June 24, 2010
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Air & Climate Newsletter June 24, 2010 |
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World`s first standard for deep-earth storage of industrial carbon emissions to be developed by CSA Standards and IPAC-CO2 Research
Toronto – CSA Standards, a leading developer of standards, codes and personnel certification programs, and the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.) today announced a joint agreement to develop Canada"s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) standard for the geologic storage of industrial emissions. The CCS standard will be developed by leading North American experts and, upon completion, will be submitted to the Standards Council of Canada for recognition, making it the world"s first formally recognized CCS standard in ... |
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Climate change will have `mixed` effect on Asian rivers
Two of Asia"s "water towers", the Brahmaputra and Indus river basins, are likely to be severely affected by climate change while others will be less affected and could even benefit, research on Asia"s rivers shows. One-fifth of the world"s population is dependent on water from the Brahmaputra, Indus, Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers — often referred to as Asia"s water towers — which are fed by melt water from the Himalayas. Until now it was thought that all the Asian river basins would be similarly impacted by climate change, which would both reduce the amount of water available ... |
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