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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. On-site blending pumps, in lieu of splash blending, are used for this test.

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Police: Former AutoNation staffer took greater than $100K from shoppers, by no means delivered automobiles

Baua Electric

A former AutoNation Honda Miami Lakes finance supervisor has been arrested upcoming allegedly amassing greater than $100,000 in offers for automobiles he by no means produced. A staffer on the Florida dealership on Friday stated Ravelo not labored there; police stories counsel Ravelo was once suspended and after fired.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. If we followed Gainsville Florida’s lead and voted in feed-in tariffs people would be renting roof space to put up more solar. He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” And this is boring.

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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

Green Car Congress

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. But starting to raise immediate finance is more important than determining its exact future size.

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

Green Car Congress

Auction revenues may be used for the public good by allocating the allowance value to: households as dividends; financing investments and other public expenditures; and. nationals and legal residents. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Information from the auction to be revealed to the public.

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