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China approves controversial nitrous dioxide carbon offsets
2014-01-26 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will allow big emitters to use offset credits from nitrous dioxide (N2O) destruction to meet domestic climate targets, giving its nod to a type of project that has been banned in other carbon markets. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published on Wednesday a list of more than 120 new types of projects eligible to earn carbon credits that can be sold to power generators and manufacturers facing emission caps under China's fledgling carbon markets. The list included destruction...
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Carbon dioxide levels now 61% higher than 1990
2014-01-04 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Global carbon dioxide emissions are likely to hit 36 billion tonnes in 2013, according to new research from the University of East Anglia in the UK. This is a small rise an estimated 2.1% -- on 2012, but it will be 61% above the levels in 1990, which is the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was agreed by most of the worlds concerned nations, anxious to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and contain warming to a global average of 2°C. So the 2013 carbon budget is not being...
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Forests Flatline On Trapping Carbon Dioxide With Temperature Rise, Study Shows
2013-12-19 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A four-degree-Celsius rise in the Earths surface temperature could max out the amount of carbon dioxide that forests can trap from the atmosphere, according to new research by a team of European researchers. Rainforests, such as the Amazon, act as natural carbon sinks, using up and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air to make food. While humans continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere, these sinks help maintain a balance by absorbing up to half of the total CO2 emitted globally. The...
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US carbon dioxide emissions drop 3.8 percent
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A mild winter, new car efficiency standards and the continued switch from power plants run by coal to those fueled by natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel, were behind a 3.8-percent drop in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2012, announced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration Monday (Oct. 21). The drop was the second largest since 1990, beat out by the drop of 7.1 percent in 2009, which was attributed in large part to the recession that hit the country that year. Emissions have dropped...
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U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 11%
2013-10-03 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the U.S. peaked at more than 1.6 billion tons of carbon in 2007. Since then they have fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tons in 2013, according to estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Emissions shrank rapidly during the recession, then bounced back slightly as the economy recovered. But shifting market conditions, pollution regulations and changing behaviors are also behind the decline. Oil is the largest...
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