National Grid managers to earn bonuses for hitting carbon and financial targets, an initiative which may spread throughout industry and Whitehall Electricity pylons in Suffolk. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian Bonuses are wrong, right? If our journey over the economic precipice has taught us anything, it is that bonus schemes promote reckless risk taking, create perverse incentives and breed resentment. Your financial reward is your salary, the bonus is keeping your job. Or was it the scale and structure of the turbo-charged bonuses given to incompetent bankers that created the...
INTERVIEW: Taiwan can learn from efforts abroad to cut carbon emissions: Carbon Trust
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
Taipei Times (TT): One of the aims of your organization is to pursue a low-carbon economy by assisting in the development of low-carbon businesses. How does this work? Robin Dickinson: First, [we] help businesses become...
'To save carbon, invest in carbon'
The Hindu
The Hindu
Staff Reporter Bangalore: To save carbon, we need to invest in carbon; that is one of the greatest paradoxes, said Brice Lalonde, Special Ambassador of France for Climate Change....
Solar system 'on fire' burned up earth's carbon
Zeenews
Zeenews
Washington: In a discovery that may solve millions of year-old mystery behind earth's carbon-deficiency, a new research found that fire sweeping through the inner solar system had burned up much of the carbon from the...
Carbon deficit on Earth tied to fire in Solar System
The Times of India
The Times of India
WASHINGTON: In a discovery that may solve millions of year-old mystery behind Earth’s carbon-deficiency, a new research found that fire sweeping through the inner solar system had burned up much of the carbon from the...
Solar system 'on fire' burned up earth's carbon: Researchers
Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Washington, Jan 20, (PTI): In a discovery that may solve millions of year-old mystery behind earth's carbon-deficiency, a new research found that fire sweeping through the inner solar system had burned up much of the...
Fire sweeping through inner solar system may have burned up Earth's carbon
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
London, January 20 (ANI): Scientists have attributed the mysterious carbon deficit on our planet to fire sweeping through the inner solar system that may have scorched away much of the carbon from Earth and the other...
Reportlinker Adds Fluoro Ethylene Carbonate (CAS 114435-02-8) Market Research Report - December 2009
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Black carbon a significant factor in melting of Himalayan glaciers
Newsvine
Newsvine
ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2010) — The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have...
India repeats carbon goals for climate accord
Independent online (SA)
Independent online (SA)
New Delhi - India has reiterated a goal of slowing the rise of its carbon emissions by 2020 as part of pledges due by Sunday under a "Copenhagen Accord" to fight climate change. Many other nations have also reiterated...
Call to win public support for low carbon homes
Building
Building
Report highlights homeowners' scepticism of green developments and unwillingness to pay for sustainable features The Zero Carbon Hub and Energy Saving Trust is calling for a pan-industry marketing plan to promote zero...
Black carbon from India contributing in melting of Himalayan glaciers
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that airborne black carbon aerosols from India are a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the Himalayan glaciers. Lawrence...

