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• U.S. Study Suggests Pricing Carbon from Ground to Consumer
  Oct. 19, 2011 - scientificamerican.com
  
  To measure a country's greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels, it makes sense to consider the whole carbon supply chain, from oil well or coal mine to a consumer's shelf, scientists reported on Monday.
  
  
• United Nations Proposes Stopgaps as Global Talks Fail to Renew Kyoto Pact
  Aug 25, 2010 - By Mathew Carr - bloomberg.net
  
  A United Nations climate group said it may be possible to extend emission caps included in the Kyoto Protocol for two years after they expire in 2012, preventing an interruption in the supply of offset credits.
  
  
• What is the real cost of power production?
  Oct 19, 2009 - Katie Howell - Scientific American
  
  Market prices don't reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment, a National Research Council panel said in a report released today.
  
  
• Nation's first greenhouse gas auction nets $38.5M
  Sep 29, 2008 - Mary Esch - excitenews.com - Associated Press
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. - Power companies were the biggest spenders in the nation's first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction, raising nearly $40 million that will be spent by Northeast states on renewable and energy efficient technologies.
  
  
• Carbon goes on the auction block in NY
  Sep 25, 2008 - Karen Matthews - TheAssociated Press
  
  NEW YORK - Greenhouse gases went on sale Thursday as 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states held the nation's first auction of pollution credits aimed at curbing global warming.
  
  
• Western initiative sets up emissions-trading plan
  Sep 23, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  Sacramento - Seven Western states and four Canadian provinces on Tuesday proposed a comprehensive program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, manufacturers and vehicles.
  
  
• Cap and trade arrives in the Northeast: First carbon auction set for Thursday
  Sep 22, 2008 - Sciam.com
  
  A coalition of 10 Northeastern states will hold a carbon auction Thursday, the country's first in a mandatory cap-and-trade program designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Power generators have been ordered by the 10 states who agreed to the regional program to limit their collective carbon dioxide emissions to the current level of 188 million tons (171 million metric tons) beginning next year, then reduce them by another 10 percent by 2018 in an attempt to reduce climate-change causing emissions.
  
  
• India will avoid 5mn tonnes of CO2 by 2012
  Sep 9, 2008 - Nitin Sethi - The Economic Times - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  India - For those who believe India is not doing enough to check the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, here is some news that should serve as an eye-opener. Through carbon trading projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be avoided by 2012 -cutting back 10 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions every year.
  
  
• New York formally adopts carbon cap-and-trade program
  Aug, 2008 - Power News
  
  New York State's Environmental Board last week unanimously approved regulations to implement the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market-based, mandatory cap-and-trade scheme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants within 10 northeastern and mid-Atlantic states.
  
  
• Crusty Coal to Clean Kilowatts: Decarbonizing Australia by 2040 (pdf)
  2008 - Australian Society of Foreign Energy Executives (ASFEE)
  
  Climate change is not a technology problem. Climate change is an economic reform problem. If market forces are unleased against climate change, Australia can enjoy higher living standards, an improved economy, a healthier natural environmental and increased global economic and political power. With unrivalled resources of low emission energy, all cheaper over the long-term than carbon capture and storage or nuclear, Australia can become a global "clean energy superpower."
  
  
• Proposed Coal Plants Hit Snags: More Than 50 Projects Halted Over Wide Variety of Concerns
  Jan 29, 2008 - Los Angeles Times
  
  America's headlong rush to tap its enormous coal reserves for electricity has slowed abruptly, with more than 50 proposed coal-fired power plants in 20 states canceled or delayed in 2007 because of concerns about climate change, construction costs and transportation problems.
  
  
• Kansai Electric succeeds in injecting large amount of CO2 into coal beds
  Jan 28, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kyodo News International, Tokyo
  
  Kansai Electric Power Co. said Monday it has succeeded in an experiment to inject a large amount of carbon dioxide into deep coal beds by using nitrogen for the first time in the world.
  
  
• Coal plant would be 'waste of money'
  Jan 10, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Dave DeWitte The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  
  One of the world's top climate scientists says a new coal-fired power plant planned for Marshalltown would be a waste of money because it will soon be necessary to close such coal-burning facilities to save the earth's climate.
  
  
• Utilities in Hong Kong Back Green Plan
  Jan 8, 2008 - International Hearld Tribune
  
  Hong Kong's two electric power companies agreed on Monday to a new regulatory system that sets their rate of return on assets based partly on how much pollution they emit, an approach that could someday be a model for mainland China's giant power sector as well.
  
  
• At Least 8 Clean Coal Plants Blocked
  Dec 27, 2007 - USA Today
  
  Clean coal-fired power plants have been touted as a remedy for an environmentally challenged age, offering the promise of turning cheap but dirty coal into a pollution-free energy source. Don't turn off those wind turbines yet.
  
  
• Highest CO2 Emitting Power Plants in the World
  Nov 19, 2007 - Center for Global Development
  
  [This post originally appeared on the Center for Global Development's "Views from the Center" blog.] It's been a busy week here at the Center for Global Development. On Tuesday we hosted the meeting of CGD's Board of Directors--an activity that would have normally been plenty of excitement for one week. On Wednesday afternoon we revealed CARMA Carbon Monitoring for Action – our global database showing the CO2 emissions, power production, and emission intensity of the 50,000 power plants in the world and the 20,000 companies (including 4,000 dedicated utility firms) that own them. By mid-day on Thursday CARMA was among the top stories on both the BBC Online and CNN.com...
  
  
• Climatologist wants halt to coal plants: Scientist emphasizes need to stabilize carbon dioxide levels
  Nov 17, 2007 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bruce Henderson
  
  At 66, one of the nation's most prominent climate-change scientists says he's more interested in finding solutions than placing blame for a warming planet. Today's Headlines Electricity Supply Recovering From Cut in Natural Gas Flow; One Official Says the Call to Conserve Power Shows State's Vulnerability NZ government introduces legislation to ban power plants that burn fossil fuel China's draft energy law to up reserves, boost controls; scant mention of climate change Feds to reconsider power line in mid-Atlantic, Southwest states Making a case for coal, U.S. energy states demand action One key solution, physicist James Hansen said Friday: No more coal-fired power plants like the one Duke Energy plans to expand 50 miles west of Charlotte.
  
  
• Inspired by Kansas rejection, opponents target rural Mo. plant
  Nov 13, 2007 - Alan Scher Zagier - Associated Press
  
  A proposed new power plant in rural Carroll County is drawing opposition from some local residents and environmentalists who want state regulators and the utility company to put more emphasis on alternative energy sources.
  
  
• Residents Oppose Coal-Fired Power Plant
  Nov 12, 2007 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Meetings on a proposed 750-megawatt, coal-fired plant drew numerous opponents in Mesquite and St. George, Utah, but only a few environmentalists to a meeting late Thursday in Las Vegas.
  
  
• New CO2 ocean sequestration method created
  Nov 7, 2007 - UPI
  
  U.S. scientists have developed a technology that enhances removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in Earth's oceans.
  
  
• IEA tips 'king coal' in bleak view of world's energy future
  Nov 7, 2007 - Thompson Financial News
  
  The International Energy Agency has painted a bleak picture of the next two decades, with the world's dependence on fossil fuels set to rocket at a time of global alarm about climate change.
  
  
• NRG and Powerspan Announce Large-Scale Demonstration of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) for Coal-Fueled Power Plants
  Nov 2, 2007 - Business Wire
  
  NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) and Powerspan Corp. today announced their memorandum of understanding to demonstrate at commercial scale one of the most promising technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from conventional coal-fueled, electric power plants -- Powerspan's ECO2(TM) technology. The post-combustion, regenerative process uses an ammonia-based solution to capture CO2 from the flue gas of a power plant and release it in a form that is ready for safe transportation and permanent geological storage.
  
  
• Nations, States, Provinces announce carbon markets partnership to reduce global warming
  Oct 29, 2007 - M2 PressWIRE
  
  A coalition of European Union countries, the European Commission, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Norway today announced the formation of the International Carbon Action Partnership (http://www.ICAPCarbonAction.com) to fight global warming.
  
  
• Environmentalists: Carbon dioxide rules before new coal plants
  Oct 10, 2007 - Tim Martin - The Associated Press
  
  Environmental groups on Wednesday urged state officials to begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants before allowing any new facilities in Michigan.
  
  
• Carbon-Capture Technology At Least 10 Years Away-Duke CEO
  Sep 11, 2007 - Matthew Dalton - Dow Jones Newswires
  
  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The technology to capture carbon-dioxide emissions from a power plant and store them underground is 10 to 15 years away from commercial viability, limiting the power sector's ability to significantly cut emissions in the short to medium term, Duke Energy Corp.'s (DUK) top executive said Tuesday.
  
  
• Business executives plan to push Pacific Rim leaders to create carbon emissions pricing system
  Sep 5, 2007 - Malcolm Foster - The Associated Press
  
  SYDNEY, Australia - Pacific Rim business leaders say governments must make polluting more costly to businesses and make investing in expensive energy-efficient technologies more attractive if they want to reduce global warming.
  
  
• Carbon Capture Must be Major Global Priority - Shell Executive
  Sep 4, 2007 - Dow Jones Newswire
  
  ABERDEEN, Scotland -(Dow Jones)- Developing commercially viable carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology should be a major priority for companies and governments all over the world because renewable energy sources will not be able to replace oil and gas quickly enough, a senior executive at Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Tuesday.
  
  
• Carbon Footprint of Electricity Generation (pdf) (power point)
  Oct, 2006 - Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK
  
  All electricity generation systems have a ‘carbon footprint’, that is, at some points during their construction and operation carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted. There is some debate about how large these footprints are, especially for ‘low carbon’ technologies such as wind and nuclear. This POSTnote compares the life cycle CO2 emissions of different electricity generation systems currently used in the UK, including fossil-fuelled and ‘low carbon’.
  

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