photo: Josh Beasley via flickr This one’s been inbound for a couple of years now, the United States objecting to the European Union’s plans to make foreign airlines start paying for the carbon emissionsM from landing and taking off there from 2012, but as the New York Times reports, the US is upping the pres… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Objects to Its Airlines Having to Pay For Their Pollution in EU Emission Trading Scheme
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We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we’ve built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal
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Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around
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photo: Duncan Harris via flickr Despite a Congressional mandate directing the Export-Import Bank of the United States to use 10% of its 2009-2010 financing towards renewable energy project, according to a US Government Accountability Office report the Bank will fall “well short of the 10% Congressional target”–as in only spending 2% on renewables. In fact right now in may back nearly 9 gigawatts of humungous coal-fired power plants in India and South Africa…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Govt May Back 9 GW of Coal Power Plants in India & South Africa, When It Should Support Renewables
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photo: Ben Carter File this one in the maybe someday category: At the national meeting of the American Chemical Society scientists have presented work on the potential of so-called ‘dry water’ to store gases, with an eye to store carbon emissions as well as act as a fuel carrier. Here’s the gist of it: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Today on Planet 100: The Great Australian Greenslide (Video)
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Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation’s emissions from deforestation actually occur outside of places officially designated as forests, the UN REDD program may actual reduce emissions in country far less than intended. The report finds that up to 600 million tons of emissions ar… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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REDD to Offer No Net Emission Reductions in Indonesia – Too Many Forested Areas Omitted by Government
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photo: praegerr via flickr Burning for some weeks now, the fires in Russia are not only causing Moscow’s daily death rate to double as smog engulfs the city, but are also emitting tons of greenhouse gas emissions as drained peatlands burn. What’s worse,
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Russia’s Peatland Fires May Continue Burning Underground Through Winter
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Through application to soil in farmer’s fields, biochar both can help increase soil fertility and store carbon emissions. Photo: Feral Arts via flickr. More new info on the potential of biochar to help combat climate change: A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that up to 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans could be offset by p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biochar Alone Could Offset 12% of All Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study
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This Car Runs on Poop: The Bio Bug
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Image via Encefalus Any respectable blogger working today is at least aware of the many social media websites that contribute to our articles reaching a wider audience: Reddit , Yahoo Buzz, Stumble Upon, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Digg . Digg is the most powerful ‘social media’ website — stories that get submitted there stand to be viewed by more people than anywhere else. Yet over the years, as I wrote story after story here at TreeHugger, I started noticing a trend — if my post directly concerned c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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