Two Austrian companies signed agreements with Bulgaria April 25 to modernize the country's hydropower plants, in a project that will be partly financed under the Kyoto Protocol. VA Tech Hydro GMBH, ...

Over 160 nations, including the U.S., signed the UN-brokered protocol, but only 30 countries have since ratified it, none of them industrialized. President Bush recently announced that the U.S. is ...

Vol. 12, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: National Climate Policies: Papers from the International Symposium, Groningen, September 2000 (2001), pp. 487-498 (12 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. The ...

14 November 2003 – Only a few weeks after the signing of €50m ($59m) supply contracts between VA Tech Hydro and Bulgarian state electricity company Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania EAD (NEK), today, ...

A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change describes how some Russian projects operating under the auspices of Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation mechanism have increased waste greenhouse ...

The emissions trading program, called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), began its operation in December 2003 and is one part of the Kyoto protocol. Under the protocol, “Annex 1 countries” ...

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol for promoting technology transfer and investment from industrialized countries to the developing world for projects ...

The Kyoto Protocol went into force a full 15 years ago today—and yet, the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. On Sunday, 15 years will have passed since the Kyoto Protocol was ratified on ...

Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson are researchers with Carbon Trade Watch (www.carbontradewatch.org), a project of the Transnational Institute. The headlines generated by the carbon trading mechanisms ...

For further information contact: April Palmerlee, Director of Communications 434-9544 "By making it clear that the United States won’t pretend to meet the Kyoto limits, the Bush administration has, ...

The carbon market is still in its infancy but as private sector investors are discovering this niche as uncorrelated performance driver, the dynamic is shaping up. The Kyoto Protocol set the framework ...

REUTERS - Nearly 200 countries will meet in Doha, Qatar, next week to work for a new climate deal to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet, raising sea levels ...