Business Edition
nr 97
April 24, 2008
Special:
"Not even certification schemes assure biofuels sustainability"
A new report by Friends of the Earth argues that attempts to use sustainability certification schemes to control biofuel production across the world are ‘bound to fail’. Read more
Editorial: Biofuels sustainability criteria now
Another call yesterday to suspend Europe’s 10% biofuels target came from Friends of the Earth. ‘The once dearest solution to transport emissions by NGOs and the media has now become the evil’ Michael Mann, the Agriculture Commission spokesman in Brussels told me. He has been dealing with hundreds of phonecalls asking not whether biofuels are bad, but how bad they actually are. Read more
DG TREN Report: “EU Energy/Environment policy should go further”
An update report produced by the EU Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (DG TREN), has concluded that Europe should step up several fields of its Energy/Environmental policy and accelerate its implementation in order to overcome existing challenges. Read more
GreenPrices Market Monitor April 2008
The GreenPrices News Desk regularly reports on market developments, prices and recent trades of green certificates in Europe. This week: Prices of Guarantees of Origin (GoO) traded on a voluntary basis, actual prices and volumes of the Swedish Elcertificates, and additionally the situation on various national green certificates markets in Belgium, Italy, Poland and UK. Read more
Combined Nordic certificate market would save 1 billion € a year
Compared to a system with separated national markets, a unified Nordic-wide certificate market for green energy would save about 25% on the costs of supporting renewable energy. Read more
German Minister criticises Bush plans on climate change
Germany’s Environmental Minister Sigmar Gabriel has strongly criticised Bush’s new greenhouse gas emissions goal calling it a “Neanderthal speech': losership instead of leadership.” Other reactions regarding the Bush plan to stop US emissions growth by 2025 were mixed, ranging from ‘welcomed’ to ‘disappointing.’ Read more
Denmark minister rules out Nordic certificate market
Denmark is not planning to join the Swedish-Norwegian talks on a common green certificate market, the country’s climate and energy minister said recently. Read more
IEA bets on CCS to lower fossil-fuel emissions
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) would be needed to meet the most ambitious IPCC scenario of cutting emissions by 50% by 2050, according to Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Read more
EEA: EU reduced its emissions during 2006
Preliminary data released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) show greenhouse gas emissions continued their downward trend in the European Union during 2006. The report show EU-15 countries emissions are now 2.7% below 1990 levels and on the way to meet the Kyoto target of – 8 % as compared to 1990. Read more
US cap-and-trade will not affect economic growth
A new study released by the Environment Defense Fund has found the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US through a cap-and-trade policy is ‘small, even difficult to measure against projected economic growth.’ Read more
In Brief
- “CCS is a disputed solution” - Piebalgs
- E.ON plans a 300 MW offshore wind farm in UK
- Netherlands to host CCS international event
- Suzlon to provide 200 MW of wind energy to China
- Americas’ largest solar PV plant starts construction
- RWE Innogy and Stadtwerke cooperate on renewables
- Dutch new buildings halve energy use within 8 years
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