A small restaurant chain in Mexico city is about to play a pioneering role in a UN scheme to reduce carbon emissions at grass roots level.
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Stewart Stevenson downed by Greens on carbon emission targets
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Today (18th May) Holyroods Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee rejected the Climate Change Minister, Stewart Stevensons proposed annual carbon emissions targets.
Eastern Europe rushes to sell surplus Kyoto carbon rights-Romania, Bulgaria may have to cut prices
Time is running out for Romania and Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest nations, to earn much needed cash in tough times and make their economies greener by selling surplus emissions rights under the Kyoto Protocol.
The Balkan neighbours, along with other former communist east European countries, are comfortably below their carbon emissions targets set by the Kyoto climate pact, and can sell the excess to other industrialised countries having trouble meeting their own targets.
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APEC leaders kill Copenhagen treaty hopes
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The clearest sign yet that Copenhagen wont produce its intended goal, a new legally-binding agreement on climate change, has emerged from a meeting of key leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Singapore on the weekend.
ANALYSIS – “Perfect storm” threatens poor nations’ CO2 cuts
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The global economic downturn and a growing trade in sovereign emissions rights are combining to create a “perfect storm” that threatens to derail already sluggish efforts to cut greenhouse gases in poor countries.
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China tells rich nations to cut 2020 emissions by 40%
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UPDATE 2- BEIJING, May 21 (Reuters) – Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations.
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