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27 Jan 12 FACTBOX: EU discussions to support carbon prices
With European carbon prices too low to prod the private sector to invest in clean technology, EU lawmakers are examining different ways to support CO2 permit prices in the world’s biggest carbon market.
( PointCarbon )
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27 Jan 12 CER issuance heads for 31-week low
Project developers have asked the U.N. to issue 2.1 million Certified Emission Reduction (CERs) next week, which would mark the lowest weekly issuance since the end of June last year.
( PointCarbon )
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27 Jan 12 EUAs gain 5.4 pct, hold above 8 euros
EU carbon prices rose for the fourth consecutive day on Friday, climbing 5.4 percent as an expected cold weather front buoyed power and gas prices.
( PointCarbon )
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27 Jan 12 Carbon Market Europe 27 January
This week´s issue reveals how Denmark poured cold water on growing calls to withdraw hundreds of millions of permits from the EU carbon market, plus a guest commentary from E3G´s Sanjeev Kumar dismissing the case against setting aside the permits.
( PointCarbon )
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18 Jan 12 Norway pledges $300 mln/yr to green world’s power
Norway will spend NOK 1.8 billion ($300 million) a year to devise ways to help some of the world’s poorest people get better access to energy and to develop a new market-based system to limit emissions from global energy production, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday.
( PointCarbon )
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12 Jan 12 Forest CO2 trade could cut Indonesia GHGs 26 pct: report
Indonesia, one of the world’s biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions because of deforestation, could avoid emitting 211 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year through market-based incentives not to cut down trees, a report said Thursday.
( PointCarbon )
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28 Dec 11 Japan slashes 2012 bilateral CO2 deal budget by 30 pct
Japan will next year spend nearly a third less on developing bilateral CO2 offset schemes with other nations as the government seeks to cut budgets to help the country recover from last March’s earthquake and tsunami.
( PointCarbon )
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