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Dubai Airports achieve level two of Airport Carbon Accreditation Programme
2016-02-18 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Al Maktoum-Dubai World Central (DWC) have attained level two accreditation under the Airports Council International's (ACI) carbon accreditation programme.
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A carbon tax Jerry Brown thinks could have potential
2016-02-17 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday said a tax on carbon dioxide emissions has potential and suggested he was open to the idea. The Democratic governor, a fiscal moderate but longtime champion of environmental causes, noted support among some conservatives for a revenue-neutral carbon tax, in which proceeds are not held by the government. Former secretary of treasury and former secretary of state (George) Shultz and Arthur Laffer, the Reagan adviser on supply-side economics, have both strongly endorsed...
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EU carbon price rout ?overdone?, but buy with caution -SocGen
2016-02-17 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Pulse: Analysts at French investment bank Societe Generale on Tuesday slashed their EU Allowance price estimates by 24% across the board but said the recent price rout has been overdone, recommending that its clients buy with caution. The analysts predict that front-year EUA prices will end 2016 at 6.80, they wrote in an emailed report, down from their previous view of 9.00 published last September but 45% above current levels near 4.70. Prices are then seen creeping up to 7 by the end of 2017, SocGen...
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Power supply spat hints at obstacles for China's carbon market
2016-02-17 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Pulse: Chinas five major state-owned utilities this week complained to the NDRC that the Gansu provincial government forces them to pay coal-fired generators to get their renewables onto the grid, a move that highlights obstacles facing the national ETS before it can make a real impact on CO2 emissions from the power sector. Chinas five major state-owned utilities this week complained to the NDRC that the Gansu provincial government forces them to pay coal-fired generators to get their renewables onto...
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Enhanced levels of carbon dioxide are likely cause of global dryland greening, study says
2016-02-16 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are a likely key driver of global dryland greening, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. The positive trend in vegetation greenness has been observed through satellite images, but the reasons for it had been unclear. After analyzing 45 studies from eight countries, Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and a Ph.D. student in Wang's...
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