Arkansas global warming action plan.
| Climate for Community The Climate for Community (C4C) program will demonstrate a model for aggregating, verifying and commoditizing emission reductions generated by actions in households and small businesses.By turning grassroots greenhouse gas-reducing efforts into tradable carbon credits, C4C will democratize a marketplace that is currently available to only big business financiers and polluters, and will engage us all directly in the fight to stop global warming.Program Overview Brochure [PDF] Small business profiles:
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| Bush Lifts Ban on Off-Shore Drilling In a move destined to have no effect whatsoever on gasoline prices in the near term, and possibly ever, President Bush lifted the ban on offshore drilling. This follows a tradition of disregard for the facts, the science and the truth that has long characterized the administration’s actions. |
| Good planets are hard to find. Nature can be amazingly resilient, capable of adapting to constantly changing ecological conditions. And yet, this resiliency is limited and rapidly reaching the breaking point. |
| EU carbon trading system brings windfalls for some, with little benefit to climate BRUSSELS: The European Union started with the most high-minded of ecological goals: to create a market that would encourage companies to reduce greenhouse gases by making them pay for each ton emitted into the atmosphere.Four years later, the carbon trading system has created a multibillion-euro windfall for some of the continent’s biggest polluters, with little or no noticeable benefit to the environment so far. |
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