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04.08.2011
Official says carbon caps real possibility
BEIJING - China is likely to soon begin a campaign to limit the absolute amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries in certain regions, a senior climate official told a forum on Wednesday.
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03.08.2011
EU carbon oversold but could fall further
(Reuters) - The European Union's benchmark carbon price fell to its lowest level in two and a half years on Wednesday and even though the market looks oversold there could be further downside, technical analysis shows.
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02.08.2011
Durban climate talks: The shape of things to come?
Major climate talks in Durban at the end of the year will be unlikely to strike agreement on a new pact, but will be important in determining the shape of long-term efforts to tackle climate change, a senior United Nations climate official said on Tuesday.
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01.08.2011
UN calls for dev’t ‘overhaul’ using green technologies
ECONOMIES WORLDWIDE must start using "green" technologies to overhaul production processes in their effort to end poverty while averting the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, said a United Nations (UN) report launched in the Philippines on Monday.
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01.08.2011
Call for Kyoto ‘legal bridge’ in climate talks
THE coming United Nations (UN) climate talks in Durban must deliver a mechanism to work around the Kyoto Protocol, to fill any legal vacuum left if the protocol’s first commitment period expired before a second was in place, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Friday.
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31.07.2011
Has Climate Change Increased Seasonal Allergies?
It may be good news for the makers of Kleenex and Claritin, but it’s bad news for us: a recent study suggests that severe seasonal changes may lead to higher levels of outdoor airborne allergens and increased allergy susceptibility among infants and babies in utero. This is especially true in industrialized nations.
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30.07.2011
Climate change project kicks off
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The AsianCitiesAdapt, a project that brings together science and policy to address climate change issues in four pre-identified cities each in the Philippines and India, was launched recently in this city.
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30.07.2011
Mexico's Small-Scale Farmers Gain Entry to Global Carbon Markets
When Mexico's Bosque Sustentable AC sold the first voluntary carbon credits from its Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in 2006, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) didn't yet exist, and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) hadn't yet approved a single forestry project under its CCB Standard.
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28.07.2011
Climate change brings tea and apricots to Britain
(Reuters) - British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside.
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27.07.2011
Climate unit releases virtually all remaining data
The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid.
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27.07.2011
Most of Keys may be lost to sea by 2100
South Florida can't afford to ignore growing dangers from pollution-fueled climate change, according to new findings from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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26.07.2011
Climate change talks "fail to deliver real solutions"
Today representatives from 35 countries met in Auckland to discuss action on climate change as part of the continuing United Nations negotiations on the issue. Unfortunately these talks, like the two decades of talks on this issue which proceed them, are not likely to result in real action to prevent climate change, and in fact are promoting dangerous fake climate solutions which today are already harming more people than climate change itself.
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26.07.2011
Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change
Climate change advocates haven't had much to celebrate recently, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week that he was giving $50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign marked a real win. The Sierra Club — the nation's largest environmental group — has successfully stopped more than 150 proposed coal plants from being built over the past decade through the campaign. Bloomberg's money — and perhaps more importantly, the imprimatur of one of the richest and most influential people in the country — will enable the Sierra Club to bring its war on coal to a new level, preventing untold millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from warming the planet.
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25.07.2011
Carbon capture and utilisation could make economic sense
Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a growing boost for crops. Put into tanks of algae, it can be used to make biofuels. Waste carbon dioxide can even be cleaned up to "food grade" and injected into fizzy drinks.
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