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Fortum buys emissions credits from Russia’s TGC-1

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Reuters: Finnish utility Fortum (FUM1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) has signed a deal to buy more than 5 million carbon dioxide (CO2) credits from Russian producer TGC-1 (TGKA.MM: Quote, Profile, Research), Fortum said on Wednesday. The market value of the credits — to be created under the Protocol’s Joint Implementation (JI) scheme — is about 70 million euros ($103 million), making it the largest such deal in Russia, Fortum said in a statement. Fortum said …

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Canada: Carbon tax focus of British Columbia budget

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Globe and Mail: The B.C. government introduced North America’s first full-fledged carbon tax yesterday, an attempt to engineer a social movement aimed at getting British Columbians to cut their greenhouse- emissions. The new tax will be tempered with matching income-tax cuts plus what is likely the province’s largest-ever dividend to taxpayers. We promised you green and today we delivered green, said Finance Minister Carole Taylor, who presented the changes as a way of …

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Lawmakers Gather In Brazil To Discuss Climate Change

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Reuters: Lawmakers from the world’s major industrial nations and five emerging economies gather in Brazil from Wednesday to discuss a global change treaty currently under consideration. This will be the first gathering of legislators from wealthy and developing countries to help shape the post Protocol agreement, World Bank Vice President for Latin America, Pamela Cox, told Reuters. Legislators are more than just another voice, Cox said. In many countries they are the …

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Investors yet to spot McCain’s U.S. carbon dividend

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Reuters: John McCain’s emergence as the Republican front-runner in the U.S. presidential election has sown the seed of a carbon dividend which investors have yet to appreciate, Simon Webber, the manager of the Schroder ISF Global Change Equity fund, said on Wednesday. Webber told a media briefing in Hong Kong that all three senators remaining in the race for White House - McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - had similar policies on change and favoured an absolute …

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Actualités Air: Des choux pour surveiller les rejets de dioxines et furanes d’une UIOM

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Des choux pour surveiller les rejets de dioxines et furanes d?une UIOM. Des choux vont en effet servir à surveiller les rejets en dioxines et furanes d?une unité de valorisation énergétique des ordures ménagères (UIOM) située à Vert-Le-Grand, dans le département de l’Essonne.

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Iberdrola Net Rises 75% After Buying Scottish Power

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Bloomberg: Iberdrola SA, Spain’s second-largest utility, reported fourth-quarter profit rose 75 percent because of last year’s purchase of Scottish Plc and said savings from the acquisition will be more than forecast. Net income climbed to 741 million euros ($1.09 billion) from 424 million euros in the year-earlier period, the Bilbao, Spain- based utility said today in a filing. Full-year profit fell 38 percent at the company’s renewable- unit, the world’s largest owner of …

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UK Chief Scientist Sees Role For GMO Crops

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Reuters: Britain’s chief scientist said on Tuesday genetically modified crops should not be shunned as sought to respond to rising food demand and change threatened production. It seems to me to be insanity to throw away potential solutions of scientific problems and to practical problems that the (farming) industry have, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, John Beddington, said. Beddington told the National Farmers Union’s annual conference …

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GM Cotton Acreage To Touch 80 Percent In India

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Reuters: India is likely to grow genetically modified (GM) cotton on 80 percent of its total cultivated area under the fibre in the next 2-3 years, a global research body said on Monday. The country, the world’s second-biggest cotton producer, hopes to produce a record output of 31 million bales (1 bale = 170 kg) in the crop year to September as farmers plant more transgenic seeds. Indian farmers, who grow cotton on an average 9.06 million hectares, produced 28 million bales last …

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Actualités Ecologie: Marais Poitevin, Jean-Louis Borloo veut un parc naturel régional solide

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Marais Poitevin, Jean-Louis Borloo veut un parc naturel régional solide. Après le parc naturel de Camargue, Jean-Louis Borloo annonce vouloir « sauver » le marais Poitevin. Or, le projet de charte du Parc naturel régional du marais Poitevin qui a été transmis présente une extrême fragilité juridique …

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Environmentalist laments rate of deforestation in Nigeria

Mercredi, février 20th, 2008

Tide: Chief James Odebiyi, a former National President of Forestry Association of Nigeria (FAN), in Lagos disclosed that more than 400,000 hectares of Nigeria’s were being depleted annually. Odebiyi told our correspondent that of the depleted , only 36,000 hectars had been replanted. The rate of deforestation across the country today is quite disturbing when compared with the slow pace of replaning such areas. Our resources have been unduly depleted for …

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