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| Kyoto Basket |
Under the Kyoto Protocol, Parties have committed to control emissions of a ‘basket’ of six GHGs. This ‘basket’includes carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, HFCs,PFCs and SF6. The arrangement is meant to give the flexibility which would enable a Party to increase emissions of any gas in the ‘basket’ provided commensurate reductions were made in another gas in the ‘basket’. |
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New global carbon map for 2.5 billion ha of forests 2.5-billion-ha carbon map shows forests store 250B tons of carbon Forest carbon stock Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon — more than 30 years' worth of current emissions ... + READ MORE |
Is Indonesia’s Program to Stop Deforestation in Meltdown? Back in December, I wrote an article for Mother Jones about Indonesia's efforts to reduce its levels of deforestation and, by extension, its greenhouse gas emissions, which are the third highest in the world, trailing ... + READ MORE |
More Than 20 Years of Forest Carbon Yield Plenty of Lessons for InvestorsIt's more than two decades since a handful of environmental non-profits and green industrialists first began experimenting with mechanisms that slow global warming by funding the preservation of rainforests. In the ensuing decades, we've ... + READ MORE |
Palm oil giant vows to spare most valuable Indonesian rainforest Golden Agri-Resources – the world's second highest palm oil producer – bows to pressure from the west The world's second biggest palm oil company has agreed to halt deforestation in valuable areas of Indonesian forest, bowing to pressure ... + READ MORE |
Prince Charles: 'direct relationship' between ecosystems and the economy At an EU meeting in Brussels, dubbed the Low Carbon Prosperity Summit, the UK's Prince Charles made the case that without healthy ecosystems, the global economy will suffer. "We have to see that there ... + READ MORE |
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Poor will pay the price to cut carbon emissions While Australians grapple with the idea of putting a price on carbon, in many developing countries the choice looks more like a trade-off between national development out of poverty a... + READ MORE |
World off course on climate; renewables vital (Reuters) - The world is off course in fighting climate change and governments need to boost green energies to build new momentum, the head of the U.N. panel of climate ... + READ MORE |
Non-Aligned Movement vital to battle against climate change, Ban says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of more than 100 countries to assist in “urgent global action” to combat the threat posed by climate change. ... + READ MORE |
Nauru will use UN spotlight to confront developed world over climate change The smallest nation in the UN is about to take the AOSIS chair at a time when low-lying coastal countries are gravely threatened Last month I returned to Nauru, ... + READ MORE |
Japan wants new CO2 offset scheme to complement U.N. (Reuters) - Japan's idea for a new carbon offset scheme would complement an existing U.N. mechanism and make it easier for developing countries to access ... + READ MORE |
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