http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/ en-gb Fri, 24 May 2013 01:16:16 Copyright(c) Carbon News 2013 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/images/carbonnews.gif http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/ New Zealand scientist and bioenergy pioneer Dr Sean Simpson has been honoured twice this week. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6703 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6703 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:00:00 Dr Sean Simpson ... went global. European Union lawmakers have backed a Commission plan to suspend for a year a law that would make all airlines using EU airports pay for their carbon emissions. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6641 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6641 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:00:00 Air New Zealand has been named a finalist in the 2013 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, which recognise sustainable tourism best-practice in businesses and at destinations. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6582 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6582 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:00:00 People who want to have an effect on climate change would be better to give up red meat and changing lightbulbs than to stop taking flights, says a new study. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6575 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6575 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:00:00 Airlines profited up to 1.36 billion euros last year by passing "imaginary" costs from the European Union Emissions Trading System on to consumers, says a new study. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6562 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6562 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:00:00 A team of New Zealand researchers say that biofuels can be produced sustainably and economically from crops grown on the margins of paddocks. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6557 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6557 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:00:00 Elephant grass ... multi-purpose crop. More than 35 industry partners will work together to explore the future of Australia's electricity system. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6527 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6527 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:00:00 The Australian experience since the July launch of its emissions trading scheme had proved positive, a senior diplomat has told corporate leaders meeting in Brussels. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6480 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6480 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:00:00 Upgrading old laptops is more energy-efficient than purchasing newer, greener models, according to German scientists. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6390 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6390 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:00:00 The European Commission will introduce an emissions monitoring system in early 2013, in a bid to curb the environmental footprint left by the shipping industry. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6379 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6379 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:00:00 European Union officials are privately alarmed at the chilling effect that a Mitt Romney win in the US presidential election could have on global climate talks, says the EurActiv agency. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6362 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6362 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:00:00 Mitt Romney ... climate change doubts. Volunteers from Air New Zealand's Green Team are rolling up their sleeves for conservation by helping with restoration projects across the country this weekend. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6334 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6334 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:00:00 German researchers have unveiled evidence suggesting European Commission claims that locally produced rapeseed biodiesel cut back at least 38 per cent of greenhouse gases compared with fossil fuels,  are unfounded. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6228 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6228 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:00:00 Airbus is throwing its support behind what it says is the largest land resortation project in the world. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6144 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6144 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:00:00 Travel and tourism leaders are calling for a new enlightened framework for sustainable tourism in a ground-breaking collection of essays compiled by academics at Melbourne's Victoria University academics. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6140 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6140 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:00:00 Meetings between EU and Chinese officials aimed at helping Beijing to draft plans for its own carbon emissions market are "increasing in intensity," says the union's chief climate negotiator, Artur Runge-Metzger. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6120 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6120 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:00:00 Projects that cut carbon emissions by a total of 1.7 million tonnes a year and produced $600 million worth of energy efficiency were recognised this week in the annual Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Awards. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6093 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6093 Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 European Union nations should pledge that funds from paying for airline emissions will help poor countries to deal with global warming, the bloc's climate chief said this week. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6075 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6075 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:00 Bringing new insect silk products to the global market is the focus of a partnership announced by Australian research agency CSIRO and global life science industry supplier Lonza. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6008 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=6008 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:00:00 The European Union has hinted that it hopes to avoid levying its controversial carbon-emissions tax on flights from China, if Beijing introduces its own carbon-trading scheme to cover aviation. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5947 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5947 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:00:00 An Asian airline is threatening to scrap an order for 10 Airbus jets over a European Union carbon charge imposed on global airlines. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5912 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5912 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:00:00 The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could soon find itself butting heads with Brussels over how best to tackle emissions from international shipping, analysts say. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5913 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5913 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:00:00 New Zealand is staying out of a row over a requirement for airlines flying in and out of Europe to pay for their carbon emissions. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5906 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5906 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:00:00 A big event in the future of the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme will be the introduction of the Australian carbon tax flexible pricing period in 2015, Carbon Market Solutions says. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5904 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5904 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:00:00 Officials from 29 countries have met in Moscow to try to put pressure on the European Union to abandon a law which requires international airlines to pay for carbon emissions. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5887 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5887 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:00:00 The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme has now included aviation in its emissions reduction sectors in a move fraught with controversy and disagreement. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5893 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5893 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:00:00 China has banned domestic airlines from participating in the European Union's emissions trading scheme and from using the scheme to increase fares or add other fees. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5862 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5862 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 After a tumultuous 2011, carbon market outlook for 2012 is foggier than expected. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5833 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5833 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 The implementation of a carbon tax on airlines flying into Europe is thought to be  prompting some to consider opting in to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5827 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5827 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:00 New Zealand gas fermentation company LanzaTech has won an American government contract to make aviation fuel from waste products. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5783 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5783 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:00 New Zealand's LanzaTech has done a deal to that will provide Virgin Atlantic with low-carbon aviation fuel. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5674 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5674 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:00:00 Sir Richard Branson ... exciting technology. The increasing demand for ecotourism can play a vital role in saving endangered forests, a United Nations-backed partnership believes. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5646 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5646 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:00 The Gillard Government has introduced a package of bills to the House of Representatives which it says will allow Australia to seize the economic and job opportunities that will come as the world tackles climate change and shifts to a clean energy... http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5614 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5614 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:00:00 A consortium of Australian businesses plans to use eucalypt trees to produce aviation biofuel from a pilot production unit operating by 2012. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5592 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5592 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:00:00 A small company in Mangere Bridge has caught the eye of ex-Ecostore CEO and internationally qualified business leader Mitch Cuevas. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5437 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5437 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:00:00 Establishing an Australian and New Zealand aviation biofuels industry is a viable proposition, according to scientists and the region's major industry players. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5396 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5396 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:00:00 Cathay Pacific Airways has released its latest Sustainable Development Report outlining the various sustainability measures undertaken by the airline last year. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5401 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5401 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:00:00 The European Union says that it is possible to raise the huge amounts of money needed to address climate change in developing countries. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5311 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5311 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:30:00 Connie Hedegaard ... well on track. China, the world's biggest emitter, continues to power ahead in the green revolution, and has topped the Pew Environment Group's clean energy investment rankings for 2010. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5312 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5312 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:30:00 Jill Duggan, who has been instrumental in the set up of the European ETS, spoke to a number of New Zealand audiences this week, offering some interesting insights into the future of emissions trading, CMS reports. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5257 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5257 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:00:00 A New Zealand company that started with an idea to turn algae into fuel has been invited to contribute to the Davos round of trade negotiations. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5089 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5089 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:30:00 Nick Gerritsen ... scarey information. Negotiators must begin UN climate talks with far more urgency and resolve following a year of weather-related disasters, record temperatures, flooding and rising sea levels, international agency Oxfam says. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5024 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=5024 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:00:00 New Zealand's LanzaTech is to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on converting some of LanzaTech's products to drop-in jet fuel. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4981 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4981 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:00:00 The European Union claims the way is now clear for its plans to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 2012 following an agreement at a meeting in Montreal. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4881 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4881 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:00 UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has urged the air transport industry to press on with curbs on emissions, underlining that it held "critical keys" to tackling global warming. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4819 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4819 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:00:00 Wealthy nations' pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be made farcical by loopholes in the UN climate change treaty put forward in Copenhagen last year. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4717 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4717 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:00:00 Canadian researchers hope to stem the global IT industry's rampant output of greenhouse gas emissions by perfecting a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4708 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4708 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:00:00 An independent watchdog group has advised the UK government to increase investment in low-carbon technologies in order to boost green, economic growth and to achieve the target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4683 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4683 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:00 A new Carbon Neutral Program is to be implemented by the Australian Carbon Trust, the Government has announced. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4650 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4650 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:00:00 American airlines have begun legal action to try to exempt themselves from a European carbon emissions trading scheme due to come into force in 2012. http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4557 http://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=4557 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:00:00