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Informing NGOs, MEPs, Member States, the European Commission and the media. Issue 128, June 2008.
With global demand for energy continuing to rise despite crude oil reaching an all-time high of US$135 per barrel in May 2008, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has stated that the EU should “not expect too much” from carbon pricing and other market-based instruments. Since 2004, for example, European consumers have been paying a ‘shadow carbon price’ of approximately 85 per tonne of CO2 in the form of higher taxes on vehicle fuels, but the higher prices have had little impact on consumer behaviour. “We should not leave everything to the market,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, echoing Nicholas Stern’s comment that climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure the world has ever seen.1

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/02trade.html

By JAD MOUAWAD

Some of the most powerful corporate leaders in America have been  meeting regularly with leading environmental groups in a conference  room in downtown Washington for over two years to work on proposals  for a national policy to limit carbon emissions.

Salam Pembebasan,

Hari ini kawan - kawan gabungan dari beberapa elemen di Surabaya melakukan aksi penolakan kenaikan harga BBM dan harga kebutuhan pokok. dalam aksi penolakan kenaikan harga BBM tersebut polisi menyerang massa aksi dan membubarkan paksa aksi pada saat massa aksi sedang membakar poster SBY - JK. Polisi bersenjatakan pentungan dan senapan semi otomatis SS-1 menyerang dan memukul massa aksi. Polisi menangkap dan menghajar empat orang kawam sebelum diangkut dengan mobil Polisi. Sementara sedikitnya lima orang kawan terluka dan sempat dilarikan ke Rumah Sakit.
 

UNFCCC has neither the mechanism to credibly assess the projects, nor the will to ensure that only eligible projects get credits.
 

Climate change is the buzz word for everyone these days and one of the most important efforts of the world in tackling this problem is supposed to be the projects taken up under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The controversial 192 MW Allain Duhangan hydropower project (ADP) (under construction in Himachal Pradesh) is the largest among all the hydropower projects from all over the world registered to get credits under CDM. It is also slated to get the largest number of credits among all the registered hydropower projects, at around 4.94 million CERs (Certified Emission Reduction credits). At the current market rate of around $16 per CER, the project is slated to get around $ 75 M for reducing the impact of climate change.