Isramart : Carbon Trading Grows Despite Recession

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Despite a major economic recession, the global carbon market grew by 68 percent last year. The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme accounted for nearly 70 percent of the market.

A new survey finds that about half of all money managers do not factor in climate change risks or opportunities when making investment decisions.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced $100 million in grants to retrain workers for green jobs.

1Sky wants supporters of a Senate climate bill to flood Senators’ offices with phone calls on Tuesday, Jan. 12.

Grist collects some reasons we can expect the Senate to pass a climate bill this year, despite the repeated assumption that climate legislation is off the table.

The E.P.A. says its plan to toughen smog standards could save the U.S. up to $100 billion in health care costs.

Panasonic and luxury electric car maker Tesla Motors announced a joint venture to develop “next-generation nickel-based lithium-ion battery cells.”

Scientists think melting ice under the East Siberian Shelf is releasing large amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere. Methane contributes to the greenhouse effect at a rate 20 times stronger than CO2.

Television weatherforecasters have a “not insubstantial” effect on the future of U.S. climate policy because they are a major source of scientific information for many Americans. The current issue of the Columbia Journalism review explores why so many of them are skeptical of climate change.

A USA Today op-ed argues that climate change is not just an environmental issue for people of color, but a civil rights issue as well.