ECONOMICS REPORT - Carbon Trading By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 14, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Carbon trading has its roots in the Kyoto Protocol.

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day [April 22], this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods, and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels. Author, edu

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Lake Sediment Could Better Date Ancient Finds Radiocarbon dating is the best-known and most widely used method to determine the age of organic material, such as bone or wood or plant matter. All such material contains radioactive carbon atoms, known

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Volunteers Help Scientists in Search for Cheap Solar Cells Most of today's solar cells are silicone-based and their manufacture requires sophisticated machinery and expertise. An average home in the United States uses between 20 and 24 kilowatt hours

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Christy VanArragon. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A beautiful orange and white clow

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Clive Palmer is defending his climate change deal with the government. The Palmer United Party has agreed to back the Coalition's direct action plan in exchange for several concessions. As part of the deal there'll be an eight-month investigation int

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15 million years ago, New Zealand was a different place. The country was blanketed by dense rainforests and partially submerged under the ocean. Analysis of sedimentary(沉淀性的) rocks has shown that sea temperatures in this part of the world ros

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The Underhill Farm in Somerset, England, is the picture of rural tranquility. But the lush green pastures disguise the fact that farms like this are contributing to global warming. That's because just one cow can produce up to 500 liters of methane g

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The forestry industry in New Zealand is in trouble. Forestry has always been one of our major export industries but in recent years, it has been declining. Nineteen sawmills closed this year, two in the last month. New plantings of trees reached the

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Prices for petrol, electricity, and gas for cooking went up today to pay for the greenhouse gas they put into the atmosphere. Petrol went up 3 cents a litre to $1.79 a litre for unleaded petrol. Electricity and gas prices went up 3.3%. This is becaus

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 20 February 2008 Scientists say they have taken an array of new marine species from the seabed off eastern Antarctica. They are warning, though, that climate change could soon make extinct many of the strange creatures they have

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Some New Zealand MPs who returned from the Copenhagen conference are disappointed. The Green Party MP, Jeanette Fitzsimons, said the conference was a failure because there were no legal promises. The conference decided to limit temperature increases

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Rebekah Schipper. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voi

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A prominent Liberal senator has taken a swipe at Malcolm Turnbull over his outburst to Conservative columnist Andrew Bolt. The Communications Minister has described Mr. Bolt's claims that he wants the ladyship back as demented. Senator Cory Bernardi

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Hi everybody. 嗨,大家好。 A few days ago, I unveiled a new national plan to confront the growing threat of a changing climate. 就在前几天,我推出了一项新的国家计划以应对日益增长的气候变化威胁。 Decades of caref

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By Paul Sisco Washington 18 October 2007 In today's Searching for Solutions report, Paul Sisco reports on what some scientists say can be done to reduce carbon emissions and cool off global warming. Many scientists believe that the problem of climate

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Today, the Minister for Climate Change, Nick Smith, introduced an ETS Emissions Trading Scheme bill into Parliament. This will change the ETS that the Labour government passed. Dr Smith said that it was important not to be too tough on industry becau

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The web-savvy amongst you will know that just as a mouse is no longer only a rodent, a tweet isn't necessarily a noise made by a bird. Nearly a quarter of the new words added to the latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary come from internet culture

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At Friday's meeting of the National Leading Group on Climate Change, Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction, Premier Li says China will achieve its energy saving and emissions control targets set in the 12th Five-Year Plan as scheduled. He said

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China predicts that its carbon emissions will peak by 2030 or earlier in a set of national emissions pledges submitted to the United Nations in June. China has promised to cut the nation's energy consumption per unit of economic output by 60 to 65 pe

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