Climate Change

New Universal Climate Agreement Must Meet Adaptation Needs of Vulnerable Communities

Communities across the developing world have a wealth of local knowledge and ingenuity to adapt more successfully to climate change but they urgently need greater international support to unlock their ambitions, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said on Wednesday.

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Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Developing Countries, Climate Adaptation, UNFCCC, Nepal, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Climate Change

Brazil looks to swap World Cup publicity for carbon credits

Brazil, looking to offset the carbon emissions generated by construction, travel and other activities related to hosting the 2014 Soccer World Cup, said on Tuesday it wants holders of United Nation

Publication Date: 
16/04/2014
Planet Ark (Australia)
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Brazil, Carbon Dioxide, Games, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Carbon Offset, Carbon Market, Certified Emission Reduction, Energy, Waste Management
Energy

Can carbon revenues help transform household energy markets?: a scoping study with cookstove programmes in India and Kenya

Efforts to bring cleaner, more efficient stoves to the billions of people who use traditional biomass for cooking and heating have gained new momentum in recent years, driven both by longstanding health and environmental concerns, and by a growing recognition of the importance of modern energy access for development.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2014
Fiona Lambe, Marie Jürisoo, Carrie Lee, Oliver Johnson
Stockholm Environment Institute
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Household Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Carbon Market, India, Kenya, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Certified Emission Reduction
Climate Change

The land-use sector within the post-2020 climate regime

The land-use sector serves key environmental and social functions and supports the livelihoods of around a half of the world’s population. Despite its importance, however, the climate regime fails to formulate a coherent vision or set of incentives for mitigation and adaptation from the sector.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2014
Charlie Parker, Eduard Merger, Charlotte Streck, & et al
Nordic Council of Ministers
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Climate Change, Land Use, Forests, Agriculture, UNFCCC, India, Global, LULUCF, Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Climate Change

A bid to link climate change to human rights

In March 2012, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an archipelago nation in the Pacific, informed international journalists that his Cabinet has endorsed a plan to buy 6,000 acres on Fiji’s main isla

Publication Date: 
25/03/2014
S. Gopikrishna Warrier
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Climate Change, Conference Of Parties, Copenhagen, Maldives, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Global Warming
Climate Change

Pricing of uncertain certified emission reductions in a Chinese coal mine methane project with an extended Rubinstein-Ståhl model

The development of coal mine methane (CMM) projects is subject to various kinds of risk, one of these being their highly variable methane content. In this study, a new methodology is proposed to reflect the impact of this uncertainty on a negotiated Certified Emission Reduction (CER) price, which is based on the available information. To simulate a process of price negotiation the Rubinstein-Ståhl bargaining game is utilized, where a buyer’s discount factor is unknown. It is assumed that a buyer’s willingness to accomplish price negotiations depends on the CER uncertainty.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2014
Xiangyang Xu, Joanna Horabik, Zbigniew Nahorski
Climatic Change
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Mining, Climate Change, Methane, China, Coal, Certified Emission Reduction, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Environment

Eco-friendly brick kilns fetch foreign currency

The country's first environment friendly CDM project in the brick kiln industry with Hybrid Hoffman Kiln (HHK) technology has fetched carbon revenue of US$ 264,525 for reduction of 17,403 tonnes of

Publication Date: 
27/02/2014
Financial Express (Bangladesh)
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Bangladesh, Bricks, Environment, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Green House Gases, UNFCCC, Energy Efficiency, Awards, South Asia
Industry

Tata Power acquires 39.2 MW wind farm in Gujarat

Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power, on Tuesday completed acquisition of 100% shareholding in AES Saurashtra Windfarms Pvt Ltd (ASW), the erstwhile 100% subsid

Publication Date: 
26/02/2014
Business Line (New Delhi)
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Energy, Wind Energy, Gujarat, Renewable Energy, Jamnagar (D), Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), UNFCCC, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Solar Energy, Power Industry
Energy

Largest trans-boundary clean energy project

PHEP-I: Punatsangchhu hydroelectric project I (PHEP-I) will earn about Nu 1.4B worth of foreign currency annually upon commissioning, in exchange for carbon credits.

Publication Date: 
18/02/2014
Kuensel (Bhutan)
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Bhutan, Energy, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Certified Emission Reduction, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), UNFCCC, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, South Asia
Energy

CO2 baseline database for the Indian power sector

This database compiled by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) contains data on CO2 emissions for all grid-connected power stations in India. The purpose of the database is to establish authentic and consistent quantification of the CO2 emission baseline which can be readily used by CDM project developers in the Indian power sector.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2014
Central Electricity Authority
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Power Industry, India, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Emission Targets, Electricity

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