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If avoided deforestation takes off, the benefits will go well beyond reducing CO2 emissions. Tropical forests are rich in biodiversity, but there's been no way to make money from keeping them pristine--until now. Giving tropical countries carbon credits for the greenhouse gases saved when trees are preserved puts...
The summit will host prominent scientists, business executives and government officials from around the world and focus on topics like emissions, forest conservation and alternative fuels. (Crist is also mandating that state-owned vehicles use biofuels like corn ethanol when possible.) But Crist, who made a point of inviting Kennedy...
Even more pertinent was the criticism that the giant carbon footprint of an event that involved jetting pop stars and their entourages around the globe, and encouraging hundreds of thousands of fans to travel to concert sites, was inherently at odds with Live Earth's energy-conservation message. Around half...
If Gore was being characteristically hyperbolic when he claimed the concerts could reach up to 2 billion people on the Internet - sure, and so could this story - the sheer size and spread of the events meant that for a day at least, climate change (or, the rock concerts it has...
I love nature. I love animals. I would be very happy in the middle of absolutely nowhere. I'm on the board of the Wildlife Conservation Society, so that's one of my passions. I've never gotten up on a soapbox about it, but I'm pretty passionately against...