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E.P.A. Rules on Emissions at Existing Coal Plants Might Give States Leeway

Four years ago, Congress rejected the idea of a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by putting a price on them. But the plan announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to regulate emissions from existing coal-fired power plants could foster creation of such a system, at least on a regional basis, and a push for renewable energy and energy efficiency in states that so far have embraced neither.

Trading Halt Shows UN Carbon System in Jeopardy: Energy Markets

An unprecedented freeze in United Nations carbon trading is fanning speculation the five-year-old market designed to combat greenhouse-gas emissions in poor countries is in danger of becoming superfluous.

Not a single UN Certified Emission Reduction, or CER, changed hands on July 22 and July 23, according to data from ICE Futures Europe, keeping the market on course for the lowest monthly aggregate volume since March 2008. The 14.3 million tons of offsets bought and sold this month compares with the record 211 million tons traded in October and an average 52 million over the past 12 months.

Crollano le emissioni di CO2

Emissioni di gas serra delle imprese italiane basse come non mai. Il dato di uno studio di EcoWay (basato sul Registro Unico Europeo elaborato dal servizio Carbon Market Data) dice che lo scorso anno le emissioni di CO2 sono state le più basse a partire dal 2005, l’anno di entrata in vigore dei limiti imposti da Bruxelles: si sono infatti attestate a 164 milioni di tonnellate, contro i 225 milioni del 2005.