TFS Energy, a leading interdealer broker and subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere Tradition, today announced it officially launched TFS Green Finance, a division that provides clients with a comprehensive range of merchant banking and brokerage solutions for the environmental markets. Read more »

Destination Resorts Hawaii offers a new environmentally friendly Hawaii vacation special that gives a $250 carbon credit with each green vacation booked. (PRWeb Feb 20, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb706093.htm Read more »

KUALA LUMPUR: Aseambankers Malaysia Bhd is weighing various options to expand its investment banking business in markets where its parent Malayan Banking Bhd is already present. Read more »

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's government is considering introducing a cap-and-trade system to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions for companies and encourage trading in carbon credits. Read more »

The British Columbian government said it plans to impose a comprehensive carbon tax, dismissing fears that the fees to fight climate change will hurt the economy. Read more »

KUALA LUMPUR: As the world's second largest crude palm oil producer, Malaysia has great potential to reap revenue from certified emission reduction (CER), or carbon credits. Read more »

ECOSYS Capital Advisors, LLC (ECA), a Connecticut-based carbon emissions trading firm, executed the first carbon allowance compliance trade in the United States last week. As a follow-up, ECA is actively pursuing more compliance-market trading opportunities, sees tremendous potential in this market. (PRWeb Feb 16, 2008) Read the full story at ... Read more »

ECOSYS Capital Advisors, LLC (ECA), a Connecticut-based carbon emissions trading firm, executed the first carbon allowance compliance trade in the United States last week. As a follow-up, ECA is actively pursuing more compliance-market trading opportunities, sees tremendous potential in this market. Read more »

Japan will experiment with a system to enable carbon credit trading between power companies at the Japan Electric Power Exchange as early as year's end in an attempt to meet its Kyoto Protocol... Read more ... Read more »

India's carbon market is growing faster than even information technology, bio technology and BPO sectors as 850 projects with an investment of a whopping Rs 65,000 crore are in pipeline. Read more »

TOKYO — Japan will experiment with a system to enable carbon credit trading between power companies at the Japan Electric Power Exchange as early as by the end of this year in an attempt to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations, industry ministry officials said Friday. Read more »

Japan Today - TOKYO — Japan will experiment with a system to enable carbon credit trading between power companies at the Japan Electric Power Exchange as early as by the end of this year in an attempt to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations, industry ministry ... Read more »

Industry Standard - The EPA and Energystar are working on data center and server recommendations, along with user rebates and carbon credit programs." It will be these types of reward and credit systems that will most likely proliferate, rather than systems that ... Read more »

Engineering News - A carbon credit is a tradeable permit scheme which is an incentive for countries and businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the air. Developed countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol have set quotas on the levels of greenhouse gas ... Read more »

Honey products company Comvita has entered an agreement with the aim of gaining income from carbon credits and manuka honey supply from reverting poor farmland to manuka bush. Read more »

dBusinessNews.com - For the SōL this amounts to approximately ½ of a carbon credit (a carbon credit is equal to the emission of one metric ton of carbon dioxide). SōL’s CO2 offset was certified by an independent third party: The Carbon Credit Company LLC – the U ... Read more »

The board of directors of Planktos Corp. (Pink Sheets:PLKT) today announced that the company has been forced to indefinitely postpone its ocean fertilization efforts once intended to restore marine plant life and generate ecological offsets for the global carbon credit market. Read more »

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Chinese steel maker Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp said it has signed a carbon credit agreement with European Carbon Fund (ECF) and Camco International Co Ltd involving about 1.3 mln tons of carbon dioxide equivalent under the clean development mechanism set up by the Kyoto Protocol. Read more »

Vancouver Sun - A new Pacific Carbon Trust will foster economic growth from new opportunities in carbon credit trading and carbon offsets. It will invest in made-in-B.C. offset projects that produce emissions reductions that are permanent, measurable, verifiable, and ... Read more »

Editor’s Note: This report in an excerpt of an interview printed in the premiere issue of Talk Business Quarterly, a new magazine published by Talk Business. Talk Business is a content partner with the Times Record. Read more »

Despite some people calling the race to the Alberta Legislature no contest in the Lakeland area, Premier Ed Stelmach still made a stop in Bonnyville last Friday. Read more »

A seminar on energy sustainability on Feb. 25 will feature local speakers in a panel discussion about how alternative energy systems are being used in Northeastern Colorado. Read more »

Incentives around alternative energy such as accelerated allowances may be addressed during the Budget next week Wednesday, according to director in indirect tax at Deloitte, Duane Newman. Read more »

Australian IT - The carbon credit value is determined by the amount of carbon emissions produced over the lifetime of the printer said HP South Pacific environment manager Annukka Dickens. "For example, a black and white LaserJet printer which handles 32 pages per ... Read more »

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has become the first municipal body in the state as well as in the country which will be able to avail carbon credits . Read more »