Thursday, October 17, 2013

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Dunlop, who will fly to London for the meeting, told Guardian Australia that shareholders were “curious” about his bid..."You simply can’t do business in a world with 4C of warming.  Shareholder value will go down the tubes"

By that estimate, 17 to 25 parks will be overloaded with nitrogen by 2050.  Even if fuel-based emissions were completely eliminated, 14 national parks will exceed the critical nitrogen levels at that time. 

Although the use of international offset credits in Europe’s climate legislation was originally intended to make mitigation action cheaper, the European Commission has concluded in its report “The state of the European carbon market in 2012” that offset credits have actually undermined domestic mitigation action.