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Reforestation can't offset massive fossil fuels emissions
2013-12-13 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: With the Australian, Japanese, and Canadian governments making an about-face on carbon-emissions reduction targets during the Warsaw climate summit, some experts are warning that the global need for solutions offsetting CO2 emissions is passing a "red line." Land-based mitigation practices comprise one of the solutions on the table as a result of both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol; however, a paper published in Nature Climate Change by an...
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Big companies assume future CO2 emissions price to cut costs and risks in planning
2013-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A recent finding by the climate nonprofit CDP that more than two dozen major U.S. firms are placing a price on carbon dioxide emissions for purposes of internal planning came as old news at 1 Poydras Place in New Orleans, the headquarters of Entergy Corp. The 100-year-old Fortune 500 company, which provides electricity and natural gas to 2.8 million customers in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, coastal Louisiana and East Texas, has been hedging on carbon dioxide since 2001 under a program it...
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BASF Expanding Mobile Emissions Catalysts Production Capacity in India
2013-12-13 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Guangdong may withhold free permits in China's 4th emissions scheme: sources
2013-12-12 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's Guangdong province has warned emitters that unless they bid for carbon permits in government auctions at a regulated minimum price, they will not receive any free permits under the nation's fourth emissions trading scheme, sources said. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is launching seven pilot carbon markets ahead of a nationwide scheme later this decade as a key measure to cut its emissions per unit of GDP to 40-45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Emissions...
China coal emissions responsible for 'quarter of a million premature deaths'
2013-12-12 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study. The study by a US air pollution expert, commissioned by Greenpeace, comes as many areas in northern and eastern China have been experiencing hazardous levels of air pollution in recent weeks. In some eastern cities including Shanghai, levels were off the index that tracks dangerous pollution,...
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