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Greenhouse gas emissions tracking
With initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Western Climate Initiative, tracking greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become a necessity for many organizations. To help our customers address this business need, Intelex developed a Greenhouse Gas Emission Tracking Module in 2008.Like all of Intelex’s systems and modules, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking Module is designed to be both ...
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Semiconductor and aluminium industries underestimate greenhouse gas emissions
Emissions of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) tetrafluoromethane (TFM) and hexafluoroethane (HFE) reported by industry accounted for only around half actual levels measured in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2010, new research reveals. The semiconductor and aluminium production industries, the two main sources of these gases, have reported success in their voluntary efforts to control these emissions. ...
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IUCN urges UK government to account for CO2 emissions from peatlands
Wetlands International supports the IUCN UK Peatland Programme’s request to the government of the United Kingdom to include Wetland Drainage and Rewetting in their national accounting of greenhouse gas emissions. Countries who are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and who wish to participate in a second commitment period (starting in 2013) must quickly decide which human activities they will ...
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Earth Networks - WeatherBug Showcasing Weather and Lightning Research and Technology Innovations at AMS 2013
Earth NetworksSM the operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks and owner of WeatherBug®, is presenting and exhibiting in Austin, Texas at the 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. From Monday to Thursday, company representatives will be at Booth #715 at the Austin Convention Center to discuss the company’s vast networks, scientific ...
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Masdar to pursue carbon reduction projects in Nigeria
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted future energy initiative wholly owned by the Mubadala Development Company, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) today reached agreement to identify and develop carbon emissions reduction projects in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). 'This strategic partnership reflects our ...
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Side event Bonn climate change conference: launch of the global ‘organic soils and Peatlands climate change mitigation initiative`
At the intersessional climate session of the United Nations in Bonn (13-25 May) Wetlands International will in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations organise a side event to launch the global ‘Organic Soils and Peatlands Climate Change Mitigation Initiative'. Date and time: Thursday 17 May 2012, 20.00 –21.30hrs Venue: Room ...
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EPA awards city of little rock $500,000 in climate showcase communities grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the City of Little Rock, Ark., is receiving $500,000 in Climate Showcase Communities grant funding. The project will implement an innovative program that partners with industry and its employees to achieve energy savings. Little Rock joins 22 other communities across the country receiving a total of $8.3 million in funding, including ...
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Forest carbon partnership facility launched at Bali climate meeting
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick launched a groundbreaking financing mechanism today to combat tropical deforestation and climate change. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was developed because forests are more important left standing than cut. It will reduce deforestation and forest degradation by compensating developing countries for carbon dioxide reductions realized ...
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Japan dials back climate change emissions target
Japan has drastically scaled back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, possibly complicating efforts to forge a global climate change pact. The new target approved by the Cabinet on Friday calls for reducing emissions by 3.8 percent from their 2005 level by 2020. The revision was necessary because the earlier goal of a 25 percent reduction from the 1990 level was unrealistic, the ...
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U.N. Clean Development Mechanism Approves Arcadia Biosciences Methodology, Links Carbon Credits to Crop Genetic Improvements for First Time
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced that the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has approved Arcadia’s methodology to allow farmers to earn carbon credits from reduced ...
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A `black magic` CO2 fix
Biochar is made by heating woody waste at high temperatures without oxygen, a process that also produces biogas and usable ‘bio-oil’, renewable energy sources. The stable black carbon-rich solid left after these are captured can remain in soil for up to 5000 years. Used in agriculture, it could increase crop production and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous ...
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Sustainable Energy Group Receives Grant to Transform Residential Housing
Buildings are the number one source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – especially in cities. In Boston, they account for 74 percent of the city’s carbon footprint. What if we could reduce this number dramatically, by building and renovating homes so that they produce more energy than they consume? A new effort now underway by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)is betting that we ...
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A different world than Kyoto
The argument that developing countries are taking no action to address climate change is wrong. With the target date for the Kyoto Protocol’s successor agreement still a year away, and a lame duck U.S. delegation in attendance, nobody expected a watershed moment at the recently concluded climate change conference (COP-14) in Poznan, Poland. While delegates made modest progress on some key issues, ...
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Commission welcomes outcome of Poznań conference on climate change
The European Commission welcomes the results of the UN climate change conference which ended today in Poznań, Poland. The conference kept on track the international process to conclude a new global climate agreement at the end of next year in Copenhagen. It took a series of decisions including work programmes for 2009 which will accelerate the negotiations. Parties also reached a solution to ...
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Background: 3C - Combat Climate Change - A Business Leaders’ Initiative
The 3C Initiative aims at forming a global opinion group consisting of companies showing leadership by demanding an integration of climate issues into the world of markets and trade facilitated by means of a global framework coming into force in 2013. Many of the companies signing the 3C Initiative also take part in other activities on climate change such as the World Economic Forum’s G8 Climate ...
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Climate change and the EU`s regions
Led by cities, EU regions are playing a frontline role in the fight against climate change as they make key investment decisions regarding the new generation of clean energy and transport projects. MILESTONES Early 2011: Commission to present a new Energy Efficiency Action Plan. By 2020: EU to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20%, source 20% of its energy consumption for renewables and use ...
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EU Council of Ministers conclusions on climate change
Council Conclusions on climate change2826th ENVIRONMENT Council meetingLuxembourg, 30 October 2007 The Council adopted the following conclusions: 'The Council of the European Union, 1. RECALLS the (Environment) Council conclusions of 20 February 2007 as well as the 2007 Heads of State and Government Spring European Council conclusions which contain an outline of the essential elements of an ...
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