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Cash alone will not slow forest carbon emissions
To succeed, the REDD initiative needs a dose of 'GREEN' to restore degraded forests and help boost economic development, argues Andy White.
- Andy White
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China unveils green targets
Premier vows to improve energy efficiency and curb pollution and carbon emissions.
- Jane Qiu
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Bioethanol's dirty footprint in Brazil
- Lindemberg Medeiros de Araujo
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Day of reckoning for Ecuador's biodiversity
The world's indifference to a request for $3.6 billion to preserve a diversity hot spot may push the country to extract oil there, says Kelly Swing.
- Kelly Swing
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Low-cost carbon-capture project sparks interest
Consortium to determine whether price reductions seen in China can be applied abroad.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Mexican climate reports under fire
Researchers row over whether regional projections are based on sound science.
- Cecilia Rosen
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Peer-reviewed 'oil budget' appeases scientists
Government agencies release revised account of fate of oil from Deepwater Horizon spill.
- Mark Schrope
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Books & Arts |
Climate economics: Hot in the city
Robert Buckley cautions that financial incentives alone will not fuel urban adaptation to climate change.
- Robert Buckley
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Correspondence |
Alternative view of Serengeti road
- Katherine Homewood
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Books & Arts |
Climate change: Insurance for a warming planet
Climate policy should be viewed as protection against uncertain future risks, says Martin L. Weitzman.
- Martin L. Weitzman
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Opinion |
Disasters widen the rich–poor gap
New Orleans's recovery five years on from Katrina is a harbinger of how climate change will drive a thicker wedge between the haves and the have-nots, says John Mutter.
- John Mutter
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Battle to degas deadly lakes continues
Funding shortage is biggest hurdle for those striving to disarm three rare but lethal geological hazards.
- Nicola Jones
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Freedom of spill research threatened
Scientists call for impartial funding and open data as BP and government agencies contract researchers.
- Amanda Mascarelli
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Trade-in to trade-up
Nature reserves and protected areas enjoy sacred status in conservation — which translates into a 'do not touch' attitude. But selling off some of the less worthy of them would pay conservation dividends.
- Peter Kareiva
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The business of biodiversity
The value of ecosystems is largely invisible to markets. Ricardo Bayon and Michael Jenkins call on governments to drive regulatory and voluntary economic instruments that put a price on the services that nature provides.
- Ricardo Bayon
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A full accounting
The BP spill should help make the case for bringing ecosystem services into the economy.
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Green development credits to foster global biodiversity
- Alexander N. James
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Hot science from a volcanic crisis
The eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980 left an indelible mark on the field of volcanology. Janet Fang reports.
- Janet Fang
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How is the Global Green New Deal going?
China and South Korea have invested heavily in environmental stimulus projects. Other G20 countries need to deliver on their sustainability promises to save both the planet and the economy, says Edward Barbier.
- Edward Barbier
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Charities warm to climate
Philanthropic support for climate-change issues tripled in 2008.
- Laura Thompson Osuri
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Perspective |
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
- Richard H. Moss
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Systemic risk in banking ecosystems