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Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions fell by nearly 8% last year, the first time a fall has been reported in 20 years.

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PG&E is handing over tens of thousands of dollars to the nonprofit Sempervirens Fund to protect a 425-acre stand of redwoods once slated for logging deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The deal, expected to be completed next month, is part of the utility's efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions, in this case safeguarding trees for carbon absorption, and is helping to drive a new marketplace where people and business are offered an incentive to offset pollution.

"We're finding a new financial model here for doing things to capture greenhouse gases that wouldn't have been done otherwise," said Robert Parkhurst, climate protection and analysis manager for PG&E.

"It's a new paradigm for protecting the environment."

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Russia submitted for registration its first carbon emissions reduction project under a special United Nations procedure, a step that can signal “a substantial increase” of followers, the UN regulator said today.

The joint implementation project, created under a UN Kyoto Protocol mechanism, will be located at the Shaturskaya Thermal Power Plant near Moscow, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement from Bonn today. The so-called JI projects generate tradeable emissions-reductions units that countries can use to meet their obligations to cut greenhouse gases under the UN climate-protection treaty.

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the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed including additional sectors in the greenhouse gas reporting rule that it issued last fall.   That rule covered approximately 10,000 individual facilities in 31 source categories.  Together these account for about 85% of all greenhouse gases generated in the U.S. but left out some important sources.  The new proposal targets methane and fluorinated gases, two potent greenhouse gases.  It covers several industry categories including petroleum and natural gas systems, processes involving fluorinated gases, and facilities that inject or store carbon dioxide underground.


The goal of all this the record-keeping is to get a more precise accounting of where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from, which in turn will help lead to more effective programs for reducing them.

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Using coal for electricity produces CO2, and climate policy aims to prevent greenhouse gases from hurting our habitat. But it also produces SOx and NOx and particulate matter that have immediate health dangers.

A University of Wisconsin study was able to put an economic value on just the immediate health benefits of enacting climate policy. Implications of incorporating air-quality co-benefits into climate change policymaking found coal is really costing us about $40 per each ton of CO2.

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Last December world leaders met in Copenhagen to add more hot air to the climate debate. That is because although the impacts humanity would like to avoid—fire, flood and drought, for starters—are pretty clear, the right strategy to halt global warming is not. Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know what “number”—in terms of temperature or concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—constitutes a danger.

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Panasonic has committed to a 50 per cent reduction (120 million tonnes) in the level of greenhouse gases produced compared with 2006 levels by 2018 by maximising its use of resources.

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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stresses that 10 million jobs could be created by 2020, if developing nations agree to big cuts in greenhouse gases.

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The European Union has clashed with Barack Obama's administration over climate change amid fears negotiations on regulating greenhouse gases could break down, according to reports.

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Japan's next leader has promised a big cut in greenhouse gas emissions, saying he will aim for a 25% reduction by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.

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Scottish lawmakers Wednesday backed a binding goal to cut greenhouse gases by 42 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels, edging Germany into second place in a ranking of the most ambitious developed world targets.

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World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector

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The fight against global climate change may turn out to be a very good fight for the U.S. farmer.

Credits earned for agro practices that sequester GhGs in the soil instead of releasing them into the atmosphere have sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE) for $2.50 to $7 a metric ton over the last 3 years and earn ~$4 a metric ton now. 990 North Dakota farmers and ranchers participating through the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program earned $2.6 million in July 2008.

Credits are earned primarily from no-till farming, a method of planting in which – instead of plowing the soil and releasing GhGs that have fallen or rotted into it – a machine injects seeds and fertilizer into standing stubble from the previous crop

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Below is very cool image that shows the breakdown of the activities that lead to global warming. The image comes from a report from the World Resources Institute

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