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Carbon farming: it's a nice theory, but don't get your hopes up
2013-10-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the Blue Mountains burned last week, a grumble of local farmers gathered in Harden, on the south-west slopes of New South Wales. I met them in the middle of a wheat crop, hunched against the cold wind. It had been snowing in the ski fields as the state's rural fire service chief, Shane Fitzsimmons, predicted catastrophic bushfire conditions in greater Sydney area. While Tony Abbott and Christiana Figueres traded blows about the origins of the early bushfire season, I joined the farmers to...
Fruit Of The Loom's Carbon Footprint Verification By SCS Global Services Provides Baseline For Bold Program To Reduce GHG Emissions
2013-10-28 04:35:03| pollutiononline News Articles
SCS Global Services (SCS) has independently verifiedFruit of the Loom's 2012 North Americancarbon footprint
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Electrocomponents Significantly Improves Carbon Disclosure Score
2013-10-28 03:15:40| pollutiononline News Articles
Electrocomponents plc(LSE:ECM), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has significantly improved its carbon disclosure score as reported by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in its FTSE 350 Climate Change Report 2013
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How much carbon can UK burn to stay within two degrees target?
2013-10-25 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: One of the most eye-catching components of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPPC) latest report - besides the grave warnings of serious and escalating climate risks - was the decision to include a detailed carbon budget showing how much carbon the world can safely emit and stay within a 2C temperature rise. The report states that if the world is to have a 50:50 chance of limiting warming to no more than 2C, we can only emit around 1,100 billion tonnes of carbon (GtCO2) during...
Canada Won't Meet 2020 Carbon Emission Targets, Report Says
2013-10-25 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Canada is falling well short of its international commitment to reduce greenhouse gases and will need major new action to offset rising oil industry emissions and meet the 2020 target adopted by the Harper government, Environment Canada said Thursday. In its annual update, the government projected that, without new measures, the country's GHG emissions in 2020 will total 734 megatonnes, virtually unchanged from 2005 level of 737 megatonnes. It said the federal and provincial government policies...
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