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• Japan steelmakers buy less CO2 offsets than thought

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese steel makers now calculate carbon credits they have bought from abroad at 56 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, a business lobby said on Tuesday, down 3 million tonnes from their previous estimate. Continue Reading on Reuters
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• New crossing will not bridge gap on CO2 emission targets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Edinburghnews.scotsman.com | THE article “Trams will find it’s not easy being green” (News, 12 November) refers to the “largely discredited” assertion of the Scottish Government earlier this year that the Edinburgh trams will actually increase CO2 emissions whereas another Forth road bridge ...
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• SBY can rally support for legally binding CO2 cuts

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Thejakartapost.com | President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono made it clear at a press conference after the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Monday in Singapore that Indonesia would fight for a legally binding carbon emissions cut target at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen ...
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• Gov’t Targets 30% Reduction in Carbon Emissions

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From English.chosun.com | The government decided on a greenhouse gas reduction goal of 30 percent below the business-as-usual (BAU) forecast by 2020 in a Cabinet meeting presided over by President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday. The BAU estimate is the projected amount of emissions that Korea will produce if ...
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• Climate Change ‘More Alarming Than Ever’ Claim UK Groups

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 119
  BBC News, November 24, 2009Three UK groups studying climate change have issued a strong statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the world.The Royal Society, Met Office, and Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) say the science of climate change is more alarming than ...
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• Nissan Signs First U.S. Commercial Lease for its Hydrogen Fuel Cell SUV

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
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• Tesla Opens Store in Monaco, Its Third in Europe Behind London and Munich

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Tesla Motors opened a regional sales and service center in Monaco on Tuesday, bringing to three the number of European showrooms the young electric-car maker has opened. The Monaco store ( pictured ), located in the Golden Square of the State, will serve all of southern Europe.
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• Government guarantees: technology to avert climate change?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 432
  Author: Ann Henderson-Sellers, Macquarie University Today climate change is no longer about ‘if’ but about ‘how bad’. There is no way that the large and unexpected jumps frequently being experienced could be occurring in an unchanging climate. For example, in Australia over the past 24 months we have seen: 15 ...
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• Research suggests flax and Brassica as bioethanol resources

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  Some Spanish researchers and their Dutch counterparts carried out two different studies that suggest that agricultural residue from flax and Brassica carinata crops, a plant that bears yellow flowers, can be exploited for bioethanol production. Gonzalez-Garcia, working on the research with the University of Santiago ...
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• California Drafts its Own Cap-and-Trade Plan

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 635
  The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has issued a preliminary draft (PDF) of the nation’s first cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse (GHG) emissions, which is likely to influence federal regulations, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Greenspace blog.The carbon scheme would cap emissions of large emitters ...
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• KLM flies first biofuel flight

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 142
  The first biokerosene-powered passenger flight of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines had flown on Monday. The KLM flight, with 40 people on board, took off and landed at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam. The flight was the first of its kind in Europe. The Boeing 747 flight, which circled the Netherlands for one hour and 30 ...
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• Official: Obama going to Copenhagen climate summit (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 155
  WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit. The president will attend the summit on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize , the ...
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• US Announcing Target for Cutting Carbon Emissions at UN

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 119
  RICHARD BLACK, BBC News, November 24, 2009The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit, according to a White House official.The target is expected to be in line with figures contained in legislation before the Senate – a reduction of about 17-20% from ...
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• Europe extends van CO2 emissions deadline

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Businesscar.co.uk | Van makers facing heavy fines for missing tough new targets on CO2 limits have gained a major reprieve from the European Commission. The EC had drafted legislation that proposed a 175g/km CO2 limit for new vans registered from 2012, with hefty fines for non-compliance. The new ...
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• Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Britain’s Industrial Town Becomes Country’s Greenest City

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 142
  People of Newcastle have proved it that economic prosperity and heavy industry should be of no hindrance to make one’s city green and sustainable. Newcastle-upon-Tyne came as a surprise winner this year as it claimed top spot as greenest city in sustainability audit of Britain. The very fact that in the past it had ...
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• Brussels authorises loan to Ford Romania to build low-Co2 engine

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Visitbulgaria.info | The European Commission paved the way Friday for Ford Romania SA to access a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), which will help finance the development of a low-emissions engine at its Craiova plant. The EIB is lending a total of 600 million euros (896 million dollars) ...
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• India has not changed stand on climate negotiations: Minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) India has taken a credible and consistent position in international negotiations on climate change, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Tuesday.In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Ramesh told the parliament’s upper house: “India’s position is ...
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• What Nick Smith really thinks of the ETS

  
  No Minister — Authority: 573
  Sometimes, and it happens rarely, Labour has a point. The importance of getting this legislation right cannot be overstated. [The development of an ETS] represents the most significant economic reform since the deregulation of the economy in the late 1980s. Getting this bill right is also important for the ...
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• Comment of the day

  
  No Minister — Authority: 573
  Mine over at Farrars place , and repeated here in a blatant attempt at self-ingratiation. The problem here is actually very simple and can be summed up in one word: politicians. They decided we needed an intergovernmental panel. They paid the scientists on it. They then pork-barrelled their way to implementing ETS ...
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• Development of ECO Friendly Flame Retardant Bio-plastic by NEC

  
  Japan Technology Information — Authority: 134
  In recent years use of reproducible biomass based materials has been gaining popularity. Among this trend is use of bioplastic especially composites with polylactic acid that are being used in daily products such as fibers and utensils as well as such durable products as electronic equipment and automobiles. Having ...
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