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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Donovan (20 December 2009). United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. About the Author.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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We’re also going to be talking about some developments we’re making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels. bg, (combining the 2009 and 2010 standards as proposed), or 1.10% of total fuel. For 2010, the cellulosic standard is being set at 6.5

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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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A key working group under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released its first official draft for a climate deal on Friday, 11 Dec 2009. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade? Reductions in Emissions. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

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

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The program limits, or “caps,” carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from large fossil-fuel-fired electric generating units, with the goal of stabilizing emissions from 2009 through 2014 to a level roughly equivalent to recent historical emissions. RGGI took effect and began regulating CO 2 emissions on January 1, 2009.

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