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Sorting the semiconducting wheat from the metallic chaff: Carbon nanotubes get closer to industrial purity
2013-11-11 16:35:19| Extremetech
Sorting and building carbon nanotubes has been difficult for years thanks to sorting issues. A new method for separating them has been developed that only requires a dry cell battery as opposed to a centrifuge.
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U.N. climate panel corrects carbon numbers in influential report
2013-11-11 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nation's panel of climate experts revised estimates of historical greenhouse gas emissions, made in September, both up and down on Monday but said the errors did not affect conclusions that time was running out to limit global warming. More heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels are forecast in the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC), which guides governments on shifting towards cleaner energy sources. The panel had hoped to avoid more corrections...
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EU freezes vast raft of carbon credits
2013-11-11 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sky News: The EU says it will temporarily freeze 900 million tonnes of carbon emissions quotas to revive prices on its ill-fated CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to reduce pollution. The agreement to 'backload', or postpone the release of these credits to the market until 2020, is intended to raise prices for the pollution quotas traded by more than 11,000 industrial entities, the bloc's Lithuanian presidency and Climate Action Commissioner announced on Friday. Despite a rally on the back of the decision,...
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Mexico's exchange to launch platform carbon trading
2013-11-11 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mexico's stock exchange said on Friday it will launch an electronic platform to trade carbon credits, opening a new environmental market in the Americas and looking to profit from new low-carbon legislation in Mexico. Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) and its partners in the project said they will hold a presentation on Nov. 26 at the exchange's auditorium, in Mexico City, to detail the mechanism called MEXICO2. The exchange did not elaborate on the initiative, but a source familiar with the...
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Demand For Forest Carbon Offsets Rises As Forestland Under Carbon Management Grows
2013-11-11 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Management: Carbon finance supported the management of forests spanning 26.5 million hectares worldwide as businesses in 2012 injected a near-record $216 million into projects that plant trees, avoid deforestation, improve forest management and support low-carbon agriculture. These projects, a key defense against the ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate change, were financed by the sale of 28 million tonnes of carbon offsets, according to the 2013 State of the Forest Carbon Markets report released...
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