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 There is an urgent need for higher climate, finance and emissions reduction ambitions to speed up low carbon growth.   GLOBE-Net, May 30, 2013 – Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said there is an urgent...

 California’s most recent Cap-and-Trade auction signal the market is coalescing around a clear price for allowances. GLOBE-Net, MAY 29, 2013 – On May 21, 2013, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the results of its most recent auction of allowances...

 The U.S.-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance has published an informative review of Ontario’s buy local” Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program. GLOBE-Net, May 27, 2013 – The U.S.-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance has published an informative review of...

  GLOBE-Net, May 15, 2013 –  In a little over 18 months, South Korea will launch a scheme that will cap around 70% of its greenhouse gas emissions. A White Paper published by research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in cooperation with Ernst & Young, concludes...

GLOBE-Net, May 6, 2013 – The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has issued a report analyzing three policy proposals currently in play to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada, and recommends alternatives to what is being contemplated by...

  GLOBE-Net, April 26, 2013 – The decision this week by California’s Air Resources Board setting January 1, 2014 as the start date for the linking of California’s cap-and-trade program with that of Québec is a major step forward for both jurisdictions. The...

  GLOBE-Net, April 8, 2013 – The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the U.S’s first market-based regulatory program to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, enters its 6th year of operation with a renewed mandate and record high sales. The scheme’s most...

The world's carbon markets are at a turning point according to the latest Thomson Reuters Point Carbon annual survey of carbon trading.