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12/11/2008:

Emissions trading: companies to receive certificates (77/2008)

Pressure to act mounts on inefficient power stations

The second phase of emissions trading, scheduled to run from 2008 to 2012, is beginning: as of now, certificates for 2008 are available to companies. “The pressure to act on implementing more climate protection measures is mounting inasmuch as operators of inefficient lignite power stations will in some cases receive up to 50 per cent fewer certificates,” says Dr. Thomas Holzmann, Vice President of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA).
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05/11/2008:

Safe and ecologically just travel to Antarctica (74/2008)

New visitors guide and flyer for cruise ship tourists

Fascinating Antarctica: Ever more people are attracted to the austral summer in the vast expanses of the icy continent, to penguins, seals and whales. There were more than 46,000 visitors in last year’s travel season alone. There was a fivefold jump in visitor numbers from 1992 to 2008, making it impossible to avoid negative impact on the environment. Nevertheless, any visitor to the South Pole, whether tourist, researcher, journalist or member of a film crew, needs valid authorisation, for which the Federal Environment (UBA) Agency is the issuing authority for all German citizens. Yet preserving the nativeness and intactness of the continent requires practical binding guidelines of behaviour.
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04/11/2008:

As concerns the ‘climate neutral’ notion: Preventing greenhouse gases is better than offsetting them (73/2008)

Federal Environment Agency publishes guide on voluntary compensation for greenhouse gases

Offers to compensate for greenhouse gases voluntarily abound: whether it be the ‘climate neutral air trip’ or the ‘climate neutral bouquet of flowers’, everything is possible. The idea is simple, namely to compensate for the climate gas emissions produced by products or services by saving the same amount somewhere else. Making sense of all these new possibilities is possible thanks to a new guide by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) which includes a consumer check list.
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