Rhett A. Butler | mongabay.com | February 08, 2010 Business-as-usual agricultural expansion to meet biofuel production targets for 2020 will take a heavy toll on Brazil's Amazon rainforest in coming years, undermining the potential emissions savings of transitioning from fossil fuels to biofuels, warns a new paper published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research suggests that intensification of cattle ranching, combined with efforts to promote high-yielding... [Read Post]
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AFP in Yahoo! News | Feb 8, 2010 HELSINKI (AFP) – Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought. ...
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With the science under siege and the politics in disarray, it may fall to civil society to keep this still crucial fight alive Ian Katz guardian.co.uk 8 February 2010 What a difference three months makes. Back in November, the world broadly agreed that emissions of carbon dioxide were heatin...
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By Benard Namanya | The New Vision | 8th February, 2010 THE Copenhagen accord on climate change was neither adopted nor endorsed by the 15th conference of parties in Copenhagen, Denmark. This means the accord does not have any legal standing within the UN system. Notwithstanding, the accord’s...
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By Nancy K. Kopp | The Hill | 02/08/10 Legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn ushered in the 1933 Truth in Securities Act in the grim depths of the Great Depression. It was based on the principle that the purchase and sale of securities should be an honest bargain, and disclosure its cornerstone. B...
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Environnment News Service | February 8, 2010 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has received national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries, including China and the United States that together account for 78 percent of global emissions from energ...
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