November 19, 2009
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Air & Climate Newsletter November 19, 2009 |
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Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 per cent since 2000
The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ‘sinks’ to absorb carbon is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last 50 years the average fraction of global CO2 emissions that remained in the atmosphere each year was around 43 per cent — the rest was absorbed by the Earth’s carbon sinks on land and in the oceans. During this time this fraction has likely increased from 40 per cent to 45 per cent, ... |
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US climate bill to boost economy by US$111bn
As Republican Senators attempt to delay proposed climate change legislation on the grounds that it could harm the country`s economy, a major study from three influential universities suggests that a robust climate bill would have the exact opposite effect and would boost GDP by $111bn (£66bn) by 2020. The study, which was undertaken by research teams at the University of California Berkeley, Yale and Illinois, also indicates that action to roll out an emissions cap-and-trade scheme and accelerate the adoption of clean technologies could create between 918,000 and 1.9 million US jobs. Meanwhile, ... |
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