#carbon

Big News From Mars ? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now

It wasn’t scientific caution that kept Zare from announcing his results. It was a rule many scientific journals enforce that says scientists are not allowed to talk about their research until the day it’s officially published. Zare had to follow the rules if he wanted his paper to come out.

He did break down and tell his family. “I remember at the dinner table with great excitement explaining to my wife, Susan, and my daughter, Bethany, what it was we were doing,” says Zare.

“Bethany looked at me and said, ’pass the ketchup.’”

l’anecdote mise à part, voici l’info sérieuse : on aurait trouvé du carbone sur Mars ; mais est-ce que ce carbone a été emporté par Curiosity, par une météorite terrestre ou est d’origine martienne, c’est trop tôt pour le savoir.

Mars rover finds carbon in its first soil sample analysis
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/12/mars-rover-finds-carbon-in-its-first-soil-sample-analysis.html

#espace #mars #recherche #carbone #vie

Peruvian Amazon could become global centre of ’#carbon piracy’: report | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/30/peruvian-amazon-carbon-piracy

Warnings that illiterate communities are being pressured to sign up to offsetting schemes in the rush to tap into the potentially vast new global carbon market for forest-rich countries

#forêt #offset #CO2

Forest-Dependent Communities Lobby for End of REDD+ - IPS ipsnews.net
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106019

Organisations working with indigenous peoples living in forests say the United Nations programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is just another way for big corporates to reap huge profits.

#agriculture #forêt #carbone #redd

Rising biomass demand could drive land grabs : report | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-biomass-iied-idUSTRE77T3L220110830

ainsi donc les crédits #carbone pourraient contribuer à accroître les prix de base de l’#alimentation

“All eyes are turned to food and biofuels, but tree plantations for biomass energy may soon become an important driver in the global land rush,” said Lorenzo Cotula, a senior researcher at IIED and co-author of the report.

Investing in biomass plantations could become more attractive in the coming years as fossil fuel prices rise and the cost of biomass production falls as new production methods develop, the report said.

Biomass plantations may also be able to generate additional revenue streams, such as by selling carbon credits.

#biomasse

#Offsets Could Make Up 85% of Calif.’s Cap-And-Trade Program - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/08/08greenwire-offsets-could-make-up-85-of-califs-cap-and-tra-29081.html?pagew

en fait on ne va pas vraiment réduire les émissions de #CO2, mais les compenser… c’est moins cher

“Does it really matter if 85 percent of the reductions come from offsets?” Ard said. “The goal is to reduce [greenhouse gases] to a certain level by 2020. The goal isn’t necessarily to get sources to make certain type of reductions. [ARB is] offering more flexibility to these facilities to meet these targets.”
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Removing offsets from cap and trade “would almost double the price of compliance in the program through 2020,” ARB’s Sahota said.

#environnement #climat

http://mahbsustainability.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/n-raj-patel

“This is a picture of the carbon emitted by #China that turns out to be accounted for by consumption in other countries. In other words, what has happened is that countries in #Europe and North America, for instance, have managed to shrink their #carbon #footprint by getting China to do a great deal of emitting. And then they turn to China and refuse to move forward in the negotiations until China does its bit to reduce greenhouse gases.”

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