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European Carbon Market in trouble
2013-01-27 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActive: EU carbon prices briefly slid 40% to a record low after politicians opposed plans to support the market, raising concerns prices could hit zero and sending a warning to European governments to pull together in lowering carbon emissions. Prices in the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Thursday (24 January) dropped to 2.81 a metric tonne after a vote in the European Parliament's energy and industry committee opposing a scheme known as "backloading" - or supporting prices by extracting allowances...
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Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel
2013-01-26 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: LAST fall, when Democrats and Republicans seemed unable to agree on anything, one bill glided through Congress with broad bipartisan support and won a quick signature from President Obama: the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011. This odd law essentially forbids United States airlines from participating in the European Union Emissions Trading System, Europes somewhat lonely attempt to rein in planet-warming emissions. Under that eight-year-old program, European power...
World Banks Kim Urges Governments to Get Behind Carbon Market
2013-01-26 03:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Jim Yong Kim urged governments to help establish a global carbon market as the effects of climate change threaten the worlds poor countries. In a November report the World Bank said that the earth risks cataclysmic changes caused by extreme heat waves, rising seas and depleted food stocks as it heads toward global warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century. I would like to see governments get behind a carbon market, Kim said in an interview with Simon Kennedy of Bloomberg News...
Low carbon resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change?
2013-01-26 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IIED: Low carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate policy. National governments and development partners are increasingly promoting an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously building climate resilience in a supposed win-win policy agenda says Susannah Fisher. Instead of talking about climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation, developed and developing national governments including Laos, Cambodia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Nepal are making plans...
K&N Racing Carbon Fiber Air Filter Airboxes Give Racers an Edge
2013-01-25 18:24:43| K&N Engineering, Inc. Air Filter, Air Intake, and other Product News
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