Comments on: Is Gore’s darling carbon exchange dead or what? http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/ Taking the heat out of global warming Sun, 20 May 2012 05:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/comment-page-1/#comment-29521 Andy Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:13:24 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=7422#comment-29521 Well it looks like we will be playing alone. Canada has just dumped their bill http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/17/canadian-senate-kills-climate-change-bill/ Well it looks like we will be playing alone.

Canada has just dumped their bill

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/17/canadian-senate-kills-climate-change-bill/

]]> By: Lisa G in NZ http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/comment-page-1/#comment-29518 Lisa G in NZ Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:24:24 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=7422#comment-29518 great post, thanks for the mention... I wonder if you'll get a response clarifying the 'cease trading' language. If the big trading boys and countries all put down the carbon credit toys making NZ a one sided ETS, would NZ be the winner if noone else plays the game? great post, thanks for the mention… I wonder if you’ll get a response clarifying the ‘cease trading’ language.

If the big trading boys and countries all put down the carbon credit toys making NZ a one sided ETS, would NZ be the winner if noone else plays the game?

]]> By: val majkus http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/comment-page-1/#comment-29088 val majkus Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:50:22 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=7422#comment-29088 hope so! I wish Australia would extricate itself from the UN - that institution is so yesterday hope so! I wish Australia would extricate itself from the UN – that institution is so yesterday

]]> By: Richard C (NZ) http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/comment-page-1/#comment-29059 Richard C (NZ) Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:16:57 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=7422#comment-29059 And if COP16 fails at Cancun............ And if COP16 fails at Cancun…………

]]> By: val majkus http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/11/is-gores-darling-carbon-exchange-dead-or-what/comment-page-1/#comment-29028 val majkus Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:33:32 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=7422#comment-29028 I did see that comment by Lisa and made a comment myself; John O'Sullivan had an article on WUWT published on 8/11 and that's where I saw it first nice photo of Al Gore and comment Daniel H says: November 8, 2010 at 2:28 pm There was actually an interesting news story about this in the Financial Times last week. So it hasn’t been a total media blackout since FT has a large readership and competes with the WSJ. It’s a fairly mainstream newspaper. The site requires that you register (for free) in order to read articles, but here’s an excerpt: End of US carbon trading looms By Hal Weitzman in Chicago Published: November 1 2010 22:34 | Last updated: November 1 2010 22:34 The owner of the US’s only nationwide cap-and-trade market has signalled the death of the seven-year-old industry, saying companies were no longer interested in trading carbon emissions credits in the absence of government legislation. IntercontinentalExchange, the US futures exchange group, in July bought UK-listed Climate Exchange, operator of the European Climate Exchange – which trades CO2 allowances as part of the mandatory European Union Emissions Trading Scheme – as well as the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange. Although CCX’s market is voluntary, since launching in 2003 it attracted large US companies such as Ford, Bank of America, Cargill, IBM and Intel. Members made a voluntary but legally binding commitment to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets either by cutting emissions or by buying emissions permits sold by members. The business depended on the notion that the US would impose carbon emissions caps on companies and give its blessing to a market for trading credits, turning CCX’s voluntary trading into a mandatory market… You can read the rest here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3fe91576-e5de-11df-af15-00144feabdc0.html I did see that comment by Lisa and made a comment myself; John O’Sullivan had an article on WUWT published on 8/11 and that’s where I saw it first
nice photo of Al Gore
and comment Daniel H says:
November 8, 2010 at 2:28 pm
There was actually an interesting news story about this in the Financial Times last week. So it hasn’t been a total media blackout since FT has a large readership and competes with the WSJ. It’s a fairly mainstream newspaper. The site requires that you register (for free) in order to read articles, but here’s an excerpt:

End of US carbon trading looms
By Hal Weitzman in Chicago
Published: November 1 2010 22:34 | Last updated: November 1 2010 22:34

The owner of the US’s only nationwide cap-and-trade market has signalled the death of the seven-year-old industry, saying companies were no longer interested in trading carbon emissions credits in the absence of government legislation.

IntercontinentalExchange, the US futures exchange group, in July bought UK-listed Climate Exchange, operator of the European Climate Exchange – which trades CO2 allowances as part of the mandatory European Union Emissions Trading Scheme – as well as the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange.

Although CCX’s market is voluntary, since launching in 2003 it attracted large US companies such as Ford, Bank of America, Cargill, IBM and Intel. Members made a voluntary but legally binding commitment to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets either by cutting emissions or by buying emissions permits sold by members.

The business depended on the notion that the US would impose carbon emissions caps on companies and give its blessing to a market for trading credits, turning CCX’s voluntary trading into a mandatory market…

You can read the rest here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3fe91576-e5de-11df-af15-00144feabdc0.html

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