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Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown.

Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level
rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of
the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C… Continue

Developing countries could in future earn money from reducing emissions by protecting oceans and marine ecosystems, a top U.N official said on Thursday.

Sea grasses, mangroves and salt marshes naturally store huge amounts of carbon but this is released as greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide, when wetlands are dr… Continue

The global carbon market will be worth €121 billion ($170bn) in 2010, up 33% on last year, according to a recent report by Point Carbon, the leading independent provider of market intelligence, news, analysis, forecasting and advisory services for energy and environmental markets. The report, Outlook 2010 and beyond, also predicts that traded volumes will increase be only 5% on 2009, to a total of 8.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Global carbon market worth €121bn in… Continue

The monitoring network which is expected to grow initially focus on pinpointing the sources and concentrations of methane, potent contributor to climate change. The California plan is early example of the kind of system that may be needed in many places as countries develop plans to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases.

While monitoring stations around the globe already detect carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases, they are deliberately placed in remote locations and… Continue