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Save forests, wetlands to fight climate change: study |
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 BERLIN (Reuters) - Governments can help combat climate change by investing more in natural areas, including forests and mangroves, a European study said on Wednesday.
The paper pointed out that nations have natural assets worth trillions of dollars which could help fight global warming and save investment in industrial schemes for carbon capture. |
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Indonesia Proposes Ambitious Emissions Target |
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 Indonesia says its carbon emissions could be slashed more than 40 percent over the next 20 years by reducing deforestation, peat-land degradation and power use. Achieving this target will depend much upon whether countries can agree on a framework for carbon trading this year.
Many fortunes have been made from the destruction of Indonesia's forests.
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Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Ignore Carbon Cycling Processes Of Inland Waters |
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 Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Ignore Carbon Cycling Processes Of Inland Waters, Scientists Say
ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2009) — In a paper titled "The Boundless Carbon Cycle," published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud™ Water Research Center argue that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate change have overlooked a critical player - inland waters. Streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle that is unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models.
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EU presses US on climate change |
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 BRUSSELS — The European Union urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to ensure the United States makes deep cuts in carbon emissions as part of negotiations to reach a new global climate change accord.
Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said the 27-nation bloc, as well as the United States and other developed countries, "should deliver" on promises to cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050, from 1990 levels. |
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PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to press ahead with a controversial plan to tax carbon emissions by individuals and businesses, ignoring opposition from voters of all political stripes in his bid to claim a leading role in global efforts to stem climate change.
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