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Indonesian forests to be traded on carbon market
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
The government of the Indonesian province, Papua, has signed a deal with a Sydney-based firm to establish a forestry-based carbon finance project.
In Court
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
pollution liability: Several oil majors in the US have agreed to pay up US $423 million in what is billed as the largest settlement over drinking-water contamination involving 153 public water utilities in the country.
Aftermath of China's earthquake
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Highest in 650,000 years
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is at its highest since the past 650,000 years, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Between 1979 and 2007, the level of CO2, the primary driver of climate change, increased at an average rate of 1.65 parts per million. The growth rate of methane, however, declined since 1992 due to change in emissions. Over the past 29 years, nitrous oxide emissions continue to increase steadily, while the chloro fluoro carbons (CFCs) have reached a plateau since 1992.
In short
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
>> A national debate on the energy reform project started in the Mexican Senate on May 13. The debate, which will run for 71 days, will not only involve legislators and political leaders, but also experts from universities, NGOs and technicians from industries.
>> Following the federal court's direction, the US government has listed the polar bear as "threatened species" under the Endangered Species Act. The polar bear becomes the first species protected due to climate change.
EU fishers up against dearer fuel
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
The spiralling fuel prices in the international market have hit European fishing fleets. Angered fishers are blockading ports in several countries.
Zimbabwe pits currency against food price
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
In the face of an economic meltdown, Zimbabwe has suspended import duty on basic commodities for 90 days, with effect from May 12.
First dino tracks found in Arabian Peninsula
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
For the first time, scientists have discovered dinosaur footprints made some 150 million years ago on the bedrock of the Arabian Peninsula.
Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigns
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, quit her post on April 13 in despair over the obstacles she faced in reining in destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In the resignation, Silva said she stepped down because of the difficulty she had been having for some time in carrying out the national environment agenda.
