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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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Most accepted carbon transactions in the world today occur based on standards that originated from the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Texas Parks and Wildlife; the Texas Coastal Exchange; the New Mexico Department of Agriculture; GSI Environmental Inc.;

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UK Doubling North Sea Rig Inspections; New Group to Report On UK Ability to Prevent and Respond to Spills

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In the wake of the ongoing Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico, UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said that the UK Government will increase its inspection of drilling rigs and monitoring of offshore compliance and has asked a new oil industry group to report back on its findings on the UK’s ability to prevent and respond to oil spills.

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CERA: Canadian Oil Sands Poised to Become the Top Source of Crude Imports to the US in 2010; Could Contribute Up To 36% of US Oil and Refined Products Imports by 2030

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Also certain fields in the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East have comparable GHG emissions. —“The Other environmental footprint concerns associated with oil sands development touched on by the IHS CERA report include water use; land disturbance and reclamation; and tailings. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”.

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UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

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Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid “ a major planetary catastrophe ,” according to a new United Nations report. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs. She realized that aerospace was a boom-and-bust industry, she says.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Frontex invited industry partners to demonstrate tethered surveillance balloons and now uses them in at least two locations to detect migrants who manage to get past its aerial and space-borne sensors. funds a bevy of projects that aim to stop people from reaching international or European waters. Member States,” says geographer.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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The economic viability of this technology still needs to be proven, and potential conflicts with traditional wood-based industries should be considered. However very few studies include water use impacts. In their paper on the impact of ethanol production on nutrient cycles and water quality, Simpson et al. Ravindranath et al.