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New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years - ProPublica
11 May 2012
A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, US, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the...
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Briefing about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
10 May 2012
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, (BECCS) has recently gained attention in national and international high level discussions on climate, as a supposedly viable means...
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How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for Nature bamboozled
7 May 2012
Christopher Booker (Telegraph) 7:00PM BST 05 May 2012
WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species. What a strange body the...
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El mercado de CO 2 : negocio para las fábricas, ruina para el Estado |...
2 May 2012
El mercado de emisión de CO2, que comenzó a aplicarse realmente en 2008, ha resultado un enorme negocio para la industria pesada. Cementeras, azulejeras, ladrilleras...,...
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Analysis: Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool
2 May 2012
Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a 'central...
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Hundreds of NGO's slam WWF for "greenwashing"
2 May 2012
Organizations across continents say the WWF did not involve stakeholders in shrimp farming standards development. Hundreds of NGOs in Asia, Latin America, Africa, North America...
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U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest
1 May 2012
The next time you buy wood, you may want to make sure it's not from Peru. According to an in-depth new report by the Environmental...
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Steer clear of this climate 'Ponzi scheme'
1 May 2012
LAST winter, when carbon prices fell 15% in one week, industry analysts called it "carnage". Then, in the fortnight before last month's Durban climate summit,...
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Bio-economy versus Biodiversity
27 Apr 2012
As U.S. President Obama announced his new "National Bioeconomy Blueprint" today, the Global Forest Coalition unveiled its report, "Bio-economy versus Biodiversity". The report highlights how...
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Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
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The World Bank’s Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change, a three-year ‘flexible’ framework for the Bank's institutions, makes a strong case for urgent action on global warming. It goes so far as to say that climate change will potentially undo development gains made in recent decades in many countries, implying that climate change can trump development, no matter how much money is spent trying to achieve the United Nations’ eight poverty-reducing Millennium Development Goals.
With this rhetoric, it appears that the Bank really wants to address climate change. But the Strategic Framework’s climate solutions suggest something different. In the name of technological and political neutrality, the Bank does nothing substantial to prioritize “new” renewable energy sources or decentralized, locally-driven mitigation or adaptation efforts. The Bank continues to stall on promises to account for its own greenhouse gas emissions, and it continues to increase financing for fossil fuels.
Author(s): Janet Redman
Contributor(s): Elizabeth Bast, Elena Gerebizza, Stephen Kretzman, Karen Orenstein, Daphne Wysham
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source: www.ips-dc.org/reports/#780
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2012 Carbon Trade Watch