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This is Scunthorpe reported that the Scunthorpe steel industry’s three main trade unions have urged the government and the European Union to reconsider a 30% carbon reduction target.
South Korea moves toward carbon cap-and-trade
Seoul, May 4 – South Korea, Asias fourth-largest economy, says it will finalise plans in September for an emissions trading scheme covering the majority of the nations carbon pollution.
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- Published: Feb 9th, 2010
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Press Release: FinSoul: Fifty five nations responsible for 80% of the globes carbon emissions submit carbon reduction targets.
2010-02-02 09:37:33 – Chief UN climate negotiator says recent submissions are a positive indication of progress for the Copenhagen Accord.
FinSoul has learned that a total of 55 countries including top emitters led by China and the United States have submitted targets for cuts on greenhouse gas emissions. These nations are collectively responsible for 80% of global carbon emissions.
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Border Patrol: Carbon Tariffs Rear Up in Copenhagen
There are so many potential landmines awaiting negotiators in Copenhagenfrom big-ticket items like emissions-reductions targets to financing to seemingly arcane items like forest protectionits hard to single out just one that could blow up the whole thing. Could carbon tariffs do the trick?
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Today Greenpeace issues report critical of carbon offsets from forest preservation
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Today Greenpeace issues a report critical of carbon offsets from forest preservation. In the late 1990s a group of environmentalists and polluters started the first widespread experiment to control Climate Change through forest preservation. The Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project did save the biologically plentiful region of 6,000 square miles from logging. Yet it has failed to reach its carbon reduction target.
