| Sourced From Businessdailyafrica |
The United Nations climate secretariat on Thursday issued 228,400 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets to three Asian clean energy projects, ending a two-week issuance drought but failing to reassure concerned investors.
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.
Continue Reading at PR-Inside
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia promised to press on with its carbon trade plan on Tuesday despite the U.N. climate summit’s failure to set emissions targets, but the Copenhagen outcome has cooled chances an early election on climate policy.
Continue Reading at
Copenhagen isn’t just host to the global climate summit this month. The Danish capital offers proof positive of a way to reduce greenhouse gases: build a district heating system.
Continue Reading at
Negotiators from around 200 countries worked towards an agreement on pollution controls at the climate summit in Denmark. While developing countries hope for subsidies, others had their eye on business opportunities.
Continue reading at Rt.com
COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – China on Friday attacked a top U.S. envoy as either “extremely irresponsible” or lacking in common sense, for saying at a global summit to tackle warming that no U.S. climate aid would go to China.
Continue reading at Communities.thomsonreuters.com
Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
Continue reading at Truthabouttrade.org
Our planet has been ruthless to some of the species living on it over the long years of its existence. Extinction events and evolutionary bottlenecks have almost wiped out life on Earth on several occasions, but the culprit has always been nature. Now, it’s humans. Excessive hunting and increased pollution are destroying the world’s habitats and its ecosystems, and many species have nowhere to go. In spite of the fact that evolution works, it doesn’t work fast enough to allow for many creatures to adapt to their new circumstances.
Continue reading at Softpedia.com
Network on Linkedin
Get daily news
Subscribe to RSS
Follow on Twitter
Add us to iGoogle
Become a Facebook Fan
© 2009 Carbon Offsets Daily. All Rights Reserved.
This blog is powered by Wordpress and Magatheme by Bryan Helmig.