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In today’s NYTimes, former Vice President Al Gore weighs in on the global warming debate by asserting that a scientific consensus on the issue has been achieved, despite minor problems with data manipulation which resulted from “make-work demands from climate skeptics.”
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Ruling kills Romanian OTC carbon permit trading
* Romanian regulators class EUAs as financial instruments
* Foreign traders must join exchanges, OTC to suffer
* Ruling, exchange trade to prevent EUA tax fraud -SIBEX
* Traders say move possibly illegal as EU Commission weighs
BUCHREST/LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Romania’s securities regulator have defined European Union carbon permits as financial instruments, a move which will force all its emissions trading onto one of the country’s exchanges.
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Opinion: Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits
Poor farming practices have degraded the world’s soils causing them to release carbon that should have stayed in the soil. In the past 150 years soils have released twice as much carbon as fuel burning. Improved farming methods could quickly rebuild degraded land and store enough carbon to offset the damage already done by fuel burning. Dr Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, a leading expert on soil carbon, estimates that the potential of economical carbon sequestration in world soils may be .65 billion to 1.1 billion tons per year for the next 50 years. This is enough to draw down atmospheric CO2 by 50 ppm by 2100. This is a one-time opportunity, however. We must ultimately stop burning fossil fuels.
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Opinion: California to Withdraw Harmful “Carbon Credits for Clearcuts” Forest Policy
SACRAMENTO – February 12 – In response to a formal legal letter filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Air Resources Board has proposed to withdraw its adoption of a “Forest Project Protocol” that would have allowed logging companies to earn valuable carbon credits for clearcutting projects and other destructive practices. At its February 25 meeting, the Board will consider reversing its adoption of the protocol pending a legally required review of environmental impacts to forests and the climate.
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Opinion: Olympic carbon offsets for dummies
The problem with the political discussion about climate change these days is its “let’s pretend” nature.
Much like Environment Minister Jim Prentice was pretending this week that the $150,000 Canada is spending on carbon offsets will “help offset the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its Olympic Games.”
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Press Release: To date 25,000t of CO2 Emissions Avoided by Photovoltaic Plants Arsol-1 and Arsol Toledo
The two plants developed by Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas have produced a total of 55 GWh since they came into operation two years ago Both plants, located in Ciudad Real and Toledo, Spain, are producing highly efficient clean energy with a total of 15 MW of power.
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Lancashire drivers urged to lower CO2 for Lent
DRIVERS are urged to consider lowering their CO2 emissions for Lent.
Lancashire County Council said it could also help save money on fuel and make roads safer.
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Opinion: Texas takes legal action against federal government over EPA CO2 mandates
Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said the state is taking legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
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£60m bill for the CO2 of our political class
One could not want a better vignette of the gulf that has opened up between our “political class” and the rest of us than a bizarre little item which emerged last week on an obscure part of the European Commission’s website. The British Government, as revealed by the EU’s Official Journal, has allocated £60 million of taxpayers’ money to be spent on buying carbon credits from the Third World for the use of government buildings and other official purposes – so that our civil servants can continue to benefit from the CO2 emissions needed to keep their offices warm and lit.
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CO2 emissions down from 2008 to 2009
According to a recent analysis of US Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide (CO2) data for 2008-2009, there has been an overall CO2 improvement of 2.8 per cent across all US cars and trucks.
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Governments ‘misjudging’ scale of CO2 emissions
Policy makers in Europe and United States are markedly underestimating the changes needed to mitigate CO2 emission required to prevent dangerous climate change because they work in ’silos’, according to pioneering research.
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Opinion: Firms delay CO2 cap technology
Companies in the UAE are delaying their investments into technologies that help cap carbon dioxide emissions by three years, insiders of the carbon trade industry told Emirates Business.
The Middle East carbon trade potential is estimated to be worth $5 billion (Dh18.3bn) annually. Carbon trade market in Europe is estimated to be worth €100bn (Dh499.8bn) and is expected to grow to €800bn by 2020.
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Opinion: Calculating a car’s CO2 emissions from its mpg
Motorists who drive cars that were first registered before 2001 are unlikely to be aware of how much CO2 their vehicle emits.
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Opinion: CO2 Mass Extinction Of Species And Climate Change
The release of more than 370 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC), as well as the depletion of vegetation, have triggered a fundamental shift in the state of the atmosphere [1]. Raising atmospheric CO2 level at a rate of 2 ppm/year, a pace unprecedented in the geological record, with the exception of the effects of CO2 released from craters excavated by large asteroid impacts, the deleterious effects of pollution and deforestation have reached a geological dimension, tracking toward conditions which existed on Earth in the mid-Pliocene, about 2.8 million years ago [2].
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UPDATE 2-U.S. EPA to soften CO2 requirements on industry
* EPA considers raising greenhouse gas permit threshold
* Senators from coal states complained rules too tough
* Sen. Rockefeller hints at legislation stopping EPA
* EPA to issue greenhouse gas rules next month (Releads, adds byline, Rockefeller, environmentalists)
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday it would slow a phase-in of new limits on carbon dioxide from coal and other heavy industry plants to ease concerns about the impact on the economy.
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U.S. Northeast Carbon Falls as Federal CO2 Trading Bill Stalls
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Carbon dioxide permits in the U.S. Northeast’s cap-and-trade program for power plants fell to their lowest level this year on waning public concern over emissions that scientists blame for global warming.
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The government’s introduction of the carbon emission tax has proved to be a very sensitive issue to most Zambian motorists.
Since the introduction of the Carbon Emission Surtax by the government this year, there have been more questions raised by concerned motorists and vehicle owners over the tax than answers given.
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New Delhi, February 4 : The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer appeared confident about the future of the Copenhagen climate accord, as he talked about current developments following the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December.
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TORBAY’S mayor has been asked to ignore the recent cold snap and put his faith in a campaign to stop global warming.
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Corona joins a host of California cities measuring their carbon footprints to comply with a state law aimed at halting global warming.
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THE Copenhagen climate change summit closed two weeks ago in confusion, disagreement and, for some, disillusionment. When the political process shows such a lack of unanimity, it is pertinent to ask whether the science behind the politics is as settled as some participants maintain.
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It is a glorious day outside the window of the Library at Carie. A foot or two of snow is on the fields and forests and on the distant Grampian Mountains. It is so cold that Loch Rannoch, the watery remnant of a mighty glacier that once swept majestically down from Rannoch Moor to distant Dundee 110 miles to the east and now placidly laps at the foot of our graceful lawns, is giving off a pearly mist, through which occasional darts of sunlight strike diamond fire from the fresh snow on Beinn Mhorlach, the little mountain on the far shore.
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The Copenhagen Accord has been noted by the UNFCCC as without any major pledges about carbon emission reduction by the developed and top polluter countries, apparently suggesting not much action in near future to reduce global warming.
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Global warming is on the tip of every tongue in many countries today. It is synonymous with Co2 emissions, and how our planet is gradually heating up. Many scientists are focusing on the problem and possible solutions that may lead to a decrease, or eventual halt in human created global warming. These solutions have come in the forms of renewable energies, as well as more environmentally products and structures.
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THE OBAMA administration has declared greenhouse gases to be harmful pollutants thus arming the government to wage war by administrative decree on the presumed threat of global warming.
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HOUSTON (KTRK) — World leaders gathered in Denmark are nearing the end of what was supposed to be a history-making climate change conference. The deal could’ve had huge impacts on Houston’s energy industry. Instead it seems it is falling apart two days before President Barack Obama’s arrival on Friday.
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With the global warming summit going on in Copenhagen, world attention is being focused on climate change. In this country it’s only a matter of time — after health care — for the debate to start on the extensive menu of dubious solutions meant to curtail the impending doom caused by melting glaciers and rising tides.
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Aspen trees, the backbone of Minnesota’s paper industry, are liking the extra carbon dioxide in the air linked to global warming.
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday the world needs to cut another 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide on top of current pledges for 2020 in order to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
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