Monday, January 22, 2007
Just another day...
Climate Change news agency Point Carbon gives us three headlines for 22/01/07
• The European Commission plans to work with emerging emission trading
schemes in the US, though a direct link will not take place until 2013, an
official at the European Commission said.
• Lack of global leadership from both developed and developing countries
hampers efforts to negotiate an international regime to deal with climate
change after 2012, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• A group of major US manufacturers and power companies together with
environmental organisations issued a joint statement to US lawmakers on
Friday demanding mandatory greenhouse gas reductions in the US through a
cap-and-trade programme.
• The European Commission plans to work with emerging emission trading
schemes in the US, though a direct link will not take place until 2013, an
official at the European Commission said.
• Lack of global leadership from both developed and developing countries
hampers efforts to negotiate an international regime to deal with climate
change after 2012, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• A group of major US manufacturers and power companies together with
environmental organisations issued a joint statement to US lawmakers on
Friday demanding mandatory greenhouse gas reductions in the US through a
cap-and-trade programme.
