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Finally, fifth gear, the carbon value: plug-in cars will only be as green as the electricity they're using.
BBC: Promise, but daunting challenges for electric cars
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Energy and climate change minister Lord Marland, opening the debate, said the government's aims were energy security, a low-carbon economy, and value for money for the taxpayer.
BBC: Lord Lawson condemns government's climate change policy
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Ambassador Eduardo Ulibarri, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN, moderating the side event, highlighted raising awareness on the mitigating value of blue carbon, and urged including blue carbon in the climate change negotiations.
UNESCO: Recognizing the importance of coastal Blue Carbon systems to Mitigate Climate Change | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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At the intergovernmental level, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a UN initiative to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions by slowing deforestation and to invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development.
FORBES: The Future of Life On Earth: A Two-Part Discussion
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As long as a proper cap is in place that creates a value for environmental scarcity, carbon trading can be very effective in redirecting investments towards lower-carbon activities and in making human behavior more environmentally sustainable.
CNN: Your ask the expert: Carbon trading, part 2
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We will continue to focus on building long-term shareholder value by leading the commercialization of carbon fibers.
FORBES: Zoltek Rebuffs Offers, But Quinn Isn't Going Away
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Such an approach makes fuel and feedstock production facilities the focus of accounting, he suggests, while treating the CO2 emissions from fuel end-use at face value regardless of the origin of the fuel carbon (bio or fossil).
FORBES: Rethinking Life-Cycle Fuel Regulations
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The software can be used to map out the value of any part of the landscape of a particular country to society from a carbon sequestration point of view, or, say, from a flood control perspective.
FORBES: Stanford Professor Uses Software To Value Nature