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New Zealand based company carboNZero Holdings has announced its Certified Emissions Measurement And Reduction Scheme, CEMARS(TM) has been approved by the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting organisation, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The company has become one of only 17 global standards meeting CDP verification criteria ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Climate Change, Emissions, greenhouse gas, Industry & Business
The West Coast Environment Network has filed an appeal with the Environment Court challenging the recent resource consents awarded to Perth based listed company Bathurst Resources. They want to mine up to two million tonnes of high-grade coal from the Denniston Plateau north of Westport. West Coast Environment Network have ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in September 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Chemicals, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, ETS, greenhouse gas, Health, Industry & Business (1 comment)
Here's what they said about climate change in the communique from the Pacific Forum . I know there is a strange and wonderful language used in these documents , but it may be that its harder to understand than a doctors prescription.But this looks like recognition that the very existence ... keep reading
Written by Nicole C in September 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, greenhouse gas, Politics & Government, Water
As China produced in March 2011 a five year plan that is arguably one of the most serious environmental plans on the planet for environmental remediation and with a massive move to clean technologies and to clean up their environment the year started with some real action on climate change ... keep reading
Written by Vicki B in August 2011, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Electric vehicles, Emissions, greenhouse gas (6 comments)
Coal Action Network Aotearoa has condemned the decision to grant resource consent for the 200 hectare mine on the Denniston Plateau, inland from Westport, saying New Zealand doesn't need to mine more coal.Consent has been given for a massive new open cast coal mine on conservation land on ... keep reading
Written by celsias in August 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Finance & Money, greenhouse gas, Health, Industry & Business, mining
The politics of carbon in Australia is fraught it seems. As the Labor Party plummets in the polls Julia Gillard's coalition hangs by a thread, and it seems that escort services on the Union's credit card could yet mean that even this carbon price doesn't get enacted ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August 2011, about Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Finance & Money, greenhouse gas, Law, Politics & Government
The cost of a unit of solar energy appears to be following Moore’s Law with solar costs dropping exponentially from $22 a watt in 1980 to $1.40 a watt today. But this positive price development for the consumer could prove to be a temporary set back for the ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in August 2011, about Clean Tech, Climate Change, Design, Emissions, Finance & Money, Green energy, greenhouse gas, Industry & Business, Innovation, Solar
It’s an arresting title, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans. For author Mark Lynas the Holocene, the 10,000 year post-ice age era during which human civilisation evolved and flourished, has given way in industrial times to the Anthropocene, an age in which ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2011, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Food, greenhouse gas, Organic, Politics & Government, Pollution, Soil (1 comment)
A puzzling decline in the growth rate of atmospheric methane finds conflicting explanations in this week’s Nature. Two independent studies, based on different data sets and analytical approaches, reach differing conclusions, but both point to human activities as the main cause of the slowdown. It's a gas that ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August 2011, about Climate Change, Emissions, Farming, greenhouse gas, Industry & Business, Science, Soil, Sustainability
Just sometimes you get to hear or meet a person who is going to stay with you in spirit for a long time . Rob Swan is such a person and he stole the show at the launch of Pure Advantage in Auckland last night.He is the first person to ... keep reading
Written by Vicki Buck in July 2011, about Advertising, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, greenhouse gas, Polar Sea Ice, Recycling
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