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UN's Forest Protection Scheme At Risk For Crime And Fraud

The Guardian | John Vidal | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Prince Charles, Carbon Markets, Carbon Emissions, Rainforest, Carbon Trading, Un Climate Summit, Redd, Conservation, Sustainability, Un, Forest Protection, Prince's Rainforest Project, UN Climate Change, Greece, Tom Cruise, Foreign Policy, Green News

Experts on all sides of the debate, from international police to politicians to conservationists, have warned this week that the scheme, called Reduci...

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Carbon Traders Arrested For Tax Fraud

nytimes.com | James Kanter | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Tax Fraud, Carbon Trading Tax Fraud, Carbon Trading, Energy, EU Cap and Trade, Green News

British officials said the people arrested could be part of an organized group that operated a network of companies trading large volumes of the permi...

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New Climate Bill Could Create "Super Lobby" Against U.S. Emissions Reductions

Teryn Norris | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Waxman-Markey, Climate Policy, Climate Lobby, Carbon Market, Carbon Trading, Aces, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Derivatives, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News
Teryn Norris

A closer examination reveals that the American Clean Energy abd Security Act could create a "super-lobby" of interest groups that will significantly diminish the possibility of achieving future reforms.

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Cap And Dividend Defined: The "Third Way"

good.is | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Dividend, Cap and Dividend Definition, Carbon Trading, Pollution, Green Politics, Green News

Enter the Great Third Way, more formally known as cap-and-dividend. The cap part is familiar--a set number of pollution permits would be auctioned off...

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Senate Not Likely To Pass Climate Bill Of Obama's Dreams

Reuters | Posted 04.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Trading, Jeff Bingaman, Obama Environment, Climate Bill, Green Politics, Green News

Any climate bill that passes the Senate is unlikely to adhere to an Obama administration plan that the government auction all of the permits to emit g...

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Energy Boss Calls EU Carbon Trading The New Sub-Prime

The Guardian | Terry Macalister | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Europe, Subprime Mortgages, Carbon Trading, Finance, EU Emissions Trading, Green Politics, Emissions Trading, Green News

The row over the working of the European Union's emissions trading scheme intensified last night when EDF Energy warned that speculators risked turnin...

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Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing

DISCOVER Magazine | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Credits, Carbon Economy, Carbon Trading, Carbon Broker, Green News

Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients. B...

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Carbon Markets and Environmentalism: Is 'Market-Based' the New Dirty Word(s)?

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Tax, Carbon Trading, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

These are strange, even frightening times. But global warming remains a problem that must be addressed, and soon. Cap-and-trade still seems to me to be the best way to go.

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Carbon Trading Catching On

Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cap and Trade, Chicago Climate Exchange, Richard Sandor, Green Exchange, Chicago Greenhouse Gas Trading, Carbon Trading, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Chicago Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chicago News

While the financial markets flounder, one exchange in Chicago had a record day this week. The Chicago Climate Exchange hosted its biggest trading day ...

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