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It may have become fashionable to target four-wheel drives as gas guzzlers and heavy emitters, but they are probably less damaging to the environment than the cows and sheep that are essential to the rural economy. Methane emissions from both ends of cattle and sheep are causing great concern, according to Times Online in July 2007. The UK government has asked researchers to find ways to cut down on methane (a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful at driving global warming than carbon… Continue
Added by Change2 on September 27, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments
An international agreement made in 1997 (in the Japanese city of Kyoto), the Kyoto Protocol, sets emission reduction targets for developed countries and establishes mechanism to reduce the emissions of developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol is an addendum to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It took one year for the member countries of the UNFCCC to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse gas… Continue
Added by Change2 on September 13, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments
The JPMorgan Environmental Index - JENI (or JENI Carbon Beta in full) - is the first high-grade corporate bond index designed to address the risks of climate change in a rigorous way. A collaboration between JPMorgan and Innovest Strategic Investment Advisors, a world leader in providing environmental analysis to institutional investors, JENI-Carbon Beta is designed to enable credit investors to make return- driven investment decisions that systematically take the risks and… Continue
Added by Change2 on September 6, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments
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