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Australia to start carbon trading in 2010
Australia's carbon trading scheme will be up and running by the middle of 2010, according to a statement made by the Australian government minister for climate change and water, Penny Wong, at the Poznan climate change negotiations last week.
Global oil demand to slump
Global oil demand is set to fall this year and next, marking the first consecutive two-year decline in three decades, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA).
Liffe to launch commodities on Bclear
Liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, has announced that it will launch a range of soft and agricultural commodities on its Bclear OTC derivatives platform in the first quarter of 2009.
Essent Trading expands into Nordics and Asia-Pacific
Essent Trading, the Geneva-based trading arm of Dutch utility Essent, has opened representative offices in Norway and Singapore.
Joe Gold
Joe Gold, MD and co-head of commodities at Barclays Capital, talks to Katie Holliday about weathering the financial market turmoil
LNG fundamentals - Natural selection
The LNG market for Europe and Asia has been traditionally tight, but new supply looks set to change market dynamics. Katie Holliday reports
Cultural exchange
EEX and Powernext's agreement to share their electricity spot and derivatives markets represents groundbreaking Franco-German energy market co-operation. The CEOs of both exchanges talk to Roderick Bruce about the challenges involved and what the merged…
Slipping and sliding away
Are fundamentals behind oil's steep price increase and subsequent fall, or was it the bursting of a speculative bubble? Mauricio Bermudez-Neubauer and Paulo Homem Cristo of Point Carbon assess the impact of fundamental and non-fundamental drivers on…
LNG pricing - Moving forward
While the bulk of global LNG volumes remain locked up in opaque long-term deals, attempts are being made to introduce price transparency and a forward curve to the market. Roderick Bruce investigates
US carbon market addresses known unknowns
The election of Barack Obama as President has made a federal cap-and-trade emissions scheme in the US almost certain. Pauline McCallion reports on how stakeholders are coping with the remaining uncertainties
European carbon emissions saw increase in 2007
Despite reduction targets, major European electricity producers have increased their carbon emissions since 2007 according to a report released by PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) last week.
750 MW Welsh wind farm given go ahead
Npower Renewables, a subsidiary of German utility RWE, received permission on December 3 from the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change to build and operate the 750 megawatt (MW) Gwynt y Mor wind farm off the coast of North Wales.
Earth Capital Partners to launch $5bn sustainability fund
Former chief executive of Man Group, Stanley Fink, is chairing an environmentally focused fund management company entitled Earth Capital Partners that aims to raise $5 billion over the next five years.
EDF reveals counter-offer for Constellation
Constellation Energy has received an unsolicited $4.5bn bid from Electricite de France (EDF) for 50% of its nuclear business.
UN suspends carbon credit verifier DNV
The United Nations CDM Executive Board has temporarily suspended Norwegian consulting firm DNV's powers for accrediting clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, prompting potential delays for project developers' issuance of Certified Emission…
CFOs outline financial challenges for 2009
Credit capacity constraints will be the greatest financial challenge for the oil & gas industry in 2009, according to 57% of chief financial officers (CFOs) in the sector.
Enel launches renewables arm
Italian energy company Enel launched renewables arm Enel Green Power on December 1, to expand operating power generation from renewable resources in Europe and internationally.
Australian interest rate cut 100bp to 4.25%
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reduced its overnight interest rate today by 100bp to 4.25% - the lowest level since records began in 1990.