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Japan must make deeper inroads in its emissions intensity rates to meet its 2020 climate goal.

Europe's climate commissioner said getting a post-2012 pact this year "will be very difficult".

European carbon dipped early on Tuesday, extending this week’s loss amid weaker German power.

Wind and hydro projects continue to dominate Chinese CDM investments.

Energy efficiency measures could slash emissions and make big savings, a new report said.

Lingering doubts over the carbon trading scheme are taking their toll on clean investment.

Nearly one-quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions were the result of exports to rich countries.

Carbon dioxide emissions imported, exported between developed and developing countries.

European carbon finished in negative territory on Monday amid flagging German power prices.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants nuclear plants to be built with help from carbon credits.

Japan’s electricity demand is expected to fall in fiscal 2009 for the second consecutive year.

The volume of CERs issued by the UN last week dipped to around 3.6 million.

China WindPower Group pocketed $20.8 million in the nine months ending 31 December 2009.

Carbon prices were trading in positive territory early on Monday amid thin liquidity.

Prime Minister Hatoyama is set to overrule his coalition partner on nuclear power.

Emerging Asian CO2 markets should link up to ensure sufficient liquidity, a Korean expert said.

Three more people have died as a result of floods in parts of Kenya, according to the latest statistics from the Kenya Red Cross and government officials.

As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa.

Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to scientists and development specialists. The question now is what to do about it before the fallout has disastrous consequences.

On January 30 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of the IMF, announced a possible new initiative - a multi-billion dollar Green Fund (that name is popular ? see below) that would help developing countries finance the measures needed to tackle climate change ? possibly with partial funding through issuance by the IMF of new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).