emissions trading

Pigs take flight as airlines claim they'll cut emissions by 50%

Posted by jamie — 22 September 2009 at 1:54pm - Comments

Startling news from Willie Walsh of British Airways who is preparing to lift the lid on a deal between aviation bosses to slash their emissions by 50 per cent by 2050. Wow, it seems like magic. Oh wait, it really does seem like magic - it's just some shifty sleight of hand as part of a PR offensive to persuade Copenhagen-bound politicos that airlines really do want to help with climate change.

Article tagged as: aviation, BA, climate change, emissions trading, transport, willie walsh

Conservative proposals for a low carbon economy - Greenpeace reaction and briefing

Last edited 16 January 2009 at 6:04pm
Publication date: 
16 January, 2009

The Conservatives Low Carbon Economy paper published today is focused on three important elements of energy policy, relevant to the politics of the current energy debate. They are:

  1. Energy Security
  2. A policy beyond the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for coal
  3. Kick-starting Renewable Energy

In this briefing we analyse their policies and conclude that, whilst the Tory proposals are not the final word and can be improved, they do put the weakness of the government's position in focus.

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Article tagged as: conservatives, emissions trading, energy, energy security, low-carbon, renewable energy, reports

Eliasch forest review - Greenpeace responds

Last edited 14 October 2008 at 2:26pm
14 October, 2008

Reacting to the government commissioned Eliasch review entitled "Climate Change: Financing Global Forests" Greenpeace head of biodiversity Andy Tait said:

"This report shows a dangerous lack of ambition and vastly underestimates the scale of the action needed to tackle climate change. If Gordon Brown accepts these proposals he will give a green light to companies to use forest protection abroad as a cheap alternative to making the dramatic cuts in the industrial and energy sectors that we need here in the UK.

Article tagged as: climate change, emissions trading, EU, forests

Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
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Greenpeace launches landmark proposal for reducing tropical deforestation at Bali climate talks

Last edited 4 December 2007 at 12:01pm
4 December, 2007

Greenpeace today launched a landmark proposal for reducing, and ultimately stopping, tropical deforestation.

The initiative was launched at a side event of the Bali Climate Conference, featuring the Governors of Papua and Papua Barat, the provinces with the largest intact tropical forests in Indonesia.

Greenpeace believes that finding solutions to ending deforestation must be a key objective of the conference for the following reasons:

Article tagged as: bali, climate change, deforestation, emissions, emissions trading, forests, press releases, tderm

Why the European Commission should reject the UK's plan for Phase 2 of European Emissions Trading Scheme

Last edited 29 June 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
29 June, 2006

Summary

The European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is intended to allow the EU member states reduce their CO2 emissions in the most cost effective way and in doing so fulfil their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. The scheme covers nearly half of Europe's CO2 emissions, and is seen as a key plank of both European and member states policy to tackle climate change.

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Article tagged as: climate change, EC, emissions trading, EU, europe, government, NAP, reports

Emissions trading scheme - Greenpeace reaction

Last edited 27 October 2004 at 8:00am
27 October, 2004

Commenting on the government's announcement that it will allow substantially more CO2 to be emitted by Britain under the Emissions Trading Scheme, Greenpeace Executive Director Stephen Tindale said:

Article tagged as: climate change, co2, emissions trading, government, press releases, tony blair

Environmental effectiveness and loopholes

Last edited 19 July 2001 at 8:00am
Under threat - polar bear

Under threat - polar bear

In Kyoto in 1997 at the third Conference of the Parties (COP 3), the Kyoto Protocol was adopted. Thirty-eight industrialised countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by varying amounts with an overall reduction of 5.2% below 1990 levels by the year 2010. It also provided a series of 'flexible mechanisms' to help them achieve this.

As negotiations have proceeded it has become clear that these 'mechanisms' have become potential loopholes that, if adopted, would allow industrialised countries to do very little or nothing in the way of real emissions reduction and still appear to meet their targets.

Article tagged as: carbon sinks, climate change, co2, deforestation, emissions trading, forests, impacts, kyoto protocol, loopholes