The bank is the latest among some Canadian financial services institutions to become proactive on environmental issues
First North American-based bank to reach a carbon neutral goal
Carbon offset investment fund launches
New study proposes to use individual emissions as the way of calculating a nation's responsibility to curb its carbon dioxide output
Deutsche Bank launches a real-time carbon counter
A cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions in the United States would have widely divergent effects on the companies that comprise the S&P 500, new research finds.A report released today by the not-for-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and Trucost, a global provider of environmental data and analysis, finds that the earnings of most companies […]
Proposed legislation would set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is ready to regulate a US. carbon market, Bart Chilton, chair of the CFTC’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee said Thursday. “Our agency is standing ready to oversee the trading of derivatives in these critically important markets, to ensure the safety and soundness of all such activity,” said […]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a new committee to address the challenges posed by carbon markets.The CFTC says that it is preparing for what could be the largest commodity market ever: carbon trading. In the near future, the U.S. Congress is expected to consider legislation centered around a cap-and-trade system that would reduce […]
U.S. cap-and-trade system is on the horizon