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Mexico launches first carbon exchange to cut CO2 emissions
2013-11-27 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mexico's stock exchange launched its first platform to trade carbon credits on Tuesday, a voluntary initiative that allows polluters to offset their emissions with tradeable certificates. The new platform, called MEXICO2, provides an electronic forum for certificates conferring the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide, thereby attaching a cost to pollution. MEXICO2 also seeks to have investors fund environmental projects aimed at curbing greenhouse gases. "Increasingly, investors are...
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Beijing confiscates barbecues in drive to cut air pollution
2013-11-27 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Beijing is waging a war against air pollution, one barbecue at a time. Officials have destroyed more than 500 open-air barbecues to cut particulate matter. Photos carried by state media showed workers cutting pieces of metal as city wardens looked on. A media officer at Beijing's Xicheng district administration bureau said hundreds of barbecue grills had been confiscated in a three-month campaign and cut up so they could not be used again. Ma Jun, an environmental campaigner, said residents...
What's In It For U.S. To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
2013-11-26 08:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The United Nations negotiations in Warsaw over a climate treaty are moving at a glacial speed - and that's in part because there's a fundamental problem. In the coming decades, carbon dioxide emissions from China, India and other rapidly developing countries are expected to grow rapidly. Residents there aspire to lifestyles Americans and Europeans enjoy today, and those nations aren't willing to slash emissions, because doing so could slow their rapid economic growth. With carbon dioxide on...
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Countries agree rules cut down pollution from deforestation
2013-11-25 09:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindustan Times: Almost eight years after the idea was first mooted, climate change negotiators have thrashed out an agreement of a deal to channelise funds necessarily for developing countries to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests. The agreement on what is popularly called the REDD+ initiative reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation now comes with the backing of pledges of $280 million in financing from the United States, Norway and...
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Cut Pinkeye With Oxygen Therapy
2013-11-25 01:08:00| Beef
Beef Producer Bob Bard thinks he may have figured how to use oxygen therapy on pinkeye in cattle. Bard, who is a North Texas optometrist and beef producer, says when his cattle have developed pinkeye in recent years he's been spraying ozonated, distilled water into the infected eye several times over a day or two. He says usually the eye clears right up. read more
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