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As uncertainty looms over the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the delegates of the Carbon Forum Asia 2011 met at Singapore in an attempt to iron out differences and arrive at new solutions. The sombre note was provided by the World Bank assessment that global carbon markets have stalled after five years of consecutive growth. ... Read More

Even more than the carbon tax itself, the central mechanism of the Gillard government’s clean energy bills now making their way through parliament is the international carbon trading market. Although the carbon tax will cost Australians $9 billion in its first year, our greenhouse emissions continue to rise under the tax. We hit our target ... Read More

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) is making major strides in the hedge fund arena, according to a new report prepared for the US SIF Foundation by the Center for Social Philanthropy at the Tellus Institute. According to “Sustainability Trends in Alternative Investments in the United States,” $80.9 billion was invested in ... Read More

A “trade war” could result from the House’s passage of a bill that bans European countries from imposing emission-trading requirements on U.S. airlines, environmentalists said. The House on Monday approved legislation to block the European Union from requiring U.S. airlines to participate in its Emissions Trading System starting next year. Under the proposed system, which ... Read More

The European Commission has released details of its plan to create a centralised registry for emissions trading permits by January 2013, and security will be a paramount consideration The European Commission has released details of its plan to create a centralised registry for emissions trading permits by January 2013, and security will be a paramount ... Read More

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — California air regulators approved the final design for what will become the country’s first economy-wide program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The Air Resources Board approved 252 pages of rules governing how the state will cut carbon emissions from power generators, oil refineries and industrial plants roughly 15 percent by 2020. ... Read More

Hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones added a number of positions to his portfolios in the second quarter of this year. Though the next round of earnings reports are due at the end of month, I review these four Jones picks here to see if they are on track to fare well in light of ... Read More