Wednesday, March 27, 2013

China’s Longyuan nets $120 mln from carbon trading in 2012 - News - Point Carbon
BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters Point Carbon) - China’s Hong Kong-listed power company Longyuan earned 742 million RMB ($120 million) from selling carbon credits in 2012, a slight drop year-on-year despite a big increase in projects that produce the credits as market prices plunged.
Farmers fight cow farts to protect the climate | Environment
The UN has called for a tax on cattle emissions in order to reduce the environmental impact of cattle breeding.
...across [France], participating farmers are already seeing results. So far, The national scheme has managed to prevent 8,365 tonnes of carbon from entering the earth's atmosphere.
A Hot Topic: Climate Change Coming To Classrooms : NPR
By the time today's K-12 students grow up, the challenges posed by climate change are expected to be severe and sweeping. Now, for the first time, new nationwide science standards due out soon will recommend that U.S. public school students learn about the climatic shift taking place.
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"We've heard stories of students who learn about climate change," he says. "Then they go home and tell their parents, and everybody's upset because the parents are driving their kids to the soccer game, and the kids are feeling guilty about being in the car and contributing to this global problem."
Confidence In Green Investment Crumbles
[WSJ] Given all the interest in protecting the environment from mankind’s rapid advance, you’d think this might be the best time ever to invest in renewable energy and the Next Big Green Thing. Large parts of green-tech investment look like the torched and salted fields left behind by Roman conquerors: barren, lifeless—and bereft of a return on capital. Put another way: In some areas, if you aren’t already investor road kill, you’re likely the hedgehog in the headlights about to join your maker.

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