Emissions trading: ‘Permanence of carbon credits, human rights protection needs focus at COP27’

Jonathan Crook, policy officer at Carbon Market Watch, on carbon market negotiations in the first week of COP27

India’s evolving carbon market: Eye on policies for uniform emissions trading, Net Zero

Carbon markets will play a key role in India’s drive towards decarbonisation

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Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters Under Emissions Trading Schemes

Paying the Carbon Price analyses the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) 

A bad bargain

If the atmosphere is a common resource shared by everyone then should the South let itself be bullied into accepting a US diktat on emission …

United effort

Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high and Earth is warming faster than ever: Report

Humanity has caused surface temperatures to warm by 1.14°C since the late 1800s; this warming is increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.…

Geopolitical tensions can hit sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, warns IMF

Region could see 4% GDP contraction over 10 years

Hyundai: Stringent norms?

As per the auto fuel policy released this year, vehicles running in cities must meet Euro iii emission norms, apparently very stringent, by April …

Going cheap

Australia is about to set up an emissions trading exchange

Stuck with symbolism

Do the Indian leaders know just what they are putting their signatures to?

Taking emissions into account

Institutional investors press companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions

Trade vs environment

Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region …

Carbon shopping

About US $100 million worth of global greenhouse gas emissions have been traded since 1996

Automated eyewash

Final report of the Mashelkar committee on auto fuel policy a complete letdown

Big business

Methane matters

But surely not more then carbon dioxide?

Japan imposes carbon tax

Soiled option?

US scientists evolve way to sequester carbon dioxide in soil

The rising

Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution

Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …

Pongamia power enables Adilabad villagers to export carbon credits to Germany

When Gond tribals of Chalpadi village in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh agreed this April to export 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in …

Push for market-based solutions to address climate change

Countries and businesses, under the aegis of Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, signal support for carbon pricing ahead of New York climate meet

Trading in emissions

The UK could earn up to US $1 billion in the sale of surplus emissions

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