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RT @guardianeco: ...UK's big polluter, #Drax, 'could become giant vaccum cleaner for #carbon' http://t.co/f9iBiphK /#ccs

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Increase of CO2 since pre-industrial times 1800 - Oct 2011 http://t.co/T010lq3D #ppm #carbon #globalwarming #climate #change #green #eco
– Josef Biesenberger (jbiesenberger) http://twitter.com/jbiesenberger/status/125488698904150016

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Just had a great convo with ManageCO2 - Irish startup CO2 management co. - interesting co. http://bit.ly/jfrWmV
#Carbon Accounting Software #Webinar on the 03-Aug-2011. Register at http://bit.ly/sVLXS /Sorry I'm going to miss this

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The Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed http://bit.ly/qSCGqe
The #Carbon Disclosure Project’s #emissions reduction claims for #cloud computing are flawed http://bit.ly/qSCGqe
@swardley Dunno if you saw the Carbon Disclosure Project's claims yest that Cloud = Green. I debunk them here http://bit.ly/qSCGqe
@KevinIMoss Sorry, that CDP report is deeply flawed see http://bit.ly/qSCGqe

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A new liability is coming onto the collective balance sheet of companies around the world: Carbon.In the context of increasing awareness of the business and societal risks of climate change, corporate carbon emissions (and the energy consumption that creates them) are becoming a crucial indicator of business performance. And a new type of software platform, enterprise carbon and energy management (ECEM), is emerging to enable companies to monitor, manage, and report corporate carbon emissions, as well as the energy consumption which is their principal source.

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While politicians and oil execs perpetuate reckless endeavors to exploit the world’s scant and hard-to-access oil reserves, another powerful industry group is building the tools to end this addiction once and for all. Information Technology solutions can make the U.S. and the world more efficient, less carbon intensive, and less reliant on fossil fuels. With bigger investments, strong political advocacy, and a serious jumpstart to the development of technological solutions, IT companies can help us end our oil addiction.

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Europe's current focus on recovery from recession must not distract us from the question of what kind of economy we want to build. Unless we set our countries on a path to a sustainable low-carbon future, we will face continued uncertainty and significant costs from energy price volatility and a destabilising climate.\nThis is why we today set out our belief that the European Union should raise its emissions target. A reduction of 30 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020 would represent a real incentive for innovation and action in the international context. It would be a genuine attempt to restrict the rise in global temperatures to 2°C - the key climate danger threshold - stiffening the resolve of those already proposing ambitious action and encouraging those waiting in the wings. It would also make good business sense.

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The price of carbon in the EU emissions trading scheme hit a record high for the year yesterday, breaking through the €14 (£12.36) a tonne mark for the first time since the week before December's Copenhagen summit.

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Archimedes said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth," when explaining the principle of levers.

Leverage is the big news about Walmart's announcement today. The company has committed to reducing 20 million metric tons of carbon pollution from its products' lifecycle and supply chain over the next five years. That's equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from 3.8 million cars.

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A new line of paint from Dulux, using technology and practices developed over a three-year research period, has significantly lower impacts than Dulux's previous paints.

Dulux's Ecosense line of paint comes out in March this year. The Ecosense Matt has 50 percent less embodied carbon, 50 percent less embodied water, 40 percent less waste and almost zero volatile organic compounds when compared to the Dulux Standard Matt from 2008. Its packaging will contain 20 percent recycled content.

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"The anti-flying group Plane Stupid made this video of polar bears falling from the sky to graphically demonstrate how much carbon is dumped into the atmosphere when you fly. "

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"UN plan to preserve the world's forests by allowing owners to trade the carbon stored in endangered forests on condition the trees are not felled. The plan aims to slash the 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions that come from deforestation and is one of the few aspects of a global deal to fight climate change that looks on track to be settled"

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Each unit of UK electricity is currently causing this much CO2:

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Check out the carbon footprint of any country - v interesting tool.

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Why is it that even when we talk about the impacts of climate change we keep focusing on the 91 years from now until 2100? Is it simply the tyranny of round numbers? Is it our seemingly infinite myopia? Or have we just decided that we don't give a flying fig what happens after 2100, because our own kids will almost certainly be dead by then?\n\nLuckily, not everyone is taking that position, and some are reminding us that Carbon is forever:

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The World Watch has released a report (PDF) looking at a roadmap towards a lower carbon economy based on a wide range of new energy systems.

"We are on the verge of an energy revolution," says Flavin. "With strong political leadership, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to use policy and technology innovation to stave off the greatest human-caused threat our planet has seen."

World Watch believes that 'these new energy sources will make it possible to retire hundreds of coal-fired power plants that now provide 40 percent of the world's power by 2030, eliminating up to one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions while creating millions of new jobs.'

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For the foreseeable future, the global financial-services sector will be wrestling with the grim realities of credit losses, deleveraging, and challenges to traditional business models. With dramatic industry restructuring already underway and a clear need for players to concentrate on the here and now, it would be easy to lose sight of a nascent but significant long-term opportunity: facilitating carbon trading.

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A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other sources.

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A site which rates cars by their CO2 emissions

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