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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link]. Perspective by Brian J.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

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by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read. As a civilization, we have committed ourselves to electricity and we must make cleaner electricity. Let’s go all the way – immediately – and commit to electric transportation.

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Electric Cars and The Volt by Seth Leitman

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By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition. Electric Cars and The Volt Can Transform America and the Auto Industry TODAY!!! So, what is there to do?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Remember its PURE D.C.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.