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  1. forum rang 10 voda 10 december 2010 23:33
    Compromis over Kyoto mogelijk in Cancún
    10 december 2010, 23:22 | ANP
    CANCUN (ANP) - Het lijkt erop dat Japan en Rusland op de laatste onderhandelingsdag op de VN-klimaattop in Mexico minder uitgesproken tegen een verlenging van het Kyotoprotocol zijn dan zij eerder stelden. Daardoor zou het belangrijkste struikelblok om te komen tot enkele afspraken, zijn weggenomen.

    In de meest recente concepttekst staat dat de landen ,,overeenkomen geen gat te laten ontstaan tussen de eerste en de tweede periode van afspraken.'' Volgens gastland Mexico reflecteert het document ,,de huidige status van de onderhandelingen''.

    Door deze constructie is het mogelijk om verder te praten over het Kyotoprotocol, dat in 2012 afloopt. Tegelijkertijd zorgt het ervoor voor dat landen vooralsnog geen nieuwe toezeggingen hoeven te doen over het terugdringen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Daar kunnen dan later nog afspraken over worden gemaakt.

  2. forum rang 10 voda 14 december 2010 16:32
    Nederland nog ver weg van CO2-doelen
    14 december 2010, 10:31 | ANP
    AMSTERDAM (AFN) - KPN, Shell en Philips scoren het best in het beperken van de uitstoot van het broeikasgas CO2. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van het Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) onder de grootste beursgenoteerde Nederlandse ondernemingen. De resultaten werden dinsdag bekendgemaakt in Amsterdam.

    Het CDP is een internationale organisatie zonder winstoogmerk, die in Nederland samenwerkt met ING en met aviesbureau Accenture. Sinds 2007 wordt al bijgehouden in hoeverre de grote ondernemingen openheid geven over hun maatregelen om de uitstoot van broeikasgas terug te dringen. Dit jaar is er voor het eerst ook een beoordeling over de prestaties. Daaruit komt naar voren, dat Nederlandse bedrijven niet op koers liggen om de milieudoelstellingen van de overheid te halen.

    Het onderzoek is gehouden onder de vijftig grootse bedrijven met een notering aan de AEX. Van hen namen er 31 deel aan het onderzoek en dat is één onderneming minder dan een jaar eerder.

  3. forum rang 10 voda 21 januari 2011 16:24
    Beveiliging CO2-markt beter
    21 januari 2011, 7:57 uur | FD.nl
    Door: Jeroen Bos en Han Dirk Hekking

    De Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit (NEa) gaat de beveiliging van haar website voor transacties met emissierechten verder opvoeren. Dat heeft plaatsvervangend directeur Harm van de Wetering van de NEa gisteren gezegd.

    Woensdag besloot de Europese Commissie om transacties met emissierechten in nationale CO2-registers zeker een week stil te leggen. Aanleiding voor die ingreep is de diefstal via hackers van 470.000 emissierechten van de rekening van een handelaar in Tsjechië.

    etc.

    www.fd.nl/artikel/21252172/beveiligin...
  4. forum rang 10 voda 24 januari 2011 16:16
    Oil company BP predicts Copenhagen emissions targets will be missed as energy demand grows
    By ROBERT BARR
    Associated Press
    425 words
    19 January 2011
    10:18
    Associated Press Newswires
    APRS
    English
    (c) 2011. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.


    LONDON (AP) - Carbon emissions will continue rising for the next two decades, climbing 20 percent
    over 2005 levels by 2020, unless governments take stronger action to ease energy demand and boost
    green technologies, BP PLC said Wednesday in a survey.


    BP's projections, which see strong demand for fossil fuels from energy-hungry emerging economies
    like China, imply the targets agreed at the UN's 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen would be missed.


    Emissions are likely to increase by 1.2 percent a year until 2030, lower than the 1.9 percent rate
    of the previous 20 years, the report said. It said that emissions from the OECD countries -- the
    industrialized West -- were expected to decline, but not enough to offset rising demand elsewhere.


    More aggressive policies by governments -- including carbon pricing, cutting coal consumption by 23
    percent and increasing renewable fuel consumption by 33 percent -- could produce a gradual reduction
    in emissions starting in 2020, said the report prepared by BP's chief economist, Christof Ruehl.


    But that would still fall very short of the Copenhagen target to keep the Earth's average
    temperature from rising two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the levels that existed
    before nations began industrializing in the late 18th century. That would be no more than 1.3
    degrees Celsius above today's average temperatures.


    Even with stronger policy, BP said emissions by 2030 would be around 33 billion tonnes (36.4 billion
    U.S. tons) of CO2 per year, more than the Copenhagen target closer to 24 billion tonnes.


    "We are not as optimistic as others about progress in reducing carbon emissions," BP's chief
    executive, Bob Dudley, said at a briefing.


    "But that doesn't mean that we oppose such progress," he said, noting that BP had been calling for
    governments to impose a carbon price.


    BP projected that demand for primary energy -- that is, raw fuels like oil or coal -- will grow by
    1.7 percent a year until 2030; non-OECD consumption is expected to be 2.6 percent a year. OECD
    demand was projected to average 0.3 percent per year in the same period, with the rate actually
    declining after 2020.


    OPEC's share of oil production is expected to rise to 46 percent by 2030, the highest level since
    1977.


    BP's Energy Outlook, previously an annual internal report, was released to the public for the first
    time on Wednesday.
  5. forum rang 10 voda 4 februari 2011 15:31
    Met recht "luchthandel". Niet te geloven...

    CO2-markt wil regels gestolen rechten
    Meeste spotmarkten blijven dicht tot Europa met oplossing komt voor ontvreemde emissierechten
    4 februari 2011 | Het Financieele Dagblad
    Door: Bos, J.

    Meeste spotmarkten blijven dicht tot Europa met oplossing komt voor ontvreemde emissierechten
    Jeroen Bos

    Amsterdam

    De meeste Europese spotmarkten voor de handel in CO2-emissierechten blijven voorlopig gesloten. De betrokken beursbedrijven wachten tot de Europese Commissie met een oplossing komt voor de omgang met gestolen emissierechten. Die verschilt nu nog per lidstaat.

    Directe aanleiding is een serie cyberaanvallen op CO2-registers onder meer in Tsjechië en Roemenië. Daarbij werden vorige maand twee miljoen rechten ontvreemd met een waarde van euro 28 mln.

    Op last van de Europese Commissie werden daarop alle Europese CO2-registers gesloten. Brussel eiste betere beveiliging van de registers, waarin de eigendomsstatus van de rechten wordt bijgehouden. Inmiddels hebben de registers van Nederland, Groot-Brittannië, Duitsland, Frankrijk en Slowakije aangetoond hun beveiliging op orde te hebben. Zij mogen daarom vandaag weer open.

    Door het sluiten van de registers kwam de spothandel op CO2-beurzen stil te liggen. Verkochte rechten konden niet geleverd worden. Spothandel zou nu weer kunnen beginnen, maar de meeste beurzen - uitzondering is het Franse BlueNext - houden hun deuren vooralsnog dicht. Zij willen eerst weten wat de status van de gestolen rechten is en hoe ermee zal worden omgegaan als een partij zulke rechten onwetend in handen krijgt.

    etc.

    www.fd.nl/artikel/21354301/co2-markt-...
  6. forum rang 10 voda 14 februari 2011 21:12
    Geen CO2-opslag in noorden van het land
    14 februari 2011, 21:06 | ANP
    DEN HAAG (ANP) - De omstreden plannen van opslag van CO2 in lege gasvelden in het noorden van het land zijn van de baan. Het kabinet kiest in plaats daarvan voor de opslag van het broeikasgas onder zee. Dat heeft minister Maxime Verhagen (Economische Zaken) maandag bekendgemaakt.

    Het vorige kabinet had drie lege aardgasvelden (Boerakker en Sebaldeburen op de grens van Groningen en Friesland en Eleveld bij Assen in Drenthe) aangewezen voor opslag. Het besluit van Verhagen om hiervan af te zien, is een grote meevaller voor tegenstanders daarvan.

    Het kabinet mikt nu op een demonstratieproject onder zee. Momenteel wordt er in de regio Rijnmond gewerkt aan een voorstel hiervoor. Daarnaast zijn er volgens Verhagen nog enkele ,,interessante'' voorstellen ingediend. De minister heeft de Tweede Kamer een brief gestuurd over het besluit.

  7. forum rang 10 voda 7 maart 2011 21:19
    Oxides; Bayer starts pilot plant for plastic manufacturing with CO2
    822 words
    11 March 2011
    Energy Weekly News
    ENRGWK 45 English
    © Copyright 2011 Energy Weekly News via VerticalNews.com

    2011 MAR 11 - (VerticalNews.com) -- Using carbon dioxide as a new raw
    material:

    High-ranking representatives attend the initiation ceremony in Leverkusen

    Leverkusen, - Bayer is taking a new direction in the production of
    high-quality plastics with the help of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the energy sector. A pilot plant has come on stream at Chempark Leverkusen to trial the new process on a technical scale. The plant produces a chemical
    precursor into which CO2 is incorporated and then processed into
    polyurethanes that are used in many everyday items. As a result, CO2 - a
    waste gas and key contributor to climate change - can now be recycled and
    used as a raw material and substitute for petroleum.

    The innovative process is the result of the "Dream Production" project; a
    collaboration between industry and science. Bayer is working on the project with the energy company RWE, which supplies the CO2 used in the process.
    Other project partners are RWTH Aachen University and the CAT Catalytic
    Center, which is run jointly by the university and Bayer. The researchers
    recently achieved a break-through in laboratory-scale catalysis technology
    which makes it possible to put CO2 to efficient use, for the first time.

    "There is an opportunity to establish Germany as a market leader for these
    technologies and secure ourselves a leading role in a competitive
    international environment," said Bayer Board of Management member Dr.
    Wolfgang Plischke on Thursday, when he addressed representatives from the
    media, government and science in Leverkusen. "The inauguration of this
    pilot plant is another milestone in a long line of Bayer projects that have used innovative technologies to develop sustainable production processes."

    The new process helps to boost sustainability in a number of different
    ways. For example, carbon dioxide may offer an alternative to petroleum,
    which has until now been the chemical sector's main source of the key
    element carbon. Polyurethanes themselves also help to reduce energy
    consumption and protect the climate. When used to insulate buildings from
    cold and heat, they can save approximately 70 times more energy than is
    used in their production.

    Support from federal and state authorities

    On the occasion of the opening ceremony for the pilot plant, North
    Rhine-Westphalia's Minister for Innovation, Science and Research, Svenja
    Schulze, said that the project focused on a "very specific, highly
    innovative solution that extended from basic research to late-stage
    testing." She added that the project is an example of successful
    cooperation between industry and universities on a central climate policy
    issue.

    The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is - together with Bayer - supporting
    the CAT Catalytic Center. The "Dream Production" project is receiving
    federal funding amounting to approximately EUR 5 million. Including the
    investment of Bayer and RWE the total budget amounts to some EUR 9 million. If the testing phase goes well, the industrial production of plastics based on CO2 should start in 2015.

    Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Rachel from the German Federal
    Ministry of Education and Research spoke of a "revolutionary" approach that could completely change how we view CO2. "The debate on climate change has portrayed CO2 as the villain of the piece in the public eye. Now we are supporting research into alternative solutions that could make good use of CO2 as a raw material."

    Professor Klaus Topfer, founding director of the new Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany, said that the carbon cycle must be closed: "CO2 should be used as a resource and not disposed of as waste."

    The carbon dioxide used in the project comes from RWE Power's lignite powerplant in Niederaussem outside Cologne, Germany. At its Coal Innovation Center there, the company operates a CO2 scrubber where the carbon dioxide is separated from the flue gas.

    At the pilot plant - designed, built and run by Bayer Technology Services - kilograms of the carbon dioxide are used to produce one of the two components essential for the production of polyurethanes. Bayer
    MaterialScience is testing these materials, which are used primarily to
    produce soft and rigid foams, at one of its existing plants.

    The efficient use of CO2 is only possible because a suitable catalyst, for
    which experts had been searching for four decades, has finally been
    discovered. This research breakthrough was made by scientists at Bayer and
    the CAT as part of the forerunner "Dream Reactions" project, which was also funded in part by the German federal government. During the current "Dream Production" initiative, researchers at the CAT are, among other things, testing the compatibility of the catalyst with CO2 from the power plant.
    RWTH Aachen University is subjecting all stages of the new process to
    comprehensive ecological and economic scrutiny, and is also comparing it
    with conventional processes and products.

    Related LinksSource

    This article was prepared by Energy Weekly News editors from staff and
    other reports. Copyright 2011, Energy Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.

  8. forum rang 10 voda 8 maart 2011 17:34
    'Milieuplannen EU bieden zekerheid bedrijven'
    Gepubliceerd op 8 mrt 2011 om 17:26 | Views: 0

    BRUSSEL (AFN) - De Europese plannen voor vermindering van de uitstoot van kooldioxide bieden zekerheid en duidelijkheid voor bedrijven. Dat stelde staatssecretaris Joop Atsma (Infrastructuur en Milieu) dinsdag nadat de Europese Commissie de zogenoemde Roadmap 2050 had gepresenteerd.

    De Roadmap 2050 houdt vast aan de doelstelling van 20 procent CO2-vermindering in 2020, geleidelijk oplopend tot een reductie van 80 tot 95 procent in 2050. Een doelstelling die kan, met inzet van reeds bewezen technologie, aldus Atsma.

    ,,Klimaatbeleid is geen zaak van ieder land voor zich. Het is absoluut noodzakelijk dat we binnen Europa samen klimaatbeleid voeren", stelde de staatssecretaris.
  9. forum rang 10 voda 16 maart 2011 16:36
    Moray Firth rocks 'could store 15 years of carbon emissions'
    Severin Carrell
    guardian.co.uk
    646 words
    15 March 2011
    Guardian Unlimited
    GRULTD
    English
    Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2011. All rights reserved

    Scientists estimate the Captain sandstone could hold emissions from power stations in Scotland using carbon capture and storage

    Sandstone rocks under the North Sea could store at least 15 years of all Scotland's CO2 emissions from power stations and create tens of thousands of new jobs, an industry-sponsored report has claimed.

    The study has estimated that the rock formation, known as Captain sandstone, east of the Moray Firth, could eventually hold up to 100 years' worth of CO2 emissions from power stations in Scotland, using carbon-capture and storage (CCS) technologies which might be worth £10bn by 2025.

    The report, from the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage consortium involving Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh University and the British Geological Survey, argues that sea-water filled rock formations such as the Captain sandstone could have "immense potential" for storing carbon.

    Prof Eric Mackay, one of the authors, said: "We have shown that this is a feasible site that could store massive amounts of CO2, helping the UK meet its targets for carbon emissions reduction."

    Three Scottish power firms – which all are among the 12 firms and agencies that funded the report – are competing for UK government and European funding for CCS demonstration projects, worth between €4.5bn (£3.9bn) and €9bn. Six bids for power stations in north-east England have also been made.

    ScottishPower wants to install CCS to one 300MW unit at Longannet coal-fired power station in Fife. Scottish and Southern Energy said last week it has also applied for grants to retro-fit CCS on one 385MW turbine plant for its gas-fired power station at Peterhead.

    Both would use existing North Sea pipelines to pump CO2 back into existing gas reservoirs.

    Ayrshire Power is bidding to install CCS technology on a new 1825MW coal-fired plant it wants to build at Hunterston. It would capture about 22% of its CO2 when it first opens, then retrofit the technology to the remaining turbines to capture 90% after the equipment is proven.

    Environment campaigners are deeply sceptical about the report's findings and its predictions that the technology could produce 27,000 jobs and be worth £10bn by 2025. These estimates assume the UK can secure 10% of the global CCS market, that the technology works and that existing CCS projects within the UK succeed.

    Investment bankers have also been sceptical about whether the tens of billions of pounds needed to build these plants and the vast and cash-intensive offshore windfarms can be found, to meet the government's 2020 and 2025 CO2 reduction targets.

    Juliet Swann, head of projects and campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said recent FoE reports had raised profound doubts about the effectiveness of the technology.

    Although there was a case to explore retrofitting CCS to existing coal-fired power stations to test whether it worked, FoE objected strongly to building new coal-fired stations given the urgent need to cut CO2 emissions, not increase them.

    She said that the current CCS projects were also competing for the UK and EU subsidies against much greener renewables schemes, including four tidal and wave power projects in Scotland.

    "If we're going to invest billions in CCS rather than wave and tidal, we need more assurances than a study funded by vested interests, worryingly including the developers behind the hugely unpopular new coal fired power station at Hunterston," she said.

    Many of the current pilot projects are based on pumping CO2 into existing oil and gas fields. The new report looks at the potential for using "saline acquifers", rocks impregnated with sea water. It
    says these acquifers have "appear to offer substantially greater total capacity for long-term storage" than exhausted oil and gas fields.

    guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2011
  10. forum rang 10 voda 28 maart 2011 16:11
    'EU wil veel minder CO2-uitstoot transport'
    Gepubliceerd op 28 mrt 2011 om 11:35 | Views: 134

    BRUSSEL (AFN) - In 2050 moet de uitstoot van broeikasgassen in de transportsector met 60 procent zijn gedaald. Daarvoor dienen er rond die tijd geen auto's meer in de steden te rijden op conventionele brandstoffen, zoals benzine en diesel.

    Ook moet 40 procent van de brandstoffen die in de luchtvaart worden gebruikt dan koolstofarm zijn. De helft van alle trajecten in het goederenvervoer boven de 300 kilometer moet in 2050 per spoor of via de binnenvaart worden afgelegd. Het grootste deel van het passagiersvervoer boven deze afstand moet per spoor gebeuren.

    Dat staat in een toekomststrategie, die de Europese Commissie maandag heeft gepresenteerd. Volgens eurocommissaris Siim Kallas (Transport) zijn de maatregelen nodig om de economische groei te stimuleren, om te zorgen voor werk en voor het klimaatbeleid. ,,De mobiliteit beperken is geen optie, evenmin als alles bij het oude laten.''

    Verkeersslachtoffers

    In de voorstellen staat ook dat het aantal verkeersslachtoffers in Europa in 2050 tot bijna nul moet worden teruggebracht. Voor 2020 mikt de EU al op een halvering.

    De verladersorganisatie EVO zegt de doelstelling van de Europese Commissie volledig te onderschrijven. Maar het plan kan volgens haar alleen slagen als de EU het investeren in nieuwe technieken stimuleert en echt werk maakt van het liberaliseren van het spoornetwerk. Ook moeten de administratieve lasten voor de transportsector omlaag en dienen vervoerders vrij te zijn om overal in de EU hun diensten aan te bieden.

    Onvoldoende

    Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN) vindt de voorstellen om de uitstoot van CO2 te verminderen volstrekt onvoldoende. Ook al omdat geen rekening is gehouden met de verwachte verkeersgroei. Om de doelstelling te bereiken is volgens de brancheorganisatie een technologische doorbraak nodig. Dat moet aan de markt worden overgelaten. Europa moet de randvoorwaarden scheppen en geld uittrekken voor innovatieve oplossingen. ,,Op dit moment zijn alternatieven voor de verbrandingsmotor zoals elektrisch aangedreven voertuigen nog niet rendabel’’, aldus een woordvoerder.

    Milieuorganisatie Greenpeace is minder tevreden over het 'witboek' van de Europese Commissie. Ze vindt dat die het aanpakken van het klimaatprobleem te veel vertraagt. ,,Het stuk van de commissie schuift de zaak schaamteloos door naar een volgende generatie.''
  11. forum rang 10 voda 16 mei 2011 15:21
    NEa ziet uitstoot CO2 stijgen
    Gepubliceerd op 16 mei 2011 om 15:18 | Views: 0

    DEN HAAG (AFN) - De uitstoot van het broeikasgas CO2 door Nederlandse bedrijven die meedoen aan het Europese systeem van emissiehandel is vorig jaar met 4,2 procent toegenomen tot 84,4 miljoen ton. Dit heeft de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit (NEa) maandag bekendgemaakt.

    Voor de NEa komt de stijging niet als een verrassing. Door het aantrekken van de economie zijn bedrijven meer gaan produceren.

    De bedrijven die verplicht deelnemen aan het systeem moeten hun uitstootgegevens rapporteren aan toezichthouder NEa. Zowel de uitstoot als het aantal toegewezen emissierechten is gestegen. Voor bedrijven die vanaf 2008 meedoen aan het stysteem staat de hoeveelheid rechten vast. Nieuwe bedrijven en bedrijven die uitbreiden kunnen rechten aanvragen uit een reservering die daarvoor gemaakt is.
  12. forum rang 10 voda 26 mei 2011 18:16
    'Zwavelnorm schepen schadelijk voor economie'

    Gepubliceerd op 26 mei 2011 om 18:02 | Views: 0

    DEN HAAG (AFN) - De Nederlandse economie dreigt schade op te lopen door de internationale invoering van een norm om de uitstoot van zwavel door zeeschepen drastisch te beperken. Dat stelt een aantal ondernemersorganisaties donderdag in een brandbrief aan de Tweede Kamer en minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructuur en Milieu)

    Zij willen dat de minister zich internationaal sterk maakt om te voorkomen dat de strengere norm per 1 januari 2015 wordt ingevoerd voor de scheepvaart door het Kanaal en in de Noord- en Oostzee.

    Ondertussen moet worden gewerkt aan een pakket compenserende maatregelen dat de invoering van de norm in de jaren na 2015 wel mogelijk maakt, vinden onder meer de verladersorganisatie EVO, de Koninklijke Vereniging van Nederlandse Reders (KVNR) en de Rotterdamse ondernemersorganisatie Deltalinqs.

    Laagzwavelige brandstof

    Laagzwavelige brandstof is veel duurder en dat brengt met zich mee dat de kostprijs van het vervoer over zee fors stijgt. Dat schaadt de concurrentiepositie van Noordwest-Europese rederijen.

    De maatregel is ook schadelijk voor het milieu, beweren de organisaties, omdat het raffinageproces van zwavelarme gasolie meer uitstoot van CO2 oplevert dan van andere brandstoffen. Bovendien zullen verladers wegens de hogere kostprijs vaker gebruikmaken van het wegtransport.
  13. forum rang 10 voda 2 juni 2011 16:49
    German nuclear shut down to add 40 million tonnes CO2 - Report

    Reuters reported that Germany's plan to shut all its nuclear power plants by 2022 will add up to 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually as the country turn to fossil fuels.

    Analysts said that the extra emissions would increase demand for carbon permits under the European Union's trading scheme, thereby adding a little to carbon prices and pollution costs for EU industry.

    Dr Amrita Sen analyst at Barclays Capital said that "We will see a pick-up in German coal burn. Longer term, they will be using more renewables and gas but this year and next, we should see a lot of support for coal burn."

    The phase out is seen as more political than technical as German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to capture anti-nuclear sentiment in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima crisis.

    Environmentalists welcomed the shift, although some demanded a faster phase out, hoping it would spur a shift to renewable energy which they view as less harmful by avoiding radioactive waste.

    But analysts say the move will also see an increase in planet warming greenhouse gases equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia, as Germany uses gas and coal to plug a power generation gap, both of which are more carbon emitting than nuclear power.

    That calculation implied some skepticism with the coalition's assertion it would cut power demand and expand the use of renewables such as wind and solar power.

    Deutsche Bank analysts estimated an extra 370 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions through 2020, compared with Societe Generale's extra 406 million tonnes.

    Mr Matteo Mazzoni, analyst at Italy's Nomisma Energia, estimated an extra 20 to 29 million extra tonnes of CO2 per year. He said that "This is not likely to drive prices much higher in the medium term, unless the price of power comes under pressure."

    SocGen analyst Mr Emmanuel Fages increased his third quarter 2011 EUA price forecast by a modest 0.5 cents to EUR 17 per tonne and would reassess other prices. He added that "Carbon prices should obviously also get an uplift due to the sentiment born from the decision, but it will be limited and temporary. The market remains largely oversupplied for two years to come, capping any significant price increase in the short run."

    The EU trading scheme is meant to limit industrial emissions by allocating a fixed quota of EUAs to some 12,600 factories and power plants but recession in 2009 left a glut of permits.

    (Sourced from www.reuters.com)
  14. forum rang 10 voda 6 juni 2011 20:16
    Kyoto Protocol Faces Gap After Emissions Targets End, UN Chief Says

    By Alex Morales - Jun 6, 2011 4:44 PM GMT+0200

    The world’s only treaty that caps greenhouse-gas emissions will face a gap in enforcement after 2012 because its targets expire and an extension can’t be approved in time, the top United Nations climate official said.

    Japan, Russia and Canada have said they won’t take part in a so-called second-commitment period under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Even if they sign up to new goals at talks in December in Durban, South Africa, the decision will require an amendment of the treaty and ratification by governments around the world, the UN’s Christiana Figueres said today in Bonn.

    “We would assume that there is no time to do that between Durban and the end of 2012,” Figueres told reporters, acknowledging for the first time that time has run out to agree to a new set of limits under Kyoto that will dovetail with the first. The Durban talks are the next scheduled round.

    After failing to agree to a new global warming treaty in Copenhagen in 2009, more than 190 countries are trying to devise new rules to cut emissions that Figueres said last month rose to a record in the atmosphere. Developing countries including China say industrialized nations should act first while the U.S. and Japan say no agreement can work without all major emitters.

    “We are not committed to any outcome which would only engage developed countries,” U.S. lead negotiator Jonathan Pershing said in Bonn after two weeks of talks began. “There is no scenario which works on this without a more comprehensive participation and collective action.”

    Realistic Time?

    Artur Runge Metzger, the lead negotiator for the European Commission, said 2014 or 2015 is “probably a realistic time perspective” for achieving a global deal including all the major emitters.

    He said an agreement in Durban that only includes a new set of targets for the 27-nation European Union would not be a success, covering only about 11 percent of global emissions.

    At the last round of ministerial negotiations in Cancun in December, governments agreed for the first time that the goal of the talks should be to keep the temperature rise since industrialization to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius and pledged to examine the possibility of a 1.5-degree target.

    The International Energy Agency on May 31 said global carbon emissions from electricity generation climbed to a record in 2010, and the UN Environment Program said last year that current emissions pledges from all nations would lead to a temperature rise of 2.5 to 5 degrees Celsius by 2100.

    The environmental groups WWF International and Greenpeace, which have pushed for a legally-binding treaty, both said an all-encompassing deal won’t be possible in Durban.

    ‘Political Environment’

    “The political environment isn’t conducive for a fair, ambitious and binding deal,” said Tasneem Essop, lead climate campaigner for WWF. “It won’t be reached in Durban.”

    This year’s talks can agree to set up institutions such as a green fund to channel climate change aid and a registry to note actions taken by developing countries to cut emissions, Essop said. Countries could also agree to a year that emissions must peak and a mandate to reach a treaty by an agreed future date, she said.

    “We don’t trust our governments to do what they have to do by Durban,” Greenpeace International Climate Policy Coordinator Tove Ryding said in a Bonn interview. “Is the next conference going to be about how many people are going to go away from the Kyoto Protocol?”

    Campaign groups are still calling for governments in the industrialized world to raise their ambition on emissions cuts. The development charity Oxfam said yesterday in a study that developing countries account for about 60 percent of emissions reductions currently pledged.

    Salvage Talks

    Figueres said envoys are trying to salvage the Kyoto talks by showing flexibility.

    “Countries are being more creative and are beginning to say ‘OK, we understand that a second commitment period would not be able to be identical to the first if only for the very reason that Japan, Russia and Canada will not participate,’” she said.

    The world’s biggest emitters, the U.S. and China, aren’t bound by Kyoto, a reason cited by Japan in opposing a second commitment period. A new round of targets for the 27-nation European Union and other countries is still possible, Figueres said in an interview.

    “If that’s what the countries want, I certainly won’t stop them,” she said. “The EU has been pretty public about saying they would commit to a second commitment period under certain conditions. The key is to explore those conditions. I’m assuming they’d not want to do it all alone.”

    To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Morales in London at amorales2@bloomberg.net

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net

    www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-06/kyo...
  15. forum rang 10 voda 8 juni 2011 16:35
    Niet zo goed voor de CO2 levels...

    China to deploy more coal trains to ease power crunch

    Reuters reported that China's Railway Ministry is ready to deploy more trains to transport coal around the country to help ease a power crunch which is expected to worsen as the hot summer approaches.

    Ministry said that relevant local bureaus are paying close attention to the supply and consumption of thermal coal in regions suffering power shortages and will make sure no power shortage is caused by delays in railway transport. More than 70% of China's electricity is generated from coal which is mostly extracted in northern China.

    China's electricity demand is running so far ahead of supply that it is expected to be short of 30 GW to 40 GW of power capacity this summer, twice the deficit caused in Japan by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

    Economists said that China has created the shortage by foisting low prices on power companies, who have little incentive to produce electricity because of high coal costs.

    China's overloaded rail and road networks struggle to deliver vast quantities of coal from major producing regions in the north to big electricity consuming provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong in the east and southeast, where local supplies are scarce.

    (Sourced from Reuters)
  16. forum rang 10 voda 8 juni 2011 16:55
    Greenhouse gas emissions hitting record highs

    AP reported that bad news awaits delegates from about 180 countries at the start of two weeks of climate talks beginning Monday to debate a new global warming accord.

    According to a new report by the International Energy Agency, Greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down despite 20 years of effort, hitting record highs.

    Other unpleasant topics facing the conference in Bonn include the tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster in March which apparently has sidelined Japan’s aggressive policies to combat climate change. It also prompted countries like Germany to hasten the decommissioning of nuclear power stations which, regardless of other drawbacks have nearly zero carbon emissions.

    Mr Endre Tvinnereim analyst of the consultancy firm Point Carbon said that “Japan’s energy future is in limbo,”. The fallout from the catastrophe has put climate policy further down the priority list and the short term effect in Japan, one of the world’s most carbon efficient countries will be burning more fossil fuels.

    Despite the expansion of renewable energy around the world, the Paris based IEA’s report said energy related carbon emissions last year topped 30 gigatons, 5% more than the previous record in 2008. With energy investments locked into coal and oil fueled infrastructure, the situation will change little over the next decade.

    Mr Fatih Birol chief economist of IEA said that the energy trend should be a wake up call. The figures are a serious setback to hopes of limiting the rise in the Earth’s average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre industrial levels.

    Any rise beyond that, scientists believe, could lead to catastrophic climate shifts affecting water supplies and global agriculture, setting off more frequent and fierce storms and causing a rise in sea levels which would endanger coastlines.

    The June 6th to 17th 2011 discussions in Bonn will prepare for the annual year-end decision-making United Nations conference, which this year is in Durban, South Africa. Even more than previous conferences, Durban could be the forum for a major showdown between wealthy countries and the developing world.

    (Sourced from Associated Press)
  17. forum rang 10 voda 8 juni 2011 21:44
    Air Rules to Cost Almost $18 Billion a Year, Coal Group Says

    By Jim Snyder - Jun 8, 2011 7:38 PM GMT+0200

    Clean-air rules proposed by the Obama administration will cost utilities $17.8 billion annually and raise electricity rates 11.5 percent on average in 2016, according to an analysis paid for by a coal-industry group.

    The report, released today as part of a campaign to delay compliance deadlines in the pending rules, estimates that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the “premature” retirements of coal-fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal’s U.S. production capacity.

    The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an Alexandria, Virginia-based group whose members include Southern Co. (SO) of Atlanta and St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU), paid National Economic Research Associates Inc. for the study.

    The analysis by the New York-based company shows the pollution limits would be “some of the most expensive EPA rules ever imposed on coal-fueled power plants,” Steve Miller, chief executive of the coal group, said in an e-mail.

    The agency is working with utilities and interested parties to ensure its rules are “reasonable, common-sense and achievable,” Brendan Gilfillan, a spokesman for the EPA, said in an e-mail.

    More than half of all coal-fired power plants use “widely available pollution control technologies” that can meet the new mercury and air toxics emission targets, he said.

    Whitfield Measure

    Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the energy subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has said he plans to introduce a bill to give utilities more time to comply with the rules.

    New maximum levels for nitrogen oxides, a component of smog, and sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, are scheduled to take effect in 2012. The EPA is under a court order to produce a final mercury rule in November. Utilities would have as long as four years to meet the mercury standard.

    The agency says its mercury rule, which also covers acid gases and arsenic emissions, would prevent as many as 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks a year, at an annual cost to industry of $10.9 billion in 2016.

    Exposure to mercury can lead to developmental problems in children. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides can lead to respiratory illnesses.

    -- Editors: Steve Geimann, Judy Pasternak

    To contact the reporters on this story: Jim Snyder in Washington at jsnyder24@bloomberg.net

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Larry Liebert at lliebert@bloomberg.net

    www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-08/epa...
  18. forum rang 10 voda 10 juni 2011 17:14
    Northeast U.S. Carbon Auction Leaves 69 Percent of Allowances Unsold

    By Simon Lomax - Jun 10, 2011 4:35 PM GMT+0200

    Carbon dioxide permits in the U.S. Northeast were auctioned for $1.89 each, the minimum allowable bid, and 69 percent of the pollution rights went unsold.

    The auction on June 8 sold 13.5 million of the 43.9 million carbon dioxide permits, or allowances, that were offered, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative said on its website today.

    Each allowance gives a power plant the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide in a cap-and-trade program that spans 10 states from Maryland to Maine.

    Power plants in the region have “significantly reduced” their carbon-dioxide output since pollution targets were set, Collin O’Mara, secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and a member of the cap-and-trade program’s board of directors, said in an e-mail.

    “Electricity generators require fewer allowances,” O’Mara said.

    To contact the reporter on this story: Simon Lomax in Washington at slomax@bloomberg.net

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Larry Liebert at lliebert@bloomberg.net
  19. forum rang 10 voda 14 juni 2011 17:06
    Ohio seeks grant to research whether carbon dioxide could help draw more oil from old fields
    13 June 2011
    Associated Press Newswires
    The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - State officials are seeking federal money to test whether crude oil can be drawn from old Ohio oil fields by pumping carbon dioxide from power plants and other sources into the ground -- a process that has drawn concern from environmentalists.
    The process used in California and Texas for decades increases the pressure underground and mixes with the oil, freeing it from nooks and crannies. It was tested by Ohio in 2008 at a low-yield well southeast of Canton and resulted in a 58 percent increase in production, The Columbus
    Dispatch reported Monday.
    Pumping carbon dioxide into wells at the 175,000-acre East Canton oil field test site in Carroll, Harrison, Stark and Tuscarawas counties could draw as much as 279 million barrels from the field, officials estimate.
    "It lightens the oil. It fluffs it up," Larry Wickstrom, chief of the Ohio Geological Survey, told the newspaper. "It actually makes it so you can push (the oil) through."
    Officials hope the U.S. Department of Energy will approve an $11 million federal grant to help finance testing by researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute headquartered in Columbus, Wickstrom said.
    Other sources for the estimated $16 million needed for testing include industrial partners and possibly the state, Wickstrom told The Associated Press.
    Environmentalists are concerned that using carbon dioxide would lead to increased pollution. "I doubt carbon dioxide's ability to remain underground," Nachy Kanfer, Midwest coordinator of the Sierra Club's coal-to-clean energy campaign, told The Dispatch.
    Kanfer said there is concern about carbon dioxide returning to the surface with the oil and about fractures and holes in old oil fields that could allow leaks that would be difficult to monitor.
    Wickstrom says that the first thing looked at is the "integrity of the site," and that once fields are in full production, carbon dioxide returning to the surface with the oil "can be recaptured and re-injected."
    Another concern is that carbon dioxide might come eventually from coal-fired power plants and deter utilities from moving to cleaner energy sources, Kanfer said.
    "The use of coal has been declining for the last several years," Kanfer told the AP. "Instead of spending money on something that may or may not work, we should spend it on cleaner energy."
    Injecting carbon dioxide to recover oil hasn't been used in Ohio because there is not a readily available supply of the gas, and much of what has been used in other areas is naturally occurring carbon dioxide, Wickstrom said.
    Man-made sources include ethanol plants, natural gas processing plants, cement kilns and methane from landfills. Coal-fired power plants also could be a possible source eventually, but "there is no economical technology ready yet" that would allow plants to separate a pure carbon dioxide stream from other gases, Wickstrom said.
    The object of the carbon dioxide testing is to determine whether it can be used efficiently in Ohio to "increase oil production," and not to determine eventual sources of the gas, Wickstrom said.
    Ohio's old oil fields are nearing the end of their primary life, and "we need to look at this before they are completely abandoned," he said.
    Officials won't know until September whether they will receive federal funding
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    Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, www.dispatch.com
  20. forum rang 10 voda 15 juni 2011 17:57
    Mitsubishi Heavy successfully deployed carbon capture technology

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc announced the successful start of operations of a 25 Megawatt carbon capture facility at Southern Company’s Plant Barry, owned and operated by Alabama Power. This facility utilizes the KM CDR Process®* capture technology, jointly developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd and The Kansai Electric Power Co Inc.

    Built in collaboration with Southern Company, it is the world’s largest Carbon Capture and Sequestration facility attached to a coal fired power plant using a proven capture technology. It will capture approximately 150,000 tonnes of CO2 annually for permanent underground storage in a deep saline geologic formation.

    Mr Mitch Morimoto president & CEO of MHIA stated that “This is a significant milestone and is part of our strategic effort to commercialize our KM CDR Process® CO2 technology. Coal is abundant and relatively cheap, so it is important for world energy security and environmental protection to develop technologies and to find ways to preserve coal as a fuel source. The KM CDR Process® is just one of a suite of technologies we have been developing toward making coal an environmentally acceptable fuel for the future.”

    MHI’s KM CDR Process® technology uses an advanced solvent called KS-1 to capture the CO2 from a flue gas stack. The flue gas is directed to the KM CDR Process® where the KS-1 solvent reacts with and captures the CO2. CO2 can then be separated from the KS-1 and compressed for pipeline transport.

    Captured CO2 will be supplied to the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and transported roughly 11 miles by pipeline before injection 9,500 feet below the Citronelle Oil Field operated by Denbury Resources. The CO2 will remain underground, permanently trapped in the geologic formation.
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