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Fears mount over Japan's carbon target
2013-02-05 06:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: One of the world's most ambitious emission reduction targets could be dropped, after Japan's recently elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a government panel he wanted to water down the country's commitment to cutting emissions 25 per cent by 2020. According to reports in the Japan Times, Abe confirmed that following his landslide victory late last year he would revise the previous government's energy policy, which had been widely praised by green groups due to its commitment to renewable energy...
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Sea urchin nickel 'trick' could be key to capturing carbon
2013-02-05 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Researchers say that the natural ability of sea urchins to absorb CO2 could be a model for an effective carbon capture and storage system. Newcastle University scientists discovered by chance that urchins use the metal nickel to turn carbon dioxide into shell. They say the technique can be harnessed to turn emissions from power plants into the harmless calcium carbonate. The research is in the journal, Catalysis Science and Technology. Many sea creatures convert carbon dioxide in the...
New Research Will Help Shed Light On Role Of Amazon Forests In Global Carbon Cycle
2013-02-04 09:48:24| pollutiononline News Articles
The Earth’s forests perform a well-known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.
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U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall to Lowest Level Since 1994
2013-02-01 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The continuing expansion of renewable energy technologies, advances in energy efficiency, and the rapid shift from coal to natural gas for generating electricity combined to bring down U.S. carbon dioxide emissions last year to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report said that CO2 emissions fell 13 percent in the last five years alone, which means that the U.S. is now more than halfway toward reaching President Obamas goal of cutting emissions...
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New protocol recommendations for measuring soil organic carbon sequestration
2013-02-01 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Debra Levey Larson dlarson@illinois.edu 217-244-2880 University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA - Increased levels of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), have been associated with the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, cultivation of grasslands, drainage of t…
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