Taking care of business
Tags: CARBON offsetting; BUSINESS enterprises -- Environmental aspects; CLIMATIC changes; FOSSIL fuels -- Environmental aspects; DEFORESTATION; INDIGENOUS peoples
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- Cash, kudos and energy efficiency. Bulleid, Roz // ENDS (Environmental Data Services);Mar2010, Issue 422, Special section p3
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The main focus of efforts to mitigate climate change is on the avoidance of fossil fuel emissions. However, the Kyoto Protocol rules permit the use of forestry activities that create carbon offset credits. These could obviate the need for lifestyle-changing reductions in fossil fuel use....
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- Going down in history. // New Internationalist;Jan/Feb2002, Issue 342, p20
Argues that the rich owe an enormous ecological debt to the poor. Building of the wealth of industrialized nations on the burning of fossil fuels; Causes of climate change and natural disasters; Cost of consumption of fossil fuels; Exploitation of fossil-fuel inheritance; Expected loss of the...
- Climate indebted. Jones, Tim // Red Pepper Magazine;Dec2009/Jan2010, Issue 169, p24
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- Untitled. // Utility Week;1/18/2008, Vol. 28 Issue 12, p31
A list of the articles included in an issue dedicated to the international frameworks being put in place to mitigate climate change and their domestic implications is presented, which includes domestic climate change legislation, the Carbon Reduction Commitment and government plans for...
