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Collapsing carbon market

...market makes mega-pollution cheap

Europe's system to edge up the cost of emissions and boost green energy has backfired. There isn't much time to rescue it

Carbon credits - what they do for us

P. T. Barnum is attributed with saying "There's a sucker born every minute" although, he, as the source of this quote is in dispute. Were he alive today, I suspect he would abandon the circus business and jump into carbon credits and carbon trading.

Carbon prices at all time low as of - 09 Feb 2009

Carbon price close to record low as European sell-off continues

Experts predict €10 EUAs could represent good deal for long-term investors

 

The price of carbon allowance in the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) was at close to record lows in trading this morning as weak energy commodity prices and a continued sell-off of allowances from heavy industry continued to drive down the price.

Don't print...

...isn't going Green

It is increasingly popular to bash the use of paper. The industry is an easy target as everyone uses paper and the presentation of the industry is laughable (think Dunder Mifflin on The Office).

Despite the many environmentally friendly actions taken by the paper, printing and publishing industries, little is known of these efforts due to a self-inflicted inability to publicize them. Unlike the auto or fuel industries, we don’t spend any money as an industry on effective green promotion.

A Painfull slow Death

As I have stated elsewhere in recent writings, paper grades used primarily for communications will experience a permanent change in demand during the current economic distress. As consumers of all types look for opportunities to delay or permanently reduce expenditures, some will drop the purchase of communications papers products by changing their lifestyle, others will seek alternatives, such as ebook readers or plain old computers to reduce their expenditures.

Issue date: 
January 2009

Can money grow on trees?

There is a new wave of entrepreneurs aiming to get rich by 
saving the rainforests. Richard Lofthouse reports

Ever wanted to get rich by doing absolutely nothing? In a bizarre way that’s what a bunch of new entrepreneurs and large corporations are trying to do. The formula is ridiculously simple: buy up or lease a tract of rainforest, prop up a deckchair and watch it grow. Put a financial price on its mere existence and sell a range of ‘products’ – called ecosystem services – to polluters. If trees could hear, they’d be setting up trade unions.

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