A UN expert panel has recommended the clean development mechanism (CDM) executive board approve a methodology that seeks to claim carbon credits for the production of biodiesel from plant oil.

La evidencia científica es hoy contundente: El calenamiento global presenta reisgos globales serios y, en consecuencia, la repuesta debe ser rápida y eficiente.

Para nadie es un misterio que el calentamiento global, debido a las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) realizadas por el hombre..

German environmental services firm 3C and its Swiss peer Factor will merge into Factor 3C from 2008 to create what they said on Monday would be continental Europe's biggest carbon asset management firm.

Carbon asset management company 3C Holding and carbon credit project developer Factor Consulting + Management announced today they will merge to form Factor3C.

Developers of emission reduction projects in Latin America are beginning to move away from the UN regulated market and are eyeing voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) as a way to avoid complex project approval processes on the...

Hamburg, Germany-based Aquila Capital Concepts, a $1.8 billion hedge fund shop, last month launched a hedge fund focused on the shipping sector and is readying another fund focused on trading carbon emissions for November.

Failure by host countries to speed up the project approval process is holding back the Kyoto protocol’s joint implementation (JI) mechanism and causing investors to look elsewhere for carbon credits, market sources have warned.

US federal cap-and-trade plans for greenhouse gases currently being debated in Congress must include regulations for the use of offset credits, the US Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) said today in a policy paper.

The price of carbon allowances for the second phase of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme, which runs from 2008 to 2012, has fallen to less than €20 from a late-May peak of €25.