It seems like alchemy: a Silicon Valley start-up says it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and lock them into cement. If it works on a mass scale, the company, Calera, could turn that carbon into gold.
This document contains the presentation by Ashokankur Datta and E. Somanathan on "Climate Polity in the absence of commitment", presented at National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
This report have identified no less than 154 new policy announcements globally just since October, in the run-up to the conference. This is the highest number of new government initiatives ever recorded on this issue in a four month period. Progress can be traced directly to the summit and the Copenhagen Accord which called on countries to state publicly what they were doing about climate change.
This report is based on IGES initiated research to assess embodied emissions in international trade, with particular focus on Asian countries. Part I focuses on the assessment of emissions embodied in multilateral trade in Asian countries and different responsibility principles for the generation of national green house gas inventories.
Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to implement an amended carbon tax yesterday following last week's ruling by France's constitutional council that the original proposal was unlawful, writes Ben Hall in Paris .
The S&P/IFC carbon efficient index would encourage carbon-based competition among emerging market companies, giving such companies access to long-term investors
