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Greenhouse Gas

Type: Keyphrase
Name: Greenhouse Gas
description: group of gases which individually act to trap solar energy near the earth. GHGs for which emission levels have been estimated are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), carbon tetrafluoride (CF4), carbon hexafluoride (C2F6) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)
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US Environmental Protection Agency
US and China ink emission reporting co-operation deal
Source: BusinessGreenThe flurry of bilateral environment agreements signed this week between the US and China delivered a significant new deal yesterday designed to improve China's ability to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions.According to reports, ... [Environmental Expert - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
India urges West to give up beef to slow down global warming
India has urged Western countries to stop eating beef in order to cut greenhouse emissions.According to a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 18 per cent of the Earth’’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to livestock.Environment ... [FreshNews.in - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Global warming: California pushes ahead
While Congress dithers over federal climate change legislation, and nations squabble over a global treaty, the nation's most populous state is doggedly pushing ahead with its own regulations to control the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up ... [Los Angeles Times - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 6 Documents (in Environment)
India reduces expectation from Copenhagen climate summit (Lead)
Do not expect anything much from next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday, reiterating that India is not going to accept any legally binding cuts on its greenhouse gas emissions. 'Don't expect anything ... [NetIndia123.com - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Bob Ward: This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists ... [Guardian.co.uk - 10 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
International Energy Agency - Click to view 360-page
International Energy Agency
Energy industry needs deal
An international deal on climate change would overcome financial uncertainty in the energy industry as well as stop the current trend towards potentially catastrophic global warming, energy agency officials said on Thursday.The World Energy Council revealed ... [iafrica.com - 20 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
NZ to call global meeting on agriculture emissions
A New Zealand initiative to get international co-operation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is set to take off.Agriculture Minister, David Carter says New Zealand will be convening an international meeting on the Global Alliance next ... [Radio New Zealand - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Pembina Reacts to Bloc Québécois Motion on Copenhagen
Media Contact: PJ PartingtonP.J. Partington, Climate Change Policy Analyst at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Bloc Québécois' Copenhagen motion, which is being debated today in the House of Commons:'The Bloc's motion ... [Pembina Institute - 6 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Russia steps up pledge
By Simon Johnson and Oleg ShchedrovSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.European Commission President Jose ... [Reuters - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Opinions clash over EPA GHG tailoring rule
(Argus) Industry leaders and environmental groups butted heads at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) first public hearing today on its proposed rule that would require major sources of greenhouse gas emissions to install best available control ... [Argus Media - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
GreenBeat: Accenture’s Sharon Allan says U.S. needs to play catch-up in cleantech
Sharon Allan, leader of Accenture’s North America Smart Grid practice, took the stage at GreenBeat2009 to present results to the firm’s survey on attitudes toward and responses to climate change and initiatives to battle global warming. Unsurprisingly, ... [Industry Standard - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Americans needed for carbon scheme
By Michael SzaboLONDON (Reuters) - An injection of U.S. talent into the $6.5 billion market in carbon offsets would help clear bureaucratic bottlenecks, making way for increased investment in clean energy, the CEO of a $310 million environmental fund ... [Reuters - 14 hours ago]

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...But, he argued, wealthy countries should pay Ecuador-where half the population lives in poverty-not to release that carbon into the atmosphere, as "compensation for the damages caused by the out-of-proportion amount of historical and current emissions of greenhouse gases." He didn't ask for the entire amount; just half...
Climate Rage by Naomi Klein (17 Nov 09) [Third World Network - 1 hour ago]
...And so, like WMD and "Death Panels" now we have the " CRU email scandal ", discussed earlier by Kevin Grandia . Just two weeks from Copenhagen the British Climate Research Unit computers are hacked, their emails downloaded and sent off into Deniaworld. There, just as in the leadlead upup to the Iraq War, words are cherry picked, context removed, common sense abandoned, outrage simulated, war declared, counter views demonised. Vials of imaginary anthrax are displayed, trucks become mobile laboratories, aluminum tubes become nuclear bombs, rockets are ready to launch at New York in ten minutes.And suddenly, it seems, temperatures are no longer rising, the Arctic is no longer melting, glaciers don't retreat, droughts don't happen, record temperatures are no longer set, marine acidity doesn't increase, sea levels don't rise, plants don't flower at different times, birds don't breed at different times, firestorms no longer erupt.It was, apparently, all just a dream.But I'm a wake upup on The Watermelon Blog . " More on Climate Change
David Horton: Dream of money-bags tonight [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago]
...Arguenal said that Central America would press industrialised countries to reach concrete decisions to reduce 'greenhouse gases at Copenhagen. "We hope for a deal that is ethical and moral" she said
Guatemala: Nations to seek billions in 'climate debt' [Brisbane Courier-Mail - 2 hours ago]

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Indonesian Forest Ministry halts APRIL’s forest... [Greenpeace International - 20 mins ago]
India-US partnership essential: PM [Economictimes - 40 mins ago]
Greenpeace rallies in Indonesia [Straits Times - 58 mins ago]
U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta Begins Fueling Fleet W... [Work Truck Online - 59 mins ago]
Climate: G77/China attack downgrading of Copenh... [Third World Network - 1 hour ago]
Deadly: Coal mine blast kills 31 in China [Herald Sun - 1 hour ago]
Climate Rage by Naomi Klein (17 Nov 09) [Third World Network - 1 hour ago]
Organic practitioners celebrate outstanding agr... [Third World Network - 1 hour ago]
High-performance absorbers for solar thermal ap... [OE Magazine - 1 hour ago]
Global warming compensation [Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago]
India urges West to give up beef to slow down g... [FreshNews.in - 1 hour ago]
Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth [Amazonia - 2 hours ago]
Global temperatures will rise 6C by end of cent... [Amazonia - 2 hours ago]
Coal mine explosion in China kills 15 [Sky News Australia - 2 hours ago]
Green Toys Recognized as Eco-Toy Industry Leader [Individual.com - 2 hours ago]
Architects unite in Climate Change bid [World Architecture News - 2 hours ago]
RSPO still intact despite greenhouse gas conten... [thestar.com.my - 2 hours ago]
Letters to the editor [San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours ago]
Guatemala: Nations to seek billions in 'climate... [Brisbane Courier-Mail - 2 hours ago]
California cap-and-trade reporting: how's that ... [Land Line Magazine - 2 hours ago]
Ingersoll Rand Initiates Survey to Capture Supp... [Zibb - 3 hours ago]
Bangalore kids cycle to school [Times of India - 3 hours ago]
Green lifestyle statement: Bangalore kids cycle... [Yahoo! India - 3 hours ago]
Bank unit to review palm oil and other carbon-i... [Bank Information Center - 3 hours ago]
Nations to seek billions in 'climate debt' [Daily Telegraph Australia - 3 hours ago]
Central America demands billions in climate dam... [Space Daily - 4 hours ago]
Copenhagen climate change talks stall as CO2 em... [Yahoo! Canada - 4 hours ago]
Europe forces public sector to green existing b... [Click Green - 4 hours ago]
PSI marks five years as SmartWay affiliate [Trailer / Body Builders - 4 hours ago]
Let's go with cap-and-innovate [Washington Post - 4 hours ago]
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David Horton: Dream of money-bags tonight [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago]
All of us who concerned about the future of the planet have misunderestimated the opposition from those who are not. We thought that the flooding of web ...
Windfall or Burden? Two New Reports Focus on &a... [Switchboard, from NRDC - 8 hours ago]
Both Transform and the Urban Land Institute have recently released reports that look at the Bay Area from a perspective NRDC has been pushing in the public ...
Global Climate Change Hoax: The Greatest Fraud ... [Atlas Shrugs - 9 hours ago]
How hard will the corrupt activist media work to bury this explosive story? Many of us have exposed the hoax of climate change by legitimate, responsible scientists ...
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: No Treaty i... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 14 hours ago]
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger Last weekend in Singapore, President Barack Obama acknowledged that a comprehensive international climate ...
Energy Principles [Energy Outlook - 14 hours ago]
My critique of a proposal for expanded tax credits to promote the electrification of transportation prompted some interesting comments. It also got me thinking again ...
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Audio/Video

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Dirty Rockets [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
US pressure builds for climate pact - 12 Nov 09 [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/12/2009]
Dutch Town Fights Carbon Storage [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/10/2009]
Sustainable Salads [Slate Magazine - 11/10/2009]
Which fruits, vegetables, and other crops have ... [Slate Magazine - 11/10/2009]
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