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CO2 Emissions: Can Europe Save Its Cap-and-Trade System?
2013-04-03 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Europe's cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken, but not everybody wants to fix it. Industry has profited immensely from the plummeting prices of CO2 emissions certificates, and from lax checks on questionable environmental projects undertaken overseas. Saving the climate? It doesn't seem all that difficult at first glance. All you have to do is fly from Germany to Zambia once in a while, as the German energy giant RWE's environment protection team does. It...
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BNSF Customers Reduce CO2 Emissions More Than 30 Million Metric Tons In 2012 Shipping By Rail
2013-04-02 16:00:00| pollutiononline Home Page
BNSF customers continue to make significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions shipping their freight by rail instead of entirely over the road
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Scientists a step closer toward creating biofuels directly from atmospheric CO2
2013-03-29 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Researchers have taken a step closer to using atmospheric carbon dioxide as a biofuel, potentially helping mitigate climate change while at the same time meeting rising energy demand, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists at the University of Georgia and the North Carolina State University are working with the bacteria Pyrococcus furiosus to convert CO2 into directly biofuels. "Basically, what we have done is create a microorganism...
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UGA/NCSU team engineers hyperthermophilic bacterium to produce industrial chemical building blocks from CO2 and H2; ARPA-E project
2013-03-26 20:30:22| Green Car Congress
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VWs Winterkorn underscores VWs CO2 targets with Greenpeace, with caveat about customers
2013-03-25 19:30:16| Green Car Congress
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