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Atmospheric carbon levels hit record high... again
2013-11-06 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have hit another record high, according to the latest update from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The Geneva-based organisation's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin confirms average carbon dioxide concentrations reached 393.1 parts per million (ppm) in 2012, an increase of 2.2ppm compared to 2011, which is above the average annual increase for the past decade of 2.02ppm a year. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are now over 141 per...
Carbon credit scam firms closed
2013-11-06 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: More than a dozen companies that "preyed on older people" through carbon credit scams have been closed by the industry's regulator, a minister has announced. Consumer Minister Jo Swinson said the offending companies carried out a particularly contemptible scam More than a dozen companies that "preyed on older people" through carbon credit scams have been closed by the industry's regulator, a minister has announced. Nineteen firms that attracted investments of nearly 24m from more than 1,500...
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
2013-11-06 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Friends of Earth: The global convergence Reclaim Power, along with the No REDD in Africa Network, have named this week a week of action against false solutions. We offer this blog post as a contribution to that effort. In the landscape of global deforestation, a tension exists between policies and practices aimed at drawing a sharp halt to the exploitation of forests and forest peoples and those designed to stimulate a vaguely promised market shift toward more 'sustainable' extraction of an ever-dwindling resource....
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Carbon credit fraud firms closed
2013-11-06 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: More than a dozen companies that "preyed on older people" through carbon credit scams selling them as if they were shares or bonds, when they were worthless in that form have been closed by the industry's regulator. Nineteen firms that attracted investments of nearly 24m from more than 1,500 people by offering "worthless" carbon credits or certified emission reductions (CERs) were wound up by the Insolvency Service in the last 15 months. The consumer minister, Jo Swinson, said the...
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Australia: Shoppers warned: food prices may not fall when carbon tax is scrapped
2013-11-06 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Food and grocery prices may not fall when the carbon tax is repealed and struggling food manufacturers could be forced to continue to pay the tax in their power bills for 18 months after compensation schemes offered by the former Labor government had been abolished. The warning, from the Australian Food and Grocery Council, comes after cautions from electricity generators and retailers that they can't guarantee domestic power bills will fall by Tony Abbott's promised 9% and from the Australian...
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