Environmental Markets & Commodity Reports
Doha provides gateway to a 2015 global agreement
London, December 2012
The 18th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-18) has come to a close in Doha with a more detailed roadmap to a 2015 global agreement and a renewed Kyoto Protocol. In keeping with recent custom, the negotiations ran over time with a final agreement reached late on Saturday night. The final result failed to produce strong commitments to new binding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. However, Doha ultimately achieved its two overriding goals of keeping the Kyoto Protocol operational as a transitionary measure and laying the path for a more comprehensive international agreement for the post 2020 period to be agreed by 2015.
CME Group Ethanol Outlook Report - Dec 10, 2012
Chicago, 10 December 2012
Senate affirms U.S. military biofuels program – In a big win for the U.S. biofuels industry, the Senate in late November voted to support U.S. military use of biofuels. The Senate in a bipartisan vote of 62-37 voted to strip a provision from the annual Defense Appropriations bill that would have prevented the U.S. military from buying any fuels that cost more than traditional fuels, a measure directly aimed against biofuels. The U.S. military has identified its dependence on petroleum as a national security risk. The military is actively promoting biofuels to diversify its fuel mix. The advanced biofuel industry is depending heavily on the U.S. military for coinvestment in research and pilot projects that will help commercialize advanced biofuels and bring down their cost. The U.S. military is the big customer that the advanced biofuels industry needs to ensure there is demand for its product during and after the commercialization phase.
Environmentally sustainable energy systems
Doha, December 2012
The World Energy Council’s (WEC) global ranking of country energy sustainability performance has revealed that most of the over 90 countries assessed are still far from achieving fully sustainable energy systems.
IETA Unveils Issues Agenda for COP18 in Doha
Doha, 26 November 2012
With the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP 18) commencing this week, IETA unveiled a list of high-priority issues that governments should address in Doha over the next two weeks. “Our Issues Agenda is aimed at a single objective for business,” said Dirk Forrister, CEO of IETA. “We need a future international policy framework that uses carbon markets to stimulate businesses to invest in climate action at the scale of the need. Right now, too much private capital is sidelined, waiting for clearer policy signals from governments.”
GHGs gap widening as nations head to Doha
London, November 2012
Action on climate change needs to be scaled-up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance of keeping a global average temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius this century. The Emissions Gap Report, coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, and released days before the convening of the Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Doha, shows that greenhouse gas emissions levels are now around 14 per cent above where they need to be in 2020.
CCS can compete in low cost, low carbon energy future
London, 21 November 2012
The Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force has today published an interim report confirming that fossil fuel power generation with carbon capture and storage (CCS) has the potential to compete cost-effectively with other low-carbon forms of energy in the 2020s.
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Climate change evident across Europe: urgent need for adaptation
London, 21 November 2012
Climate change is affecting all regions in Europe, causing a wide range of impacts on society and the environment. Further impacts are expected in the future, potentially causing high damage costs, according to the latest assessment published by the European Environment Agency today. The report, ‘Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012’ finds that higher average temperatures have been observed across Europe as well as decreasing precipitation in southern regions and increasing precipitation in northern Europe. The Greenland ice sheet, Arctic sea ice and many glaciers across Europe are melting, snow cover has decreased and most permafrost soils have warmed.
Read more: Climate change evident across Europe: urgent need for adaptation
Large investors call for more decisive climate action
London, 20 November 2012
Groups representing the world’s largest investors today published an open letter addressed to governments of the world’s largest economies calling for a new dialogue on climate change policy in order to avert dangerous climate change and its resulting economic impacts. The letter, announced ahead of international climate negotiations starting on 26th November in Doha, calls for:
Kyoto's CDM registers 5,000th project
Bonn, 15 November 2012
The Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM), the international market-based tool that incentivizes greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries, has registered its 5,000th project. The Los Cocos Wind Farm Project, located in the south-western province of Pedernales in the Dominican Republic, expects to annually generate 74,200 MWh of electricity and displace 54,183 tonnes of CO2 emissions from electricity previously generated at fossil fuel fired power plants.
Report on the state of the European carbon market; 2012
London, 14 November 2012
The European Commission is taking two important steps to address a growing imbalance between supply and demand in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS). As an immediate first step to address the rapid build-up in the surplus of emission allowances, the Commission has proposed to delay the auctioning of 900 million allowances in the third phase of the EU ETS starting next year. The Commission has also adopted a report on the state of the European carbon market which sets out a range of possible structural measures that can be taken to tackle the surplus.
Read more: Report on the state of the European carbon market; 2012
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