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Last week, the International Maritime Organization, hammered out an agreement to ratchet down certain polluting emissions from dirty ship fuel, and promised to look for a way to reduce CO2 emissions in big ships by next year.

The world’s shipping industry plans to limit its growing carbon dioxide emissions by taxing marine fuels and signing up to a new climate change deal in moves likely to raise transport costs for raw materials.

missions of carbon dioxide rose slightly last year among businesses participating in the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), analysts said on Thursday, contrary to an expected drop.

While welcoming last week’s agreement at the IMO marine environment protection committee to reduce limits in emission control areas to 1% by 2010, the owners’ association said it would ultimately have “counterproductive” consequences on the environmen

Hytruck richt zich op het ontwikkelen en produceren van klimaatneutrale, nul-emissie voertuigen en kiest daarbij nadrukkelijk voor de energiebron van de toekomst t.w. waterstof.

Japan has the most detailed and comprehensive publicly-available dataset for carbon emissions of its kind, providing facility-level greenhouse gas emissions of more than 14,000 sources.

Amerikaanse lessen voor rekeningrijden uit New York…

WSJ: All problems pale before what could be its biggest hurdle now: Coal is in demand everywhere and gets more expensive all the time.

Een expositie in Wenen van homo-erotische schilderijen van Jezus en zijn apostelen, van de hand van de tachtigjarige kunstenaar Alfred Hrdlicka, heeft gelovigen van hun stuk gebracht. Volgens de directeur moet kunst nu eenmaal debat uitlokken.

Three Deutsche Bank analysts drew this unexpected conclusion based on Project Better Place’s business plan for an electric-car recharging grid: The electric car scheme is viable in America, too.

Elektrische autos aan het grid…