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Conservation scheme delivers carbon cash to poor Kenyans
2013-08-07 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For 14 years, Lalo Mwakupha played hide and seek with the authorities as he poached animals and burned charcoal in the 200,000-hectare Kasigau wildlife corridor separating Kenyas Tsavo East and West National Parks. Today, dressed in green ranger fatigues, the 35-year-old patrols the jungles he once plundered, arresting those now doing the same. Since April 2011, Mwakupha has been employed as an unarmed ranger by Wildlife Works (WW), a company that partners with local people to protect the wildlife...
Interpol warns of criminal focus on $176 billion carbon market
2013-08-07 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Responding to Climate Change: Carbon trading schemes are at acute risk from criminal gangs and fraud, a new report from Interpol warns. The police agency says uncertain regulations and a lack of oversight and transparency threaten the environmental and financial integrity of the worlds carbon markets, worth an estimated $176 billion. And it says that there is a risk that if financial instruments related to carbon trading become too complex, the worlds carbon markets could spark a financial crisis on par with 2008. The report...
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Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon
2013-08-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Large trees store store up to half the above-ground biomass in tropical forests, reiterating their importance in buffering against climate change, finds a study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. The research, which involved dozens of scientists from more than 40 institutions, is based on data from nearly 200,000 individual trees across 120 lowland rainforest sites in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It found that carbon storage by big trees varies across tropical forest regions, but...
Builders welcome offset plan for zero carbon homes
2013-08-07 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Builders could be allowed to buy carbon offsets from third parties to help meet a government target for all homes to be "zero carbon" by 2016. The Department for Communities and Local Government yesterday unveiled a consultation on so called "allowable solutions" - the offsite measures house builders can use to curb the emissions from new housing stock in England. Under the government's Zero Carbon Homes plan, house builders will be required to meet strict standards on energy efficiency by 2016...
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Calgon Carbon profit up, sales down in Q2
2013-08-06 20:34:57| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Pittsburgh-based manufacturer had net income of $12.97 million, or 24 cents a share, on revenue of $140.4 million in the second quarter.
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