Cold Arctic Air Causing Slow Arctic Melt | Real Science

Hansen says that the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth.  Dozens of other places are also the fastest warming place on Earth, but the Arctic is particularly important because Hansen has almost no thermometers there.

Citi to Purchase 1.17 Million Tonnes of Carbon Credits in Innovative Microfinance Deal with MicroEnergy Credits and Mongolia’s XacBank

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In a deal that combines microloans in Mongolia with the sale of carbon credits on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Citi’s London-based Environmental Products Trading and Origination team, working with Citi Microfinance, has agreed to purchase 1.17 million metric tonnes of carbon credits over the next seven years from Seattle-based social enterprise MicroEnergy Credits.