China’s First Voluntary Carbon Standard Announced at US-China Low Carbon Conference

September 29th, 2009 KENILWORTH, England - The Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) 20/20 Vision conference is intended to help establish a transparent vision for the heating industry as a significant stepping stone towards 2050. The conference is taking place on the Thursday 15 October 2005 at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

September 28th, 2009 HONG KONG - - Irish Investment Bank and CITIC GROUP Begin Joint Venture Carbon Bank Ireland, Ltd., an Irish investment bank, today announced the execution of a joint-venture agreement with the Chinese financial conglomerate, CITIC GROUP, to implement a trading platform for Voluntary Emission Credits (VERs). These will be generated by companies which wish to reduce their carbon emissions in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).

September 22nd, 2009 DUBLIN - EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker & McKenzie LLP, a leading climate change law firm, and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Report 2009. The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey was originally undertaken in 2008 to establish what the business consumer thought about the voluntary carbon market and understand the varying views and opinions about the use of carbon offsets as part of a wider, integrated carbon management strategy.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Mercuria Energy is positioning itself to be one of the world's top traders in carbon, with strategic hires and a business plan for growth. Among the new talent that has joined Mercuria are: - Andrei Marcu, former President of the International Emissions Trading Association and former CEO of Bluenext, who is one of the corporate sector pioneers in the area of climate change and sustainable development, - Franck Bernard, former business developer with MASDAR and with EdF Trading-a part of Électricité de France-who has been a pioneer in negotiating emissions reduction purchase agreements, - Carl Vevle, a seasoned portfolio manager with experience at BP, Fortis and JP Morgan, - Li Xing, an expert on the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets, with experience at Deutsche Bank.

June 17th, 2009 ATLANTA - Free Service Opportunity For Companies Seeking Reliable Insight Into Air Travel-Related Carbon Emissions TRX, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRXI), a global leader in travel technology and data services, today announced the extension of its web services offering to include free access to airline carbon emissions measurement calculations as part of the new TRX Carbon Emissions Developer Toolkit.

June 1st, 2009 DUBLIN - EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, announces the registration of the Rotor Elektrik Uretim wind farm in Osmaniye, Turkey, under the Gold Standard in May 2009. Zorlu Enerji has constructed the first phase of the project, which currently has 15 turbines in place.

May 12th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - Rasamny-Younis Motor Company S.A.L. (RYMCO), exclusive dealer of Nissan Motors (Nissan, Infiniti), GM vehicles (GMC), Renault trucks, Nissan Diesel (UD), FAW trucks, and Kawasaki in Lebanon, has taken pioneering steps in its quest to emerge as one of the country's most environmentally-friendly automotive dealers, by signing an agreement with UK-listed EcoSecurities to audit and offset the Company's direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - IDEAcarbon today launched a partnership programme for its Carbon Calendar to enable carbon market participants to track and analyse the key events that shape the regulatory changes and other events likely to influence the global emissions market. The IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar(TM) was launched today in cooperation with the Thomson Reuters' Carbon Market Community, the London Energy Brokers Association, reegle.info and Carbon Yatra who will carry the calendar on their websites.

March 11th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - The University of Bath's Integrated Environmental Management Programme has selected Panopto to help extend the reach of conferences and courses on carbon footprints. Beginning this month, The University of Bath will deliver new training to bridge business knowledge gaps in the fast-developing area of product and service carbon footprinting and carbon labeling.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - Businesses Should Seize Opportunity to Demonstrate Green Credentials New research from the Carbon Trust Standard shows that consumers still want to buy green despite the current economic climate, with 62% of consumers saying environmental concerns influence their purchasing decisions 'the same as a year ago' and just over a quarter saying they influence them 'even more' than in 2008. The research shows that a business's green credentials have a significant impact on consumer buying choices.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A panel of experts have determined that China's carbon emissions output could peak around 2030 if the government continues to be serious about "strengthened measures" to improve energy efficiency and if it accelerates exploration of renewable energy. According to the panel from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Development Research Center of the State Council, with the right policies, emissions growth could slow after 2020, with a peak around 2030.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - In a new study, an international team of scientists has found that the plants in China absorb a third of its carbon emissions. According to a report in Nature News, similar work has been done for the United States, but this study provides the first comprehensive analysis of China's terrestrial carbon uptake, which is critical for calculating the country's net emissions.

April 24th, 2009 Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel ruleSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators have adopted the nation's first mandate for low-carbon fuels, a major step in the state's effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Travel management company Uniglobe Travel Wednesday launched a carbon offset programme in India that will allow air travellers to purchase carbon credits to reduce the environmental impact of their travel. Uniglobe, which launched the programme in association with CarbonNeutral Co, a global carbon management firm, said the fund raised through the sale of carbon credits would be used in various emission reduction projects in the country.

February 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australians are already doing more than their share of heating up the world, with average greenhouse gas emissions near the top of the table. Now the continent's worst forest fires on record have bumped up the size of Australia's carbon footprint.

September 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australia has overtaken the US as the country that produces more carbon dioxide per person than any other, the British risk assessment company Maplecroft Ltd said Friday. Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out Maplecroft's list of the top five per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air paves the way for exciting new possibilities to deal with global warming. These possibilities include genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those carbon dioxide "catchers", said J.A.

February 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists hope to get a clearer picture of how the Earth reacts to carbon dioxide with the launch Tuesday of a new spacecraft designed to collect data on the climate-changing gas. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is set for launch early Tuesday from California and will take about eight million measurements every 16 days for the next two years.

July 6th, 2009 TORONTO - Vast amounts of carbon, about twice as much as contained in the atmosphere, is stored in the Arctic, according to a new study. The amount of carbon in frozen soils, sediments and river deltas raises new concerns over the role of the northern regions as future sources of greenhouse gases.

April 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has shown that for millions of years carbon dioxide (CO2) has been stored safely and naturally in underground water in gas fields saturated with the greenhouse gas, a finding that brings carbon capture and storage a step closer. Some models predict that CO2 would react with rock minerals to form new carbonate minerals, while others suggest that the gas dissolves into the water.