The solar-powered boat docked in Battery Park City in New York could easily have been packed off to a museum as a relic.
The MS Türanor SolarPlanet saw its glory days last year, when the catamaran went around the world powered only by the sun and energystored in the huge battery packs in each pontoon.
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L’aggiornamento del rapporto di novembre 2012 della World Bank “Turn Down the Heat” uscito oggi, mostra uno scenario allarmante che potrebbe provocare un disastro sulle economie internazionali. Il Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, autore del rapporto, sostiene infatti che che le proiezioni di sette mesi fa sulle emissioni dei gas ad effetto serra risultano essere inferiori alla realtà.
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China’s economic growth has come on the back of unparalleled coal use, unbreathable air and the unenviable title of being the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter.
So as it prepares to launch its first pilot carbon market on Tuesday, there is intense speculation about the scheme’s likely impact, both domestically and whether it boosts China’s support for a binding global treaty to lower carbon emissions.
The pilot is in the economically thrusting city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, one of seven testing grounds Beijing picked in 2011 to try out emissions trading before deciding whether to launch a national system from 2015.
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The Skeptical Science survey finding 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming has drawn an incredible amount of media attention. Hundreds of media stories documented our survey and results. Lead author John Cook and I participated in a number of interviews to discuss the paper, including on Al Jazeera, CNN, and ABC. President Obama even Tweeted about our results to his 31 million followers.
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Il rapporto 2012 non calcola il valore o la dimensione del mercato globale come ha fatto negli anni precedenti.
Invece, rappresenta un “one-stop shop” per i dettagli e l’analisi di tutti i sistemi, attuali e nuovi, di emission trading e dellle carbon tax in tutto il mondo.
La relazione del 2012 descrive un mercato del carbonio che è cresciuto in valore totale del 11% nel 2011, a 176 miliardi dollari, e in cui il volume delle transazioni ha raggiunto un nuovo record di 10,3 miliardi di tonnellate di anidride carbonica equivalente (CO2e).
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