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MIT analysts say European system for cutting CO2 emissions is working well
In a bid to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the European Union has been operating the world`s first system to limit and to trade carbon dioxide. Despite its hasty adoption and somewhat rocky beginning three years ago, the EU `cap-and-trade` system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to an MIT analysis.
The MIT results provide both encouragement and guidance to policy makers working to design a carbon dioxide (CO2)-trading scheme for the United States and for the world. A key finding may be that everything ... |
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European study catalogues impact of manmade climate change
Anthropogenic climate change, that is change derived from human activities, is making an indelible mark on the earth`s physical and biological systems. Based on data covering a 30-year period, an international team of researchers have catalogued for the first time in one place the array of changes that have occurred in the animal and plant kingdom as a result of human-generated climate change. Changes include shrinking glaciers, a decline in certain animal populations, changes in bird migration, and the early flowering of plants. The work was recently published in the journal Nature. `Humans are ... |
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