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Business Week
December 15, 2008

Algeria’s Carbon-Capture Experiment
A venture by Algeria’s Sonatrach, BP, and
Norway’s Statoil to strip CO2 out of natural gas
and store it underground could help cut emissions

By Stanley Reed

About 700 miles south of Algiers, the capital of
Algeria, a monumental assemblage of pipes and
cylinders rises from the bleak Sahara Desert. Not
far away is a small airstrip and helicopter pad.
And in a compound down the road, surrounded by a
thick stand of trees to break the whistling
winds, there are dormitories, tennis courts, even
a mess hall, where a crew of chefs whips up
hearty meals including lobster pie and potato
tarts for several hundred people.

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“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), … has suggested greenhouse gas emission
cuts … to avoid a 2°Celsius increase in global
temperature. …. An increase of this magnitude
is expected to destroy 30 percent to 40 percent
of all known species, generate bigger, fiercer
and more frequent heat waves and droughts, and
more intense weather events like floods and
cyclones.”
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reflect the views of the United Nations or its
agencies.

JOHANNESBURG, 15 December 2008 (IRIN) – Maldives,
an archipelago off the southeastern coast of
India, told the climate change conference in
Poznan, Poland, that even a 2°C rise in
temperature would take the world into the “danger
zone” of irreversible climate change.

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Subject: The 300-350 Show: Forests and Biofuels
From:    “Phil England” <phil@switch-off.co.uk>
Date:    Fri, December 12, 2008 3:47 pm
To:      phil@switch-off.co.uk
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Dear Friends,

THE 300-350 SHOW: Forests and Biofuels

We continue our coverage of the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland where the
big issue on the table is “how to reduce emissions from deforestation”? The
big push from investors is to incorporate forests into the carbon markets,
but this approach is riddled with problems. Friends of the Earth
International has warned that this would “create the climate regime’s
biggest ever loophole.” We speak to Miguel Lovera, chair of the Global
Forest Coalition about his concerns and his proposals for an alternative way
forward.

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By Evo Morales, International Journal of Socialist Renewal
December 15, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/112765/

Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years.

Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately 60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth suffer[1]; the extinction of animal and plant species; and the spread of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases.

One of the most tragic consequences of the climate change is that some nations and territories are the condemned to disappear by the increase of the sea level.

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