Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - September 2, 2008

Article by Kyle W. Danish, Shelley N. Fidler, Andrea Hudson Campbell and Kevin M. Gallagher

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Commentary

In a potentially influential settlement with the New York Attorney General, a major US electric power company, Xcel Energy, agreed to disclose its CO2 emissions; projected increases in emissions; strategies for reducing, offsetting, limiting or otherwise managing CO2 emissions and expected reductions; and corporate governance actions related to climate change . . . Aid over emissions trade? In international talks in Ghana, developing countries stood together in their traditional negotiating bloc to call on developed countries to provide funding equivalent to 0.5 to 1% of GNP for low-carbon technologies.