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UK: Marks & Spencer backs UNICEF carbon offset project
2013-11-29 16:10:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has become the first major company to sign up to UNICEF's carbon offset project, supporting a pilot project in Bangladesh that helps to reduce indoor air pollution and its impact on children's health.
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Mexico launches first carbon exchange to cut CO2 emissions
2013-11-27 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mexico's stock exchange launched its first platform to trade carbon credits on Tuesday, a voluntary initiative that allows polluters to offset their emissions with tradeable certificates. The new platform, called MEXICO2, provides an electronic forum for certificates conferring the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide, thereby attaching a cost to pollution. MEXICO2 also seeks to have investors fund environmental projects aimed at curbing greenhouse gases. "Increasingly, investors are...
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AUDIO: Carbon price floor is 'useful revenue'
2013-11-27 11:38:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's environment and energy analyst, Roger Harrabin, reports on the carbon price floor that George Osborne is under pressure to scrap.
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Brazil has the worlds weirdest carbon footprint
2013-11-27 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: Unlike just about every other developing country`s carbon print, Brazil`s greenhouse gas emissions are falling--fast. That`s according to an independent study (link in Portuguese) carried out by over 30 non-government organizations focused on climate change, including the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace. Brazil`s emissions for 2012 dropped 5% from a year earlier, and registered as the country`s lowest in 20 years, according to Observatorio do Clima, the network of NGOs that carried out the...
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China's Guangdong carbon market, world's second biggest, to start in December
2013-11-27 06:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Guangdong, China's most populous province with more than 100 million people, is to launch a carbon permits market next month that will be the world's second biggest after the European Union. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by up to 45 percent by 2020. Shanghai launched a carbon market on Tuesday and Beijing follows on Thursday. The scheme in heavily industrialized Guangdong will cap carbon dioxide emissions...
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