Current News in June-2006

 
• Total 222 projects Registered world wide
• 69 Indian Projects Registered
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Total CERs issued - 27,444,899.

CERs issued for 10 Indian projects (15 Issuance) . Total CERs Issued from Indian Projects- 12,353,233

• IPCC Adopts New Guidelines For National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Small-scale Working Group recommends "projects under category III are only accepted as small-scale if annual emission reductions are below 25,000 t CO2 equivalent"
• New SSC project category III.J. "Avoidance of fossil fuel combustion for carbon dioxide production to be used as raw material for industrial processes"
• "Finnder" the new Finnish Carbon Procurement Programme - is seeking 10 million tonnes of emission reductions by 2012
• Ford launches customer carbon offset programme
• Major office equipment maker Omron Corporation will purchase CO2 emission credits arising from a CDM project being implemented in India by major trading firm Sumitomo Corporation.
• Nagoya Carbon & Technology Exchange (NCTX) is gearing up to introduce a full-ledged greenhouse gas emission trading system in July
• The Asia Development Bank (ADB) will establish a fund worth about $130 million to help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in developing countries
• Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) has agreed with a unit of Indian national oil company Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to cooperate in oil and natural gas exploration
• Credit Suisse goes Carbon Neutral
• India, Brazil and China urged to cut energy waste
• AIG – Insurance Giant adopt policy to explore business from climate change risks
• Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism generates one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emission reductions
• Reinsurer Swiss Re and US environmental investor RNK Capital jointly launched Insurance Policy for CERs, which will reduce project developer risks related with CERs delivery from a CDM project
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North Eastern states ready to tap CDM potential in hydro and gas projects

• Asia critical to future of Climate Change tells ADB President Kuroda in Clean Energy Week
• UNEP launches multi-million dollar transport project to curb greenhouse gases in three Latin American Cities
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