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...

All smoke and mirrors? Carbon trading in Australia: Peter Christoff applies six tests for the proposed carbon trading schemes.
Climate change is high on the political agenda in the run-up to the 2007 election, carbon trading is all the buzz, and politicians are trading 'hot air' in increasing volumes as the year wears on. John Howard opposed carbon emissions trading until the end of last year....

THE Greening of Carbon Trade.
Creative research in climate change is promoting the exchange of gas-emission credits between countries, while conserving precious forests KEN MacDicken likes to show visitors his grandfather's spear. It is quite a piece of work: an authentic Filipino spearhead lashed to a broom handle. The elder MacDicken got...

EcoSecurities, ITR Team Up on Methane-Based Carbon Credits.
ENERGY RESOURCE-10 January 2008-EcoSecurities, ITR Team Up on Methane-Based Carbon Credits(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Carbon credit company EcoSecurities and Intrepid Technology and Resources (ITR), a specialist in the development of biofuel production projects, have completed an agreement for the transfer of carbon credits from agricultural-based methane gas...

Dear EarthTalk: my global warming guilt is starting to catch up with me, and I've heard that I can buy "carbon offsets" to help make things right. How do they work?
Carbon offsets are monies that consumers and businesses pay voluntarily to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions they generate directly by driving, flying, running the air conditioning and otherwise using non-renewable energy. Companies and nonprofit groups that sell offsets use the dollars generated to fund alternative energy and other...

Washington outlook.
Climate change has emerged as a major policy issue this year, and the U.S. Senate has shown strong leadership in moving forward a sensible domestic framework to address it. Reports earlier this year from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as efforts by former...

Carbon Credit Environmental Services Launches Certification Program.
SciTech21-6 February 2008-Carbon Credit Environmental Services Launches Certification Program(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Carbon Credit Environmental Services has applied for an Intellectual Property Patent to assist business and corporations in assessing their GHG, CO2 emissions with a certification being issued to them as a "carbon credit." ...

Medical Discoveries Inc. Changes Name to Global Clean Energy Holding.
ENERGY RESOURCE-6 February 2008-Medical Discoveries Inc. Changes Name to Global Clean Energy Holding(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Medical Discoveries Inc. today announced that, effective immediately, it has changed its name to Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. The company said the new name reflects its focus on...

Energy efficiency in regulated and deregulated markets.
1. INTRODUCTION AND THESIS The efficient use of electricity is a moral and environmental concern of contested economic validity. Opponents argue that the pursuit of energy efficiency is the pursuit of economic inefficiency. Proponents counter that the pursuit of economic efficiency in the electricity sector...

The cost of cap and trade.
How expensive would the cap-and-trade measures (which limit each industry's C[O.sub.2] emissions and allow them to sell any emission allowances that they don't use) of the Climate Stewardship Act be if that measure becomes law? One way to tell may be to revisit an analysis of the Kyoto Accord,...