carbon emissions

Emission trade-off

Submitted by Adam Ma'anit on March 10, 2008 - 5:36pm.

Not long after environmental groups lambasted the UK Government's cop-out on carbon offsets, the policy directors of some of the country’s leading development and aid agencies have now written a letter to The Times weighing-in on the debate. If you were persuaded by some of the development claims of the offset industry, then square that with the likes of Oxfam, the World Development Movement, Christian Aid, Tearfund, Practical Action and the New Economics Foundation who said today: Read more »

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• carbon emissions
• carbon trading
• climate change
• development
• offsets
• UK

Spiders and the World Cup

Submitted by David Ransom on August 9, 2006 - 8:10am.

Rain. My first dose of large quantities of it, through most of the night and now most of the day. The surface of the water around me fizzes like soda. The water above me rattles against the steel of the barge. My world has become restricted, damper, more like what it will be in winter, I imagine. But still, my initiation had thus far been bathed in warm sunlight. And the level of the river has dipped as low as it can without starting to dry up. Rain, in roughly the right amount, is my friend.

Last evening Jeb - Pete and Flor’s son - came to watch World Cup football on my TV. Courtesy of Mr Spaniel, the TV man, I get a better picture than most. Portugal versus the Netherlands. Jeb is a fan of the Netherlands. He appeared in an orange baseball cap, an orange wreath around his neck and orange slippers in the shape of clogs on his feet. Read more »

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• barge
• carbon emissions
• internal combustion engines
• rain
• World Cup