Daily Archives: June 4, 2007

The State and Trends of the Carbon Market

The World Bank has recently published the seventh carbon market intelligence study. The State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2007 reveals that the global carbon market tripled in 2006—to US$30 billion from US$10 billion in 2005.

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Quick guide: Carbon footprints

The BBC has just published a short online guide to Carbon Footprints, which answers the following questions:

What is CO2’s role in climate change?
What does the term carbon footprint mean and can it be measured?
What are some of the ways to reduce our carbon footprint?
What do the terms carbon neutral and zero carbon mean?
How do we [...]

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Rekindle Blitz spirit to combat climate change says historian

Wartime rationing policies should be revived in order to stave off catastrophic climate change, a new History and Policy paper published today will argue.
Historian Dr Mark Roodhouse, of the University of York, calls for individual carbon rationing modelled on the experience of the two World Wars, and warns that ‘green taxes’ will not achieve the [...]

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