps to ensure the future of green energy technologies, starting with the first ever carbon dioxide baseline price – making carbon credit investment opportunities a feasible financial move.

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A new website on the Internet, specifically for businesses and land owners, has been launched by a specialist Carbon Management Consulting company ECO Carbon Offset. . ECO covers every aspect of becoming Carbon Neutral, including Carbon Credits

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The reduced cap on emissions which the Energy Efficiency Directive will bring about will reduce the supply of European Union Allowances, also known as carbon credits or carbon offsets.

This news comes soon after Australia moved from a fixed carbon tax to the world’s second-largest market scheme in order to cut emissions in a bid to tackle climate change.

According to market analysts quoted in the New York Times News Service in recent weeks, carbon trading is very much still the hot topic.

The world of green investments is growing ever larger by the day, as investors look to the massive profit potential of these environmental and ethical investments.

China responds to efforts to bar HFC-23 carbon credits by threatening to release vast amounts of the potent industrial chemical into the atmosphere unless other nations pay what amounts to a climate ransom.

UK based asset management company Carbon Capital Asset Management Plc has chosen Singapore for its global headquarters as its key geographical location in the Asia Pacific and World markets make it the no 1 location.

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Carbon credits are the financial instruments representing one metric ton of carbon pollution.

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The Africasia Funds are a series of boutique closed ended funds that invest in agricultural, renewable energy plantations and forestry businesses.

Leading project management company WCO2 launches in Vienna.

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South Pole Carbon announced that they have been named Best Project Developer of Environmental Finance Magazine's Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Survey 2011.

Research carried out by Aberystwyth University in conjunction with Compton Group, has resulted in a discovery which could lead to an improvement in milk and meat production plus a significant reduction in methane emissions from cattle and sheep.

The UK government set out incentives intended to spur £4.5 billion of investment into renewable heating systems by 2020.

Environmentalists have voiced concern over an EPA proposal which they believe will negatively affect the quality of the GHG emissions information being collected by the government.

Iberdrola SA bid €2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) to buy out minority investors who lost money when it took its Renovables unit public in 2007.

The introduction of a carbon price in Australia will help provide the electricity industry with the certainty it requires to boost investment according to Julia Gillard.

The aviation industry is to be allocated 212.9 million allowances under the EU’s emissions trading scheme next year, but demand for permits may cost the sector over $1 billion says one analyst.

Top hedge funds have delivered a surprised in the fourth quarter by swapping out leading Wall Street financial giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc with battered bailout survivor Citigroup Inc.

European Commission gives Austrian and Polish emission registries the go-ahead to reopen on 07 March.

The U.S.’s Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it has extended the deadline for thousands of business to report their greenhouse gas emissions.

In his third climate update, Australia’s climate change advisor, Ross Garnaut says he anticipates that global emissions will still double between 2005 and 2003 without significant climate change mitigation measures.

Wagner Wind Energy and Independence Wind LLC have been offered a conditional commitment for the loan guarantee for a wind farm planned near Roxbury, Maine.

South Korea to start carbon trading from 2015 according to local media sources quoting senior government officials, amid strong opposition from industry.

A tougher greenhouse gas emissions cutting target for the EU would create more jobs and boost economic growth by 2020, rather than impact it negatively as many EU governments fear according to a recently released study.

The UN’s Environment Program says that countries could kick-start a “green economy” by redirecting $1.3 billion a year from industries which over use resources.

The European Union is considering cutting carbon emissions 25% by 2020 and withholding permits for the next phase of its cap-and-trade program to slow excess supply and encourage new technologies.

The new chairman of the Clean Development Mechanism is optimistic that by using regulators more effectively the world’s second largest carbon market will be ready to handle the increase for new credits this year.

The world’s largest producer of thin-film photovoltaic panels announces a major deal with Edison International for its Nevada solar plant.

The Australian government estimates that carbon emissions will climb by 24% between 2000 and 2020 without an initiative to ensure that companies pay for burning fossil fuels such as coal.

The U.S. government has identified four zones for offshore wind energy projects in a bid to accelerate the development of renewable energy projects.

In a bid to make solar energy as cheap as fossil fuels by the end of the decade the Department of Energy has announced that it will spend $27 million to reduce the cost of solar power by 75%.

A recent joint report by conservation group WWF and energy consultancy company Ecofys shows that all but 5% of the world’s energy requirements could be met by renewable sources by 2050.

Obama’s clean energy standard received a boost recently when the head of the Senate energy panel announced that he could back the idea of including nuclear power in the fuel mix.

In an attempt to unblock the deadlock on finding a successor to the UN’s Kyoto Protocol for slowing global warming, climate negotiators from almost 200 nations are to meet in Bangkok in April for an extra session.

France recently announced that it is to build its first offshore wind project in a bid to gain ground on its European neighbors in the development of renewable energy.

A United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change official says that the European Union’s upcoming ban on carbon credits linked to some gasses will increase demand for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in Africa.

The U.S. President has set a target for power plants to produce mainly clean electricity by 2035, including power from sources such as clean coal and natural gas.

CME’s Green Exchange LLC recently said it was to launch a post-2012 contract for UN carbon credits at the end of February.

Greece’s Public Power Corporation is to issues a tender to build a 200MW solar farm and PV factory expected to cost $814 million (€600million.)