Human rights versus emissions rights: climate justice and the equitable distribution of ecological space.
It is no longer seriously disputed that, in the face of climate change, carbon emissions must be reduced. There is agreement internationally that responsibility for making these reductions should be shared with equitable differentiation. In contemporary debates, however, the question of how responsibilities should be differentiated has been all...

GE Launches New 'Money Earth Rewards' Credit Card that Offsets GHG Emissions.
ENERGY RESOURCE-25 July 2007-GE Launches New 'Money Earth Rewards' Credit Card that Offsets GHG Emissions(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com GE today unveiled the first U.S. credit card dedicated to reducing cardholders' carbon emissions through greenhouse gas emission offsets. The first consumer finance product in GE's ecomagination...

Beacon Hill Roll Call.
Beacon Hill Roll Call, by Bob Katzen, records local senators' votes on two roll calls from the week of Dec. 31 to Jan. 4. There were no roll calls in the House last week. Both Senate roll calls are on proposed amendments to a bill, approved by...

Beacon Hill Roll Call.
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators' votes on two roll calls from the week of Dec. 31 to Jan. 4. There were no roll calls in the House last week. The House and Senate officially convened the 2008 legislative session. Much of the activity was ceremonial,...

GE AES Greenhouse Gas Services Announces 'Rigorous' Standard for New Greenhouse Gas Credit Program.
ENERGY RESOURCE-25 July 2007-GE AES Greenhouse Gas Services Announces 'Rigorous' Standard for New Greenhouse Gas Credit Program(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com GE AES Greenhouse Gas Services, a joint venture between GE Energy Financial Services and AES Corporation, today announced what it describe as a "rigorous and comprehensive standard"...

Repudiation and regret: is the United States sitting out the Kyoto Protocol to its economic detriment?
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE KYOTO PROTOCOL: BACKGROUND AND THE U.S. RESPONSE III. RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IV. EMISSIONS TRADING V. THE CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM VI. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION In early 2001, the Bush Administration withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations...

California leads.
Byline: The Register-Guard Critics of California's historic new plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions are right on one count: The federal government, not individual states, should be leading the fight to slow global warming. But the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress have refused to...

Bank of America Launches $20 Billion Initiative to Encourage Green Business Practices.
ENERGY RESOURCE-6 March 2007-Bank of America Launches $20 Billion Initiative to Encourage Green Business Practices(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Bank of America Corporation today announced a $20 billion, 10-year initiative to encourage development of environmentally sustainable business practices. Under the initiative, Bank of America will emphasize...

Grappling with a climate of change: a warming planet is forcing some carriers and reinsurers to re-examine limits and exclusions to existing policies, and others to rethink some of their products entirely.
In the movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," cities are wiped out by tsunami waves, tomadoes and hurricanes, and much of the planet is transformed into a frozen wasteland as global warming triggers the abrupt onset of a new ice age. Although some of the more catastrophic climate...

Green house, back door: pros and cons of carbon trading exposed in South Africa.
PLUNKED in the middle of an Indian suburb, the Bisasar Road Landfill in Durban, South Africa, spreads the odour of rotting garbage over its surrounding community. It's done so for the past 20 years--each year emitting thousands of tonnes of harmful methane gas. But the stench may turn out...