The FT reports how carbon traders and green groups announce fears that the proposal to include woodland within the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme could pose a threat to the market.
“Under the proposed plan, forests and other land would be credited as stores of carbon, allowing landowners to sell the resulting permits on to factories that [...]

Indian scientists have discovered an efficient way to make biodiesel, removing the need to heat the mixture of ingredients for hours - a process that counters the overall efficiency of the fuel. They have used a fungus that produces an enzyme called lipase which “can link oil to methanol without any extra heating”.
This provides a [...]

A BBC article tells how the Brazilian President ‘Lula’ has announced figures that show that deforestation in the Amazon has slowed by 25% to the lowest rates since 2000. This has been granted due to increased measures against illegal logging and environmental policies. Deforestation is responsible for 75% of Brazil’s CO2 emissions, as new land [...]

A skip firm in Sussex is investing into a £10m plant to convert the rubbish it collects into energy that will power up to 10,000 homes in a green initiative, according to The Argus. The process involves burning 40,000 tonnes of (non-recyclable) waste a year to drive steam turbines. The managing director, Greg Blurton says [...]

The Guardian has reported how meteorologist Stephen McIntyre noticed errors in NASA’s calculations of global warming trends which were used to enforce the idea of climate change in Al Gore’s environmental film An Inconvenient Truth.
It claimed that 1998 was the hottest day in US history when in fact 1934 was two hundredths of a degree [...]