Is the Canadian Federal Government doing enough to create taxation incentives for SMBs to help them take advantage of green innovation?
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Fri Oct 2, 2009 8:52am EDT
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in the Thai capital, the U.N. said on…
President Obama’s energy and global warming agenda stands at a major crossroads as lawmakers return today from their monthlong summer break amid an all-out push to pass health care legislation.
Senate Democrats originally intended to roll out their version of a…
26 August, 2009
With only 15 official negotiating days left ahead of December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Andrei Marcu takes stock of what progress – if any – was made at this month’s informal meeting
The Bonn…
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WASHINGTON, 4 August 2009 – The first Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement (ERPA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was signed with a local Congolese firm, NOVACEL, at the World Bank office…
Cassandra Drudi, The Ottawa Citizen, July 25, 2009
On Friday, July 31, Michel Gauthier wants us all dancing along the 7,000 metres of the urban portion of the Rideau Canal. The occasion is the opening of the second annual festival celebrating…
Source: Reuters
* India wants to cut reliance on fossil fuels but needs help
* Rich nations should ramp up offset schemes in poorer states
* Tax breaks can mobilise CO2 finance, clean-tech investment
By David Fogarty and Krittivas Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, July…
The volume of carbon emissions traded worldwide grew 6 per cent in the second quarter of 2009. The growth came on the back of a surge in speculative trading in US regional carbon allowances.
New Carbon Finance (NCF) market analysis shows…
A global carbon trading network will be vital to preventing dangerous climate change, a new report commissioned by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown concluded yesterday.
The report makes clear that without a global system for carbon trading, the ability of countries…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are close to a long-discussed search and online advertising deal, which could be announced in the next week, according to the AllThingsDigital blog.
The two companies have talked about cooperating for months,…
Wed Jul 1, 2009 11:55am EDT
By Daniel Flynn
ROME (Reuters) – With only five months to go until a new global pact on climate change, none of the Group of Eight nations is doing enough to curb global warming, with Canada…
