RECS International wishes an energetic and merry Christmas to all our members, colleagues and friends! We hope that during this holiday season you can enjoy time with your friends and family!

The International Carbon Action Partnership (http://icapcarbonaction.com/) has released an emissions trading scheme map.

RECS International board members have discussed the future of the voluntary RECS certificates at their meeting in Milan on Friday December 7, 2012.

MESHARTILITY introduces a survey and invites local governments and energy suppliers to take part.

Presentation by Dominik Seebach at the AIB General Meeting in Milan on 6-7 December 2012 in particular regarding  the relation between the EECS registry with Öko-Institut as IB and the new RES-GO registry at Umweltbundesamt (UBA) in 2013.

On December 6th, 2012 a GSE representative presented at the RECS International GO Trading Seminar that the Italian GO will join the AIB-hub by the middle of 2013. This makes the Italian GO an EECS-GO.

The Council of the European Union released a statement yesterday regarding a council meeting on Transport, Telecommunications and Energy.

A number of presentations at the 18th annual Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) took place this week Monday the 26th of November.

The Germany Guarantee of Origin (GO) registry‚ Herkunftsnachweisregister (HKNR), is now open and accepting the registration of plant operators.