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Carbon tax – part of broader plan to cap power price hikes.
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
A new Carbon Capture and Storage plan to be projected in the Netherlands
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 EU limit on greenhouse gas emissions increased by 5.8%
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 use CCS technology
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
U.K. in becoming more environment responsible.
The institution of civil engineers (ICE) released a report called State Of The Nation – Infrastructure 2010 which shows that the U.K. has renewable energy supply but need to increase efficiency and speed up the up-scaling of green technologies in order to draw carbon emissions down.
read more... 12/10/2010