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BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Mark Scott	Banks: Gearing Up for Carbon Trading While the federal plan to trade carbon emission credits are a ways off, banks already are preparing for what they see as a new profit.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz	Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.
TIME Asia June 20, 2011 Brendan Brady	Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin	A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.
Wired August 21, 2007 David Wolman	Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging for Her Services David Brand, founder and director of a forestry investment business, is buying forests now to make money in the future from their existence.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Geotimes September 2003 Greg Peterson	Weathering climate change Policy-makers looking to curb future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, could turn to a simple plan: Plant trees.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Trading on Climate Change Markets for emissions credits are starting to take root. As more of the Kyoto Protocol's provisions take effect, trading in these markets will likely accelerate, and emerging-market projects designed to take advantage of that trading will continue to provide opportunities for global investors.
Wired May 19, 2008	Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green It's high time for green causes to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Ben Elgin	Chevy's Carbon Plan: Less Than Meets the Eye The carmaker will buy carbon offsets if you buy a Chevy. But the carbon reductions may likely be less than promised.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	Turn Smog Into Money This new exchange-traded investment lets you profit from carbon credits.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Susan Arterian Chang	Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems.
Fast Company July 2008 Robert Safian	Editor's Letter: Market Manipulation Saving the planet through the carbon-credit market.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
BusinessWeek December 9, 2009 Elgin & Einhorn	China: Climate Change or Hot Air? The mainland earns billions in carbon-offset sales. But by taking credit for projects that would have been built anyway, it may not be playing by the rules.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Laura Cohn	What Price Pollution? In Europe, the Kyoto Protocol is spurring a brisk market in emission credits. Under the program, banks and exchanges are preparing to service some 12,000 industrial installations across the EU.
Chemistry World September 16, 2013 Ned Stafford	Battle over carbon tax looms As newly elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott prepares to be sworn into office this week, opponents of his plan to abolish the so-called carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions are preparing for political battle.
Wired May 19, 2008 Matt Power	Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth.
Health March 15, 2009 Andrea Robinson	Inexpensive Natural Wines That We Love It's more affordable than you might think to drink natural, eco-friendly wines.
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff	Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth.
CFO January 1, 2008 John Goff	Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air?
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Biofuel Carbon Debt May Take Centuries to Repay Most biofuels may increase greenhouse gas emissions because clearing grassland or forest to plant them releases carbon dioxide.
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Kate Murphy	A Box Of Wine, A Loaf Of Bread... Better wines are getting bagged, boxed, and canned. Can vintners win over consumers?
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner	Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis.
Chemistry World November 13, 2013 Andy Extance	Europe's manufacturing edge not leaking away There is no evidence that Europe's emissions trading scheme has driven production of goods reliant on fossil fuels, like chemicals, elsewhere.
Food Processing October 2007 Dave Fusaro	Editor's Plate: Too green for my taste Choosing food based on a greenhouse gas score is a bad idea.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Paul McFedries	Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles.
Chemistry World February 2008 Andrew Hagan	The Future of the Chemical Industry The year ahead may offer financial uncertainty, but it also has abundant opportunities.
Food Processing August 2010 Beau Griffey	Power Lunch: How the American Power Act May Affect You A cap-and-trade marketplace creates burdens, solutions and opportunities.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore	CO 2 vs. H 2O in Power Production Plotting trade-offs from wind to coal
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Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Andrew Turley	Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans Government plans to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions risk crippling the chemical sector and thereby harming chances of moving to a low emissions future
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IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Thomas Duesterberg	The Competitive Edge -- Cap-and-Trade Would Be a Major Mistake U.S. manufacturers face significant cost disadvantages if current proposals are enacted.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.
Smithsonian July 2007 Beth Goulart	Sip 'n' Swirl, Y'all In the heart of the Lone Star state, wineries are giving Texans reason to toast.
Popular Mechanics January 26, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate.
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss	Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory Carbon offsets -- and emissions-trading schemes, their industrial-scale siblings -- are the environmental version of subprime mortgages.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Wired May 19, 2008 Alex Steffen	Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 David Fairlamb	The Smog Trade Will pollution "credits" help clean up the world?
Scientific American June 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee	Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air? A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Alexandra Wolfe	Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees.
PC Magazine March 17, 2008 Isabelle Groc	Giving Back to the Friendly Skies Carbon offsets can be a good way to reduce your traveling carbon footprint, but be wary of green scams.