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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Air Over There Airlines must pay for emissions, E.U. says		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:30 AM on 27 Jun 2008 All flights into, out of, and within the European Union will be included in the bloc's emissions-trading scheme as of 2012, the E.U. Parliament decided Thursday. If the plan is given final approval, airlines will have to cut emissions 3 percent in 2012 and 5 percent per year from 2013 on. Airlines would buy 15 percent of their emissions permits from the E.U.; the rest would be allocated for free. Big ...
Topics: air travel, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Thought of the day: Social engineering and climate chaos Social engineering can't be avoided; why make it benefit only the rich?	Gar Lipow	01 May 2008	Gristmill
There is passionate opposition in some circles to combining 'social engineering' with fighting climate chaos. But the fact is, an emissions cut is social engineering. To cut emissions, we are trying to make some of the biggest changes in individual and social behavior ever. Putting 100 percent of that change on the backs of ordinary people by giving away emissions permits that are then sold and incorporated into the prices of consumer goods is also social engineering -- so ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

By Our Power Combined California utilities scuffle over cap-and-trade		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:42 AM on 21 Apr 2008 California is well aware that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is easier said than done. The state's attempts to craft an effective cap-and-trade system are causing infighting among public utilities and their privately owned counterparts. Public utilities, which source more of their power from coal, protest that they're going to end up paying out the nose to the state and seeing the money red ...
Topics: business, California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

Big Ol' Jet Air Whiner Plan to regulate airline emissions moves forward in E.U.		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:26 PM on 21 Dec 2007 A proposed law that would regulate emissions from airlines taking off from or landing in the European Union has been approved by environment ministers. The bill to include airlines in the E.U.'s carbon-trading scheme was scaled back from the version passed by the E.U. Parliament last month, aiming to start in 2012 instead of 2011 and making airlines buy only 10 percent of their carbo ...
Topics: air travel, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

On Track California declares emissions-reduction target, requires industry to track emissions		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:20 PM on 07 Dec 2007 As California's landmark global-warming law requires the state to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, the state Air Resources Board has determined just what that goal will be: 427 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. The number was devised from some 13,000 separate calculations, from the impact of the aviation industry to the number of cows and h ...
Topics: business, California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Los Angeles, news, progress (all these topics)

Keep it simple, stupid! How to structure a cap-and-trade program	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
From an awesomely meaty article on cap-and-trade from The San Francisco Chronicle comes this pearl of wisdom (in bold at the bottom of the quote): [T]he lesson of the acid rain program is to keep the plan simple and easy for all parties to understand. "If it starts to employ a lot of special provisions to take care of every party's special needs ... and if it starts to look like the Chicago phone book, then throw it out," [RFF economist Dallas ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

We Really Needed Some Disclosure More companies disclosing and mitigating emissions, says new report		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:44 AM on 25 Sep 2007 Many corporations are recognizing the impact of climate change on business as usual, and in response are disclosing and working to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions, says a new report from the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project. The group's fifth annual survey of the world's 500 largest companies boasted a 75 percent response rate; of those, 80 percent of busine ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Sustainability gets a warmer embrace from U.S. companies Mindy S. Lubber of CERES looks at how far we've come and what the future might hold	Grist	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the GreenMoney Journal asked leaders in the realms of green business and socially responsible investing to forecast 15 years into the future. How green will our economy be in 2022? GreenMoney's anniversary issue features responses from Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, futurist Hazel Henderson, and others. Mindy Lubber. Here, reprinted with permission, is a view from Mindy S. Lubbe ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

PG&E's 'ClimateSmart' offsets are anything but Breaking all the offset rules	Joseph Romm	09 Jul 2007	Gristmill
[Important update to this post here.] One reason I began posting my Rules of Carbon Offsets is a dubious program by the California utility PG&E called ClimateSmart, which is supposed to allow PG&E customers to become 'climate neutral.' This program actually manages to violate rules zero, 1, and 2 all at once! It really makes clear why offsets are bastardized emissions reductions -- and why trees are an especially dubious offset. This picture graces the 'Ou ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, greenwashing (all these topics)

Rules of the road for carbon offsets: A better map Carbon offsets are tricky business	Adam Stein	09 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Joseph Romm has been running a series of 'rules of the road for carbon offsets' on these pages. This is a worthwhile endeavor, and as good of an excuse as any for me to provide some shade and color to the frequently misconceived debate over offsets. Although I mostly agree with Romm's conclusions, I don't think he chose the best route to reach them. My intent is not to rebut Romm's proposed rules -- again, I (mostly) agree with all of the guidelines posted so far, eve ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Rule zero: Heal thyself Offsets should be the last thing you need to turn to	Joseph Romm	06 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Before you pay others to reduce their emissions on your behalf, you need to do everything reasonably possible to reduce your own emissions first. As the saying goes, 'Physician, heal thyself,' before presuming to heal other people. This rule is so obvious I almost forgot it. And yet many people, including Google and PG&E, don't seem to get it. The whole point of offsets is not to make you feel good, and it's not to allow you to continue polluting as much as y ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

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