Mercuria Energy Expands Activities In Carbon Trading

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 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - - NYSE's Bluenext and Chinese-Beijing Environmental Exchange (CBEEX) further strengthen global partnership NYSE's Bluenext and CBEEX announce the development of China's first Voluntary Standard at the first US-China Low Carbon Conference in New York today. Not only does this strengthen the new partnership between CBEEX and Bluenext first announced earlier this summer, but also marks the first step towards a Voluntary system to limit emissions domestically in China.

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 21st, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - The Brattle Group, a global provider of consulting and expert testimony in economics, finance, and regulation, announced today that Drs. Mark Sarro and Jurgen Weiss have joined the firm as principals.

June 7th, 2009 MILTON KEYNES, England - Even the greenest of businesses are unlikely to be able to make informed choices about the energy efficiency of the premises they buy or rent right now, according to new research published today by National Energy Services (NES). In a mystery shopping exercise to check on compliance with European and UK law relating to the energy efficiency of buildings in the commercial property sector, NES discovered that more than 80% of agents it spoke to were unable to provide the mandatory Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for the offices or shops they were marketing for sale or rent.

June 2nd, 2009 WINDSOR, England - Centrica plc, through its British Gas Business division, today announced that it has acquired Energy and Building Management Solutions Limited for a cash consideration of up to GBP3.2 million. The business combines energy management and consulting services with the capability to design, install, maintain and repair building control systems.

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 18th, 2009 BIRMINGHAM, England - Companies Benchmarked on Their Sustainable Business Practices Semplice Energy Limited, leading provider of enterprise CleanTech energy solutions and part of British Gas, a Centrica company, today announced the launch of the Sustainability Challenge Scorecard survey at Sustainability live! 2009, at the NEC, Birmingham. The survey forms the basis of research into how successfully businesses are addressing energy and carbon reduction, and what needs to be done to help organisations set and achieve aggressive carbon reduction targets.

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.

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian sugar industry has the potential to save millions of dollars annually by engaging in carbon credit trading and focussing on ethanol production, a top government official said here Wednesday. 'Given the scale of the sugar enterprises in India, the industry should come up in a big way to encash the potential of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) trading,' Heavy Industries Secretary S.N.

April 20th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Scientists here have succeeded in converting a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide into a green energy source. Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) researchers said they used organocatalysts to help carbon dioxide (CO2) produce methanol, a widely used industrial feedstock and clean-burning biofuel.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Metro, which is the first railway project in the world to be registered for carbon credits by the United Nations, has been certified to have prevented over 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere by reducing its power requirement in three years, an official said Sunday. Registering the Delhi Metro's contribution, the Germany-based validation organization TUVNORD conducted an audit on behalf of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and gave its certificate.

July 10th, 2009 LONDON - The futuristic city to come up on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi will meet its entire energy requirements from renewable sources, producing neither carbon dioxide nor waste. Masdar City is to be constructed on a six square km area, 30 km east of the capital Abu Dhabi.

July 15th, 2009 Britain presents plans to cut emissions, add jobsLONDON — The British government detailed ambitious plans Wednesday to cut carbon emissions substantially by 2020, and said 40 percent of the country's electricity by then would come from renewable sources. The proposal on fighting climate change envisions expansions in wind energy as well as continued use of nuclear power and clean coal.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The worldwide recession might have sent the financial markets in a tizzy, but reports indicate that it is also likely to bring the biggest annual fall in the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 40 years. According to a report by BBC news, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that global CO2 emissions will fall by more than 2 percent during 2009.

July 20th, 2009 Campaigners say EU carbon trading is flawedBRUSSELS — Climate change campaigners claimed Monday that flaws in the European Union's carbon trading program could allow major polluters avoid any real reduction in greenhouse gas emissions during the economic downturn. Cap-and-trade forms the main plank of EU efforts to slash carbon dioxide output by a fifth by 2020.

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.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist of Indian origin is part of an international research team, which has revealed new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage. The scientist in question is Rajeev Ahuja from Uppsala University, US, who set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials.

July 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - There is "no inherent contradiction between poverty eradication and moving towards a low-carbon economy", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday, signalling her government's approach towards India in the area of combating climate change. "The United States fully supports India's efforts to move all its people out of poverty," Clinton said at a news conference here.