Carbon offsets 'doing harm'
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"Offsetting" carbon emissions by planting trees is doing more harm than good, a committee of MPs is told.
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A new report says people over 50 have the highest carbon footprint, but are also the most keen to combat climate change.
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The world's chief climate scientist on Tuesday disputed the U.S. government contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to check global warming.
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Mankind is to blame for global warming, the world's top climate scientists said on Friday, sending governments a "crystal clear" warning they must take urgent action to avert damage that could last centuries.
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VIENNA, Sep 20 (IPS) - Instead of providing positive incentives to  tropical nations to conserve their rainforests and so reduce  greenhouse gases emissions, the world indirectly gives  "perverse incentives" to destroy them by demanding goods  produced by intensive logging, a leading environmental activist  says.
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Any move by Congress to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would derail a controversial Bush administration plan to reduce other pollutants from coal-burning power plants, Republican lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced far more quickly, says a climate change research institute.
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Mankind is to blame for global warming, the world's top climate scientists said on Friday, sending governments a "crystal clear" warning they must take urgent action to avert damage that could last for centuries.
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Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going?
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Life & style: Ban move prompted by carbon footprint concern  'would mean lost jobs in developing countries'.
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UNITED NATIONS -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.The U.N.
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Rising levels of greenhouse gases may not be quite as bad for coral reefs as was previously thought. A team of Australian scientists say that the damage done by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the
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Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show.
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By Beth J. Harpaz Associated Press  NEW YORK -- Visiting an eco-lodge in a rainforest somewhere may sound appealing. But when you consider that carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes are a major contributor to global warming, you might do more for the environment by staying home.
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LONDON, Oct 12 (IPS) - New fears have arisen over global warming after   some measurements pointed to an unusual rise in carbon dioxide  levels  over the past two years.
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Three online sites - Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz - offer convenient ways to voluntarily pay to offset C0 emissions caused by a trip. Just click to have the price of the offset added to your bill.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.