Carbon Management

Mangrove conservation, Co2 fix

Protecting mangroves to lock carbon away in trees may be an economic way to curb climate change, research suggests.   Carbon credit schemes already exist for rainforests; the new work suggests mangroves could be included too. But other researchers say the economics depend on the global carbon price.   Presenting their results in Proceedings of [...]

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By developer
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Eat it!

Reducing food waste could substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions Countries could cut a lot of greenhouse gas emissions if people would just stop wasting so much food, a review article in Nature Climate Change has concluded. The authors focused on nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a result of fertilizer use on crops. More [...]

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By developer
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Hotel Chains Standardize Carbon Accounting

Everybody travels and everybody stays at hotels one time or another but travelling comes with a steep carbon as well as water footprint. For example, every day you stay at a hotel, you might burn enough fossil fuels to release more than 33 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The good news is that [...]

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By Tatiana Antonelli Abella
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Masdar to invest Dh2.57m in Carbon Research Project

US Energy Department will contribute $3m Masdar is investing Dh2.57 million in a high potential carbon capture technology research project in collaboration with RTI International, an independent non-profit research institute, the company said in an emailed statement Tuesday. Masdar said that the research project is “set to revolutionise the carbon capture and storage (CCS) space. [...]

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By Tatiana Antonelli Abella
Thursday, September 1st, 2011

DHL Provides Additional Control on “Green” Shipping Services

DHL Global Forwarding, Freight, one of the leading provider of global air and ocean freight and road freight services, has launched a new service for carbon emissions tracking, the GOGREEN Carbon Dashboard. Customers can choose from a variety of certified reports to better understand the main drivers of carbon emissions from the various transport modes [...]

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By randala
Sunday, July 31st, 2011