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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. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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IATA Calls for Government-Industry Alignment on Aviation Emissions; Biofuels May be Certified by 2010

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for the aviation industry and governments to bring an aligned global approach on aviation carbon emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. drop in global carbon emissions from aviation.

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Researchers find “zip-lignin” native to multiple plant species; potential for new approaches to degrading lignin for biorefineries

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And Karlen wondered how angelica, or any plant for that matter, could be making the molecules that confer weak bonds in lignin but not incorporate them. Using a method that Ralph’s group had developed decades ago, plus a new and highly sensitive mass spectrometer, Karlen found a way to detect low levels of native zip-lignin in poplar trees.

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Intel's Open Source Strategy

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So, New Zealand to India to Europe to America back to New Zealand. There is an open-source Carbon Aware SDK that helps you build the carbon aware software solutions with the intelligence to use the greenest energy sources. Can I move my workloads around across the globe? And I think you are absolutely right.

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