Carbon War Room

Flannery in-depth on PNG's logging boom
ABC Online
Its in population terms, it is about a quarter the size of Australia and in land area about one tenth the size or less but it has emissions about one third as great as Australia and that is largely because of deforestation. So this is increasingly an ...

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Bretford Reinforces Commitment to Sustainability by Achieving CarbonNeutral ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
As a result, Bretford is reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through internal reductions and changes in manufacturing. Following internal efficiency measures, for each remaining ton of GHG emissions that Bretford produces, it is purchasing a ...

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The Key to Addressing Climate Change: Indigenous Knowledge
National Geographic
In addition, poorly designed and implemented climate change adaptation initiatives, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD/REDD+), often weaken the customary rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and natural resources ...

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Sky Bingo helping to tackle climate change
Casino City Times
Deforestation creates up to a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - that's as much as all the world's cars, planes, trains and ships put together. In Acre alone, deforestation between 1996 and 2005 generated around 22 million tonnes of CO2 ...

Center For American Progress
A price to be paid with over-regulation
The Hill (blog)
This started gradually, with new mandates over carbon dioxide emissions, and now - three years later - has coalesced into a nightmare of complicated standards which have forced thousands of small businesses to devote time, money, and massive cuts to ...
Energy And Environment Update -- February 5, 2012JD Supra (press release)

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Tanzania to benefit from $500 million climate funds
The Citizen Daily
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). In an exclusive interview with The Citizen last week, the Norwegian ambassador to Tanzania, Ms Ingunn Klepsvik, said her country has set aside a total of $500 million (Sh800 billion) ...
Bulk of Redd Payments to Benefit CommunitiesAllAfrica.com

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Bretford Reinforces Commitment to Sustainability by Achieving CarbonNeutral(R ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As a result, Bretford is reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through internal reductions and changes in manufacturing. Following internal efficiency measures, for each remaining ton of GHG emissions that Bretford produces, it is purchasing a ...

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Paid for Keeping the Forest Alive
AllAfrica.com
"If we empower communities with skills to protect forests, we will stop deforestation and poverty escalation," said Dr Felician Kilahama, Director of Forestry and Beekeeping at Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. He was speaking to members of ...

Bulk of Redd Payments to Benefit Communities
AllAfrica.com
By Finnigan Wa Simbeye, 6 February 2012 GOVERNMENT has agreed to let 80 per cent of payments done under Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to go to communities which protect forests. An official from Africa Wildlife Foundation, ...
Tanzania to benefit from $500 million climate fundsThe Citizen Daily

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Yale professor addresses climate change policy
RU Daily Targum
Nadine Unger, assistant professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, looks to change the current climate policy by informing students about the short-term factors that contribute to climate change.

Caribbean Journal
Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy Gets IDB Boost
Caribbean Journal
Guyana's REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Investment Fund, dubbed GRIF, was established in October 2010 in order to fund projects of the country's low-carbon strategy. The project will strengthen the technical and ...

Super Bowl 2012 = Greenest Super Bowl Ever? (Infographic)
CleanTechnica
Buying carbon offsets to cover the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the AFC and NFC Super Bowl teams' air and ground travel. Supporting urban forestry programs in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl and in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.

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Sky Bingo Help Tackle Climate Change With Their Latest Promotion
Sacramento Bee
Deforestation creates up to a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - that's as much as all the world's cars, planes, trains and ships put together. In Acre alone, deforestation between 1996 and 2005 generated around 22 million tonnes of CO2 ...

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Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Brazil's president and Congress could avoid backslide for Amazon protection
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
With global emissions from deforestation contributing about 15% of greenhouse gas emissions – as much as all the world's cars, trucks, ships and airplanes combined – a lot is at stake in next month's vote on a forest protection law in Brazil's House of ...

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Sky Bingo Help Tackle Climate Change With Their Latest Promotion
MarketWatch (press release)
Deforestation creates up to a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - that's as much as all the world's cars, planes, trains and ships put together. In Acre alone, deforestation between 1996 and 2005 generated around 22 million tonnes of CO2 ...

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A Satellite to Feed the World?
ThePigSite.com
The recent decision by the US Geological Survey (USGS) to provide Landsat imagery free of charge has led to an explosion in applications, enabling unprecedented study of global deforestation, changes in cropping systems and irrigation practices, ...

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Mongabay.com
Environmental news - setbacks for the palm oil industry, climate outlook darkens
Mongabay.com
Both the US and the EU ruled that conventionally-produced palm oil-based biodiesel does not meet low carbon fuel standards due to emissions from deforestation and peatlands degradation. The decisions were immediately criticized by palm oil producers in ...

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Deadline News
EU biofuel targets will cost £100bn without reducing emissions
Deadline News
Stan Blackley, Chief Executive, Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “We already know that demand for biofuels is leading to deforestation and increased greenhouse gas emissions through land use changes, while also pushing up global food prices and ...

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Where am I? > Home > Climate > Carbon Source or Carbon Sink: ...
Environmental News Network
Much excess CO2 emissions from industrialized regions find their way to the equator to be absorbed by abundant CO2-consuming plant life. However, as large tracts of tropical rainforest are cut down in the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia, worries have ...

eco-business.com
Forest conservation policies: what works and what doesn't
eco-business.com
By : Jenny Marusiak Policymakers looking to reduce deforestation in their countries have the right tools to do so today, but without a solid foundation in good governance and consistent policies, they will not be successful, said a prominent policy ...
10 rules for making REDD+ projects more equitableMongabay.com

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