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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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In June, journalist Nick Davies published three well-researched articles in the Guardian newspaper which were highly critical of the Clean Development Mechanism, emissions trading and the voluntary carbon offset market.
2 June, 2007
The Clean Development Mechanism, which is supposed to offset greenhouse gases emitted in the developed world by selling carbon credits from elsewhere, has been contaminated by gross incompetence, rule-breaking and possible fraud by companies in the developing world, according to UN paperwork, an unpublished expert report and alarming feedback from projects on the ground.
Read the full story here.
2 June, 2007
This article suggests that carbon trading has earned fortunes for speculators and for some of the companies which produce most greenhouse gases and yet, through a combination of teething troubles and multiple forms of malpractice and possibly fraud, it has delivered little or no benefit for the environment.
Read the full story here.
16 June, 2007
Even the most well-intentioned schemes suffer from basic weaknesses in the idea of carbon offsetting - an idea which flows not from environmentalists and climate scientists trying to design a way to reverse global warming but from politicians and business executives trying to meet the demands for action while preserving the commercial status quo.
Read the full story here.
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2012 Carbon Trade Watch