Carbon credits can be traded in multi commodity markets?

Even though USA and Australia has not signed the Kyoto protocol, it become blessing in disguise to developing countries like India, China and Brazil, CDM(clean development mechanism) projects are implemented in these countries with latest technologies with the purchase of the carbon credits by developed countries from these projects (annexure I) to offset the emissions.

Many industries in developing countries which are implementing the CDM, looking at the prices of the European union have not realizing the right prices to the CER (carbon emission receipts) due to the currently thriving OTC(over the counter)markets buying the CERs at lower prices than provided by the buyer. Establishment of the European Climate Exchange (ECX) a subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is the place where the sellers get right price for CERs they sell at present.

Commodity exchange is the best places to get fair prices to the CERs. Multi commodity exchange (MCR) which deals with various commodities is right place to market the CER Multi commodity exchange (MCR) can tie up with CCX by launching the carbon financial instrument is the right plat form for efficient price for the CERs

Plant Biodiversity of World

The book “Biodiversity of World” given complete account of the Biodiversity of World. The book contains six chapters, the first chapter deals with different environmental problems faced by world and variety of plant exists in different eco-systems. Second chapter gives details of earlier conservation efforts by different international organization. Chapter three describes Biodiversity convention and Agenda 21. Chapter four deals with after Rio and the follow up of Rio conference. Chapter five deals with Bio Diversity Bill. Chapter six describes different plants of plant kingdom from algae to angiosperms, their habitat, general description and economic importance.

Uniqueness of book is 205photographs taken from the postal stamps of variety plant biodiversity; stamps are collected from different countries of world. The photos include different seasons which affect the life cycle of plant, planet sun, different mushrooms, fern tree, fossil pteridophyte, pines, rare medicinal plants, roses, different rhododendrons, orchids, etc.

The book also deals with “Orchids” and description of different stamps released by different countries on Orchids like, Vanda, Star orchid, Dendrobium etc

The book is meant for environmentalist, foresters, academicians, students and philatelists.

Do you like to travel in car which consumes air instead of petrol to avoid the carbon effluents?

One of the companies that have done extensive research in the area of air engine technology is MDI of France

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One of the companies that have done extensive research in the area of air engine technology is MDI of France. The French company has signed an agreement with Tata Motors. The partnership is expected to work towards developing the air engine for applications in India.

Can a car really runs using just air? Even if such a technology can be developed, will it be economically viable? And what about safety and emissions? Would it be safe to carry compressed air tanks in the car?

The answer to all these questions is yes. Of course, there are a few buts too…

It has been a dream to develop a vehicle that runs on compressed air. It sounds like it will be unbelievably cheap to run, an answer to all of the world’s oil-stained woes, and better still, be a zero-polluting vehicle with the exhaust being just regular air.

HOW DO AIR ENGINES WORK?
Also called CATS (compressed air technology system), these engines feature a specially adapted engine to enable its pistons to be driven simply by the thermal expansion of the compressed air fed into it. There is no combustion of fuel, as in a traditional engine that uses fossil fuels. Instead, the redesigned parts of a two-stroke engine, including pistons, single crankshaft and connecting rods, are all tuned to handle the high pressure of the expanding air.

AIR AND DUAL FUEL
The French company has developed two technologies to meet the different needs, and these include single energy compressed air engines that use only air and the dual energy ones that use compressed air plus fuel. Vehicles with the dual energy engine will work exclusively with compressed air while it is running under 50 km per hour in urban areas. But when the car is used outside urban areas at speeds over 50 km per hour, the engines will switch to the fuel mode.

The engine will be able to use petrol, gas oil, bio-diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, alcohol, etc. Both engines will be available with 2, 4 and 6 cylinders, when the air tanks are empty, the driver will be able to switch to the fuel mode, thanks to the car’s onboard computer.

MDI has also developed vehicles in-house that feature their air engine. These vehicles, including the CityCat and MiniCat, have fiberglass bodies which makes them lightweight and the car’s body is tubular, and is said to be held together using aerospace technology.

The recharging of the car or refilling of air will be done at air stations, once the market is developed. To fill the car’s tanks at the station, which will use a high-pressure delivery system; it will only take about to 2-3 minutes. After refilling, the car will be ready to run 200 km. The MDI car also has a small compressor that can be connected to a domestic electrical network (220V or 380V), which will pump air into and recharge the tanks completely in three-four minutes. Because the engine does not burn any fuel, the car does not need the kind of oils that traditional vehicles use. The MDI engine’s oil is only a litre of vegetable oil that needs to be changed every 50,000km.

Dispute climate change report earn $10,000

Thinktank offers cash to dispute UN climate panel

Do you want to dispute climate change report released.

If you dispute you can earn $10, 000 dollars
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A right-wing American thinktank is offering $10,000 to scientists and economists to dispute a climate change report released on Friday byte he UN’s top scientists panel, The Guardian reported.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which receives funding from oil giant Exxon Mobil according to the daily, sent letters to scientists in the US, Britain and Else where offering the payments in exchange for articles emphasising the shortcoming of the UN’s report.
AEI also reportedly offered additional payments, and to reimburse travel expenses.
The report, released on Friday in Paris by the UN’s Inter government panel for Climate Change (IPCC), a gave bleak assessment of the damage to the future of the environment.
It is the culmination of four days of debate between more then 500 scientists at a closed-door meeting in Paris.
Kenneth Green, the AEI visiting scholar, confirmed to The Guardian that the thinktank had approached scientist and analysis to pen essays that would be compiled into an independent review of the IPCC’s report.
“Once group says that anyone with any doubts what so ever are deniers and the others group is saying that anyone who wants to take action is alarmist. We don’t think that approach ahs a lot of utility for intelligent policy.” Business line February3, 2007 writes

Top multinationals’ carbon pledge

Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised on Thursday to reduce by 10 million tonnes annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced

Business line February3, 2007 writes
Top multinationals’ carbon pledge

Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised on Thursday to reduce by 10 million tonnes annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced.
Sony, Nike, IBM, Polaroid, building –materials gains Lafarge and seven other top multinationals said they would fulfill their carbon pledge by no later than 2010.
“If 1,300 more large companies join into this effort, the Kyoto targets for the industrials world would be researched,” the firms - dubbed “Climate Savers” by the WWF – said in a joint statement.
The Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012, is the only international treaty that sets targets for limiting the fossil fuel pollution that causes the greenhouse effect.
The treaty has been crippled since it was abandoned in2001 by US, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions.
The corporate commitment to help save the planet comes amid a flurry of business and government initiatives to slow global warming, and was timed to coincide with the release of a major report by the UN Inter government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Saturday.
“Fighting climate change can provide business opportunities, and spur innovation and jobs,” said Hans Verolme, Director of the WWF’s Climate Programme.
The Climate Changers companies show that sustainable development” is not in consistent with profit, he said.

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Welcome to My blog, Natural Environment.

Let me introduce my self. I am M.Lokeswara Rao,from India working as civilservant belong to Indian Forest service.

My interest is Philataly, reading, traveling and match box colletion.

The prime aim of this blog is to tell about the recent happening to planet earth and create the awarenwss to save the planet earth especially from the buring issues like climate change.

I will be posting some of the impotant articles on climate change soon................

Till then.

M.Lokeswara Rao