Originally published on EnergyPost. China will launch a national emission trading scheme. In a joint US-China climate statement, issued as part of President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States, China said its new trading system will cover “key industry sectors such as iron and steel, power generation, chemicals, building materials, … [continued]
A new program that encourages companies to voluntarily report their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) was recently launched in Hong Kong. An online carbon footprint repository (CFR) that enables listed companies in Hong Kong to voluntarily report their GHG emissions was launched by the Environment Bureau and Hong Kong Exchanges and … [continued]
This week, the government of Chile holds a final vote on its first carbon taxation scheme, also the first in South America, a measure to make fossil fuel generators pay for emitting greenhouse gases. The Chile carbon tax is part of a larger program of wide-ranging tax revisions introduced by the country’s … [continued]
There are five Nobel-prize-winning economists among the 26 US economists calling on President Obama, in an open letter, to drop opposition and support the European Union’s legislation that will charge airlines for their carbon emissions. “We implore you to support the European Union’s innovative efforts to place a price … [continued]
MIT’s newly inaugurated David H Koch Institute is expected to save 30% in energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
About a fifth of the cost was funded by pollution-auction proceeds from cap and trade at the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
This very ironic news that David Koch is one of the many beneficiaries of a cap and trade program he bitterly opposes, was broken by Positioning Green writer Jon Coifman at Climate Progress.
