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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SCS Global Services was named "Best Validation Company" and "Best Verification Company" in Carbon Trading Magazine's 2012 Carbon Market Survey. Members of the carbon industry were invited to vote on their peers based on efficiency and quality of service, reliability in the market and the ability to adapt to changing market conditions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120827/MM63583LOGO) "We are honored to be recognized by...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As a second week of climate talks begin at the Doha Summit in Qatar, the nearly 200 countries gathered there are no closer to a climate deal than when the last summit ended in Durban, South Africa in 2011. In fact, a rift that is continuing between wealthy nations and developing economies has led at least one country to back out of the talks altogether, saying it’s an outdated response to global warming. While New Zealand’s...
New standardized methodology developed by The Earth Partners, in a partnership with Applied Ecological Services and Brinkman & Associates, allows public agencies and other parties to document and receive marketplace credit—or other financial incentives—for improvements to soil carbon levels. Brodhead, WI (PRWEB) December 01, 2012 The Earth Partners is pleased to announce the validation of its comprehensive soil carbon quantification methodology by the Verified Carbon Standard...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Carbon Lighthouse is excited to announce the recent closure of a project funding round. The funds will be used to help clients finance energy efficiency and carbon neutrality projects throughout California. Investors included private individuals and businesses interested in supporting meaningful environmental change while receiving an attractive financial return. "We are very excited to be able to use this new round of project...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today commended President Obama for signing S. 1956, a bipartisan measure that allows the Transportation Secretary to direct U.S. airlines not to participate in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111201/DC15444LOGO) "With the President's signature today, the United States has...
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AirCounts(TM)--a new online tool to help large and medium-sized cities calculate the health benefits and monetary value of air quality improvements--was introduced today by its developer, Abt Associates. "As cities across the globe begin establishing climate change policies and programs that include improving air quality, they'll need to answer questions about the health benefits and economic value that can be realized from those...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Greenhouse gas emissions originating from drained wetlands are roughly equal to that given off by industrial factories, a team of Swedish researchers claim in a new study. Experts from the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) were commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to analyze and compile a report about the amount of greenhouse gases given off by forests and...
QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BluForest Inc. (OTCBB: BLUF) (OTCQB: BLUF) BluForest Inc. ("BluForest" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in the field of Carbon Trading and Renewable Energy, is monitoring developments within the EU to allow Carbon Offset Swaps retroactive to May 1(st) 2012 and how this may affect the Company's future development. As outlined in the Bloomberg News article by Ewa Krukowska on October 2(nd), 2012(1) the "European Union is considering...
EVEN YEHUDA, Israel, November 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Sphere Corp. (OTCBB: BLSP) (the "Company" or "Blue Sphere"), a company in the Cleantech and Waste to Energy sectors as a project integrator, is pleased to announce that each of its two waste to energy projects - a 5.2 MW plant in North Carolina and a 3.2 MW plant in Rhode Island - has signed a letter of intent with an international compost manufacturing and marketing company at prices of up to $20 per ton of compost....
XI'AN, China, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Recycling Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: CREG; "CREG" or "the Company"), a leading industrial waste-to-energy solution provider in China, today announced that its subsidiary, Erdos TCH Energy Saving Co., Ltd., has recently completed the registration of a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project entitled, "Inner Mongolia Erdos Metallurgy Co., Ltd. Electric Furnaces Waste Energy Utilization for Power Generation Project (Phase One)". The CDM...
