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Carbon counter offers real-time global emissions data
New Yorkers are to receive real-time information on the rising level of greenhouse gases in the Earth`s atmosphere, via a giant 70-feet-tall digital billboard outside Madison Square Garden and Penn Station.
The billboard, which is being touted as the world`s first scientifically valid, real-time indicator of carbon emissions, was officially unveiled last week by Deutsche Bank`s Asset Management division and a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
At the unveiling, the billboard showed there are currently 3.64 trillion tonnes of long-lived greenhouse ... |
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Small farmers could cash in on carbon monitoring, says SciDev.net
Developing world communities could become part of the multi-billion dollar carbon market if a project to assess the amount of carbon locked up in soils proves successful.
The three-year Carbon Benefits Project, launched by the UN Environment Programme, will measure carbon in the land and trees of small farms in China, western Kenya, Niger and Nigeria.
`The project could open the market to millions of farmers, foresters and conservationists in the developing world,` says Peter Gilruth, director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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