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news.mongabay.com - 2 days ago
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Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces
carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about...
when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the world's ...
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Deforestation emissions should be shared between ...
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greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 40 hours ago
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A start-up in São Paulo aims to turn
the waste from Brazilian sugar cane production into pellets...
that can be burned in coal plants.
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Sugar Cane Waste as Pellet Fuel
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guardian.co.uk - 4 days ago
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guardian.co.uk —
A global emergency funding scheme to drastically reduce
the destruction of tropical rainforests over the next five...
years was announced by the Prince of Wales today, with the US pledging $275m (£165m) towards rainforest protection. The plan relies on ...
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Prince Charles announces funding scheme to protect ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 10 days ago
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Indo-Asian News Service: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and
his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said...
they have adopted a common position for the Copenhagen climate change summit that suggests, among other measures, the creation of a ...
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France, Brazil set common goals for Copenhagen climate ...
smh.com.au - 7 days ago
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In this article , we examined why, for
investors at least, ''peak oil'' theory was inconsequential. What...
really matters is the cost of getting the stuff out - or the ''marginal cost of production'', as the economists call it. Here we're going to ...
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Oil's rising production costs | Greg Hoffman
news.bbc.co.uk - 10 days ago
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BBC: The level of deforestation in the Amazon
has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on...
record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil's government says. According to the latest annual figures, just over 7,000 sq km was destroyed between July 2008 ...
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'Big drop' in Amazon deforestation
motherjones.com - 12 days ago
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Back in July, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put
a hold on Thomas Shannon, President Obama's nominee for...
ambassador to Brazil. Why? Not because he was unqualified or anything like that. It was because Shannon once questioned the value of import tariffs ...
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Reforming the Senate
planetsave.com - 7 days ago
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Greenpeace Brazil has released a report at the
World Social Forum in Belém showing that up to...
80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is due to an increase in raising cattle for human consumption. Brazil has quickly become the largest ...
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80% of Amazon Deforestation Stems from Cattle Ranching
google.com - 10 days ago
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Associated Press: Brazil and France endorsed a common
position on fighting global warming Saturday before next month's...
U.N. climate change conference, pledging to pursue the goal of reducing emissions to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. French ...
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France, Brazil unite behind common climate change ...
cleantech.com - 11 days ago
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Power and rail infrastructure provider is in discussions
with several key players in China, where it has...
launched new, more efficient boiler tech.
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Alstom on the hunt for CCS partners in China
news.mongabay.com - 6 days ago
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation [REDD] programs
that include landowners will conserve more habitat and ensure...
greater ecosystem services function than programs that focus solely on protected areas, report researchers from the ...
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Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of ...
motherjones.com - 8 days ago
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Top Stories GM's Rainforest Racket In Brazil, people
with some of the world's smallest carbon footprints are...
being displaced—so their forests can become offsets for SUVs. Mark Schapiro The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors They’re not just against health ...
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Bill McKibben
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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Brazil has been working to discourage the sale
of commodities like beef, soybeans and sugar from ranches...
and farms built on deforested land.
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Reducing Deforestation (and CO2) in Brazil
brazzilmag.com - 30 days ago
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Lula holds biodiesel samples The president of Brazil,
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, announced last week that...
the addition of 5% biodiesel to the diesel consumed in Brazil has been advanced in three years. The so-called B5, which was expected to start ...
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2010 Now: Brazil Anticipates 5% Biodiesel Addition to ...
re-nest.com - 28 days ago
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Sometimes (we hate to admit it) furniture made
from salvaged wood can be a little on the...
boring side. Sometimes the "organic" style dominates and the fun is a little lost. Not so with the furniture coming from Brazil design house Oficinaethos. Read ...
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Sustainable Furniture by Oficinaethos
telegraph.co.uk - 22 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Britain is less concerned about climate change than
any other country in the world according to a...
new survey.
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Britons least concerned about climate change
cleantech.com - 18 days ago
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Researchers are looking to identify genetic changes that
could help engineer new yeast strains, leading to more...
efficient bioethanol production.
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Genome structures hold secrets to boosting bioethanol ...
latimes.com - 16 days ago
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LA Times: Who could resent the attention being
showered on electric cars? Stylish and clean, they're the...
darling of the renewable-energy crowd, which is hailing the scheduled rollout of several e-powered models next year as a major blow against global ...
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Brazil raises cane over U.S. ethanol tariff
abc.net.au - 16 days ago
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Email Computer hackers cause major blackouts By Richard
Reynolds Posted November 8, 2009 21:18:00 An official with...
Brazil's electricity regulator has confirmed that large scale blackouts in 2005 and 2007 were caused by people hacking into the ...
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Computer hackers cause major blackouts
guardian.co.uk - 14 days ago
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guardian.co.uk —
Brazil will take proposals for voluntary reductions of
38-42% by 2020 to the Copenhagen climate change conference...
next month, chief of staff says The Brazilian government is preparing to pledge a big curb in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as ...
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Brazil pledges deep emission cuts in 'political gesture' ...
