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Environmentalists Divided About Burying CO2

By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming.


The Beetle Factor in a Carbon Calculus

By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Henry Fountain, The New York Times–Natural events can upset a forest’s carbon calculus. By killing trees by the thousands, widespread insect infestations can do the same thing. But rarely have insect blights been considered when determining a forest’s carbon balance.


Greece Suspended From UN Kyoto Carbon Trading

By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters , ENN.com–Greece has been suspended from U.N. carbon trading in an unprecedented punishment for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, officials said on Tuesday.


EU Heads for Climate Talks With China

By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The European Commission’s biggest-ever delegation to China heads for Beijing this week, hoping to progress from words to action on China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions and its tense trade ties with Europe. China has shot to the top of the EU’s priorities after the country’s sudden emergence as a global economic power.


135 Million Tons of CO2 Saved – And Counting

By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol is sometimes considered a bust because it doesn’t include the US, yet recent statistics from Det Norske Veritas, the certifying agency of Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the developing world, are heartening Earth Day news.