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• Carbon debt and climate justice: Moving on from Durban

  
  The Antipode Foundation — Authority: 102
  by Sara Nelson , University of Minnesota Carbon prices fell to record lows on 5 January, with declines driven by the Eurozone debt crisis and an over-allocation of credits in Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) (Blas 2011; Szabo 2012a). The price of carbon has fallen 70% since May to make it “one of the ...
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• Can Solar Energy Lower the Cost of Carbon Capture?

  
  Earth & Industry — Authority: 496
  Researchers at the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi chart a promising course toward cheaper carbon capture Looming above a test plot full of mirrors like some kind of Transformer -inspired arachnid, the tower at the center of Masdar Citys concentrating solar power plant is almost menacing at first glimpse. Although ...
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• Abu Dhabi Moves Ahead on Big Carbon Capture Project

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 530
  Masdar Carbon, one of the five business units of Masdar, the Abu Dhabi national clean energy conglomerate, announced yesterday in Abu Dhabi that it is moving ahead with a carbon capture and sequestration facility that will capture nearly 1 million tons of CO2 annually at the Emirates Steel complex at Mussafah. The ...
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• NASA Study Says Air Pollution Controls Could Slow Climate Change and Boost Agriculture Yield

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 693
  A recent NASA study completed in New York City at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) found that fourteen key air pollution control measures could not only help to curb climate change, but could improve agricultural yields and cut up to 4.7 million premature deaths worldwide if implemented. The ...
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• New Greenhouse Regs for Power Plants: Will EPA Go to Extremes?

  
  Facts About Ethanol — Authority: 120
  Greenwire  (subscription required) reports that EPA has sent its proposed regulation establishing greenhouse gas (GHG)  New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for new and modified power plants to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The stringency of the regulation is unknown to outsiders at ...
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• Carbon’s strange loop: Oil and emissions credits at Durban

  
  The Antipode Foundation — Authority: 102
  by Sara Nelson , University of Minnesota One outcome of the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Durban is particularly revealing for efforts to understand the ‘new carbon economy’ ( see Antipode 43:3 ), signalling that it involves not simply ‘end-of-the-pipe’ regulation of emissions, but a complex ...
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• Pull CO2 straight from the air? Sure … for a $10/gallon gas tax

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 465
  The author of the first-ever university textbook on carbon capture says it might one day make sense to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and store it away somewhere to minimize the risks of climate change. For now, though, chemical-based carbon “scrubbing” of the air would be insanely expensive ...
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