Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Carbon Footprint" produced 44 items.
| 1. Don't forget to count the trees | December 21, 2011 |
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Power plants burning harvested wood can pack a massive carbon footprint. If a tree falls in the forest, do carbon regulators hear it fall and adjust their accounts? The sad... |
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| 2. California disputes Canadian claims on tar-sands emissions | December 8, 2011 |
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US state defends its environmental standards. California's environmental protection agency has written to the European Commission and EU member states rejecting claims from... |
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| 3. Commission targets tar sands | October 4, 2011 |
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Proposal gives a higher emissions rating to oil from tar sands than for other fossil fuels. The European Commission has proposed a higher carbon-emissions value for oil from... | |
| 4. Split over emissions from tar sands | July 14, 2011 |
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The European Commission is divided over the impact of oil from tar sands on the EU's efforts to cut greenhouse gases. The Commission has been asked to set CO2 emissions... | |
| 5. No unilateralism | June 17, 2011 |
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The head of the European Chemical Industry Council sets out the case for the EU to stick to its current emissions-reduction plan. Europe set itself the bold target of... |
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| 6. Seeking the green seal of approval | May 19, 2011 |
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Measuring the environmental impact of products and services is proving increasingly popular. A spoonful of sugar and drop of bioethanol might come from the same plant, but... |
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| 7. Airlines to face cap on carbon emissions | March 7, 2011 |
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From next year, all flights taking off and landing in the EU to be included in the emissions trading scheme. Bringing aviation into the European Union's emissions trading... |
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| 8. Tar sands 'creates more pollution than other fuels' | February 3, 2011 |
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Average emissions from tar sands are 23% higher than oil from other fossil fuels, according to leaked study produced for the European Commission.
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| 9. Tar sands 'creates more pollution than other fuels' | February 3, 2011 |
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Average emissions from tar sands are 23% higher than oil from other fossil fuels, according to leaked study produced for the European Commission. Oil from Canadian tar sands... | |
| 10. Fraud puts the brake on the emissions market | January 6, 2011 |
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Turbulent times for the European emissions trading scheme. The European emissions trading scheme (ETS), the flagship of the EU's efforts to curb climate change, was six... |
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| 11. A first-class way to cut emissions | December 9, 2010 |
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One industry shows how the climate-change split between the developed and developing can be bridged. The UN has already lowered expectations of climate change negotiations... |
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| 12. Stuck on fuel classification | September 30, 2010 |
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The EU's failure to decide on how to classify tar sands could damage its green credentials. The European Union is to miss a deadline set in its own legislation on cleaner... |
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| 13. A very sticky situation | May 27, 2010 |
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Europe uses very little oil from Canada's tar sands, but these deposits are provoking sharp debate in the EU. Beneath the ancient forests of the Canadian province of Alberta... |
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| 14. Let a thousand cities bloom | March 18, 2010 |
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European cities must become low-carbon if the EU is to meet its emissions-reduction targets. European cites have been the cradle of democracy (Athens), finance (Genoa)... |
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| 15. A carbon riddle that is in need of political answers | February 18, 2010 |
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The EU needs to assert member states' right to set tough standards on power plants. The EU's well broadcast ambition is to decarbonise its energy sector. But at the same... | |
| 16. Latin America's green path forward | December 15, 2009 |
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The World Bank gives its view of Latin America's efforts to curb climate change and of what it needs. What happens at the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen is of... | |
| 17. Businesses must take the lead on sustainable development | December 10, 2009 |
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The food services industry has an appalling record on sustainability; there is much it could do. Michael Izza of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales... | |
| 18. Software, the green revolution's great enabler | May 20, 2009 |
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Microsoft calls for a ‘green revolution', arguing that sustainable business practices are vital for Europe's economy as well as its environment. These are “serious and... | |
| 19. Will the recession make the Earth a greener planet? | March 5, 2009 |
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Carbon prices sharply down since last summer; analysts predict further market contraction. Could the economic slump be good for the planet? As production lines fall silent,... | |
| 20. Environment department will not be carbon-neutral | February 26, 2009 |
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Director says idea of buying carbon credits is not "overwhelmingly logical". The European Commission's environment department has no plans to go carbon- neutral, its new... | |
