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EU carbon trading scheme has been 'an enormous success'
Danny Ellerman
9th March, 2010
The European Emissions Trading Scheme was always going to disappoint the NGOs who wanted a perfect climate solution, but simply bashing it ignores the progerss that can be made through small steps more...
European carbon trading labelled 'model for the world'
Ecologist
1st March, 2010
The world’s first carbon trading scheme should be used as a model for global cap-and-trade says leading American economist more...
MPs propose carbon tax to boost green investment
Terry Macalister
8th February, 2010
MPs say a carbon tax is needed to get the EU emissions trading scheme working more...
What the carbon market did after Copenhagen: nothing
Dan Box
2nd February, 2010
Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign more...
Carbon traders quit emissions market amid drop in demand
Tim Webb
25th January, 2010
Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed to reach agreement on emissions targets more...
UK emissions figures distorted by offsets, say MPs
Ecologist
11th January, 2010
UK emissions figures are ‘misleading’ and need to be recounted because they include offsets, according to a committee of MPs more...
A toothless cap-and-trade scheme is a planetary wrecking ball
Alison Smith
10th December, 2009
The theory of cap-and-trade is brilliantly simple; in practice, however, it's just not moving fast enough, says Alison Smith. A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition... more...
Carbon trading to net £1bn for UK's richest man
Ecologist
7th December, 2009
Airlines also likely to see profits double under the next phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme more...
Sceptics and greens reject Australian carbon trading plan
Ecologist
2nd December, 2009
Emissions under the carbon trading proposals would not have started to decline until after 2030 say campaigners more...
Why carbon trading cannot work
Molly Scott Cato
13th November, 2009
Carbon trading cannot work. How do we know this? Because economic theory tells us so more...
Are your emissions 'survival' or 'luxury'?
Daniel Scharf
11th November, 2009
A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition, Daniel Scharf suggests that the whole concept of a carbon 'market' is radically flawed... more...
Carbon rationing on the agenda says environment chief
Ecologist
9th November, 2009
Personal allowances would allow equitable use of carbon says the head of the Environment Agency more...
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Carbon trading is a dangerous obsession, says report
Ecologist
November 5th, 2009
Carbon trading schemes are allowing speculators to grow rich but are not delivering the emissions cuts promised, says Friends of the Earth more...
Pricing the tonne of carbon that tips us into climate catastrophe
Janine Morley
4th November, 2009
In this brilliant winning entry of the Ecologist/New Economics Foundation essay competition, Janine Morley imagines what it would be like to buy that fateful tonne of carbon from a telephone broker... more...
Carbon markets not working, says Deutsche Bank
Ecologist
2nd November, 2009
Carbon markets are not working and UK and US government policy is not encouraging investment in renewable energy, says a leading bank more...
Carbon rationing may be needed by 2012, says IPPR
Ecologist
9th September, 2009
Although unpopular and expensive, personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change more...
Personal carbon trading: the next step in tackling carbon emissions?
Tom Levitt
3rd September, 2009
A report published by the IPPR next week will say personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change more...
Copenhagen and the carbon conundrum
Felicia Jackson
10th August, 2009
It's too late to create an entirely new global climate framework, argues Felicia Jackson. We need to put a price on carbon to reflect its true cost, and Copenhagen, while flawed, is our best hope more...
Europe's failing carbon emissions trading system
Ecologist
21st July, 2009
Europe's carbon trading scheme is making big windfall profits for industry but not reducing carbon emissions a new report says more...
Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent
Eifion Rees
3rd July, 2009
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year more...
The power of sustainable thinking
Bob Doppelt
20th February, 2009
From carbon trading to embodied emissions, our difficulties would be greatly reduced if we changed the way we perceive our own beliefs, says Bob Doppelt more...
Personal Carbon Allowance: emission impossible?
Jamie Andrews
20th June, 2008
The Government has backtracked on radical plans for personal carbon trading schemes, reports Jamie Andrews – taking accountability for what we emit is the only way to go. more...
Cornering the market
Faisal Islam
1st June, 2008
Do the peaks and troughs of the financial markets really hold the key to solving our environmental troubles? Faisal Islam investigates more...
Proposed trading in aviation emissions 'doesn't go far enough'
News
15th November, 2007
The European Union has been accused of letting the air industry off the hook in tackling carbon dioxide emissions. more...
Carbon Trading and the limits of free-market logic
Kevin Smith
3rd October, 2007
Carbon trading, its backers claim, brings emissions reductions and supports sustainable development in the global south. But, argues Kevin Smith, it may do neither, and is harming efforts to create a low-carbon economy. more...Members
