Average carbon dioxide emissions, from new cars sold in the EU, fell around 5 % in 2009, the most important annual drop ever posted.
read more... 11/11/2010
The Czech government proposed a 32% tax on carbon credits on Tuesday that power producers are set to receive in 2011 and 2012, in order to limit price hikes resulting from a solar energy boom.
read more... 04/11/2010
The Netherlands is permitted to give state aid to a Franco-German project to capture greenhouse gas emissions from a power station and bury them under the North Sea, according to the European Union's regulator of competition.
read more... 29/10/2010
The European Commission revised up the limit on greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industry it will apply in 2013, announcing on Friday, a level of 2,039,152,882 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is 5.8% higher than the provisional level of 1.927 billion set by the Commission in July.
read more... 25/10/2010
Great Britain plans to finance four carbon capture and sequestration projects (CCS) by 2020, as consequence of massive gas emissions for last years.
read more... 14/10/2010