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Russia Considers Domestic Carbon Market in Global Warming Fight
2014-03-12 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Russia is considering a domestic carbon market to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and may start providing poorer nations with cash to cope with global warming, according to the countrys climate negotiator. We would like to elaborate our domestic market and eventually make it link into other markets, Oleg Shamanov said in an interview today in Bonn, where United Nations-led climate talks are being held this week. Russia may channel some money to the UNs Green Climate Fund, set up to help finance...
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Model Uses Ocean Food Web to Assess Global Carbon Export
2014-03-12 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Researchers have used the lowest members of the ocean food web in a novel model for assessing the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle. This graphic shows the global carbon budget with black arrows and values reflecting the natural carbon cycle and red the anthropogenic perturbation. Researchers have used the lowest members of the ocean food web in a novel model for assessing the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle. Oceanographer David Siegel, the director of the Earth Research Institute...
World's forests could hold 20 pct more carbon than previously thought - study
2014-03-12 17:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's forests could hold 20 percent more carbon than previously thought, according to a study released on Tuesday. If correct, that extra 125 billion tonnes of carbon could lead to an increase in the number of forest-based carbon credits set to be offered in carbon markets around the world. Forests are considered sinks of carbon as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to reduce the concentration of the top heat-trapping gas. Deforestation reduces the number of trees...
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McConnell dares Democrats on carbon tax
2014-03-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday morning responded to Democrats' climate change all-nighter by daring them to bring legislation to the Senate floor. Senate Democrats held a 14-hour talkathon on the Senate floor to "wake up" Congress to the threat of climate change, but are not pushing any legislation on a carbon tax for the nation's biggest polluters. Maybe, as some speculate, Senate Democrats were just trying to please the Left Coast billionaire who plans to finance...
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Emissions Pioneer Losing Clout as EU Ban Looms: Carbon & Climate
2014-03-11 11:52:07| Steel - Topix.net
Thirteen years after the United Nations set up the first carbon emissions market, the global trading system's influence is waning as it gives way to local and regional plans to combat climate change.
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