An assessment of the volume of water running into the oceans from melting ice caps suggests that sea levels could rise by two to three times the amount previously expected from this source.
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2785477.ece
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Trucost, the international environmental research organisation, has released its annual ranking of UK investment funds based on their carbon emissions: Carbon Counts 2007: The Carbon Footprint Ranking of UK Investment Funds.
http://www.trucost.com/pressreleases/CarbonCounts2007.html
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Small businesses in the U.K. with big ideas on how to reduce carbon emissions from the workplace have been invited to join Shell’s third Springboard competition.
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=35474&CFID=4249034&CFTOKEN=90496341
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German public bank KFW today announced it has signed a deal to purchase 600,000 certified emissions reductions (CERs) from a natural-gas fired power plant in India.
http://www.pointcarbon.com/Home/News/All%20news/CDM%20&%20JI/article23579-470.html
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A very good analysis of the recent market research report by New Carbon Finance.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/17/164826/920
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Many IT companies use carbon offsetting and claim it reduces their carbon emissions: 3PAR, Dell and Google for example. A Channel 4 Dispatches TV programme showed up Carbon Offsets to be fantasies and scams.
http://www.techworld.com/green-it/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=17&entryid=553
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It’s easy to become carbon neutral when you are the smallest country in the world…
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/07/19/the-first-country-to-fully-offset-co2-emissions/
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Another Australian company becoming carbon neutral, offsetting 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Sydney-Water-to-become-carbon-neutral/2007/07/19/1184559926917.html
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Carbon trading was high on the agenda at a recent meeting in New York. Leonora resident Kado Muir travelled to the United Nations to discuss carbon trading initiatives to involve and benefit Indigenous people.
http://www.abc.net.au/goldfields/stories/s1982626.htm?backyard
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Abondance, France becomes the first Alpine ski resort to shut down due to climate change.
Muddy slopes, slushy peaks and unused lifts have put an end to the French ski resort of Abondance.
(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/19/travel/0720francewarm.php
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