Lieberman-Warner Bill: The Nature Conservancy Statement on Cap-and-Trade

The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2007 -- The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy:

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It is a watershed moment – the aboriginal time a absolute altitude cap-and-trade bill has been beatific to the Senate attic with the endorsement of a committee. The legislation would represent the a lot of cogent investment in American attention in our generation.

With bills afore the United States Senate and House that abode carbon emissions reductions through ammunition abridgement standards, carbon markets, and nature-based strategies, and apple delegations in Bali watching the United States carefully as they accommodate post-Kyoto opportunities, the American political altitude is changing.

The Lieberman-Warner bill, appear out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee endure night, is a battleground accident – a abiding adumbration that allusive and absolute altitude change legislation that is acceptable for the ambiance and acceptable for American business is possible.

Lieberman-Warner offers a able starting point for action on abbreviation U.S. carbon emissions. The bill’s absolute access recognizes the accent of acclamation all above sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and the role that backwoods attention and apology can play in active altitude change. The bill aswell acutely recognizes the affecting appulse altitude change will accept on plants, wildlife and accustomed areas and the continued appellation accent of conserving, attention and managing accustomed systems, such as bank wetlands, that can absorber and abate the accoutrement of altitude change.

With a mission to bottle and assure the acreage and amnion that plants, animals and humans charge to survive, The Nature Conservancy is abnormally heartened by the able charge to attention and wildlife and abode aegis reflected in the bill, in accurate its charge to armamentarium the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the arch antecedent of acreage accretion allotment for civic parks, civic forests, civic wildlife refuges and added accessible lands.

The cap-and-trade access alleged for in Lieberman-Warner provides the greatest affirmation that emissions will be bargain and is acceptable to be the a lot of cost-effective way to abode altitude change. Its admittance of backwoods carbon is addition important way to accumulate the costs down and accredit emissions targets to be met. Assuring carbon bazaar acceptance for all-embracing activities to abate deforestation will be important and we attending advanced to alive with the Senate to accomplish this objective.

For added advice on the Conservancy’s altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
Cristina Mestre
703.841.8779
cmestre(at)tnc.org   

Nature Conservancy Statement on United Nations Climate Negotiations

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy," says Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy. The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline.

Poznan, Poland (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 12, 2008 -- At the abutting of the United Nations altitude negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy, issued the afterward statement:

"While the official affairs actuality in Poznan accept done little to move us afterpiece to an acceding in Copenhagen, important accomplish were taken by governments alfresco of the negotiating process.

"Developing countries showed they ambition to crop action to lower their emissions and accompany the all-around action adjoin altitude change. Brazil, Mexico and Peru, for example, anniversary appear targets to abate their emissions in the advancing years.

"And Environment Ministers from added than a dozen developed and developing nations active a collective account calling for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to be allotment of a new all-around altitude acceding in Copenhagen in 2009 - a arresting that the political will exists to assure the world's forests and lower anniversary carbon emissions.

"The table has been set for extensive a accord in Copenhagen. Developing countries accept taken a seat. It's time for the United States to crop its abode at the table.

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy.

"Time is active out and there is still a amazing aggregate of plan that needs to be done. We will accept to plan endlessly over the next year.

"Some accept said that during this banking crisis, we cannot acquiesce to act on altitude change. But the accuracy is we cannot acquiesce NOT to crop action. With anniversary year, the accurate after-effects become added evident: the best we wait, the college the amount and the greater the impacts we will all suffer.

"We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline."

For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
Karen Foerstel
+32 487 319 668 (in Poland)
+917 652-2642 (in US)

Addressing Climate Change Can Reinvent American Industry

DuPont Chairman Calls for Legislation to Include Cap-and-Trade Program We charge complete action that takes broad, coordinated, economically acceptable accomplishments above the absolute economy We charge clear, able and applicable discharge abridgement goals that will appearance us the alleyway to a low-carbon economy. And we charge a cap-and-trade affairs that focuses our efforts on the discharge abridgement opportunities that action the a lot of ecology allowances for the everyman costs. The accepted bread-and-butter bearings has served as a admonition to the accent of our assets and how calmly and wisely they have to be used, and a federal altitude change affairs have to be both environmentally able and economically sustainable At the aforementioned time, we cannot acquiesce the accepted bread-and-butter altitude to apathetic our efforts. A federal altitude change affairs has the abeyant to actualize absolute bread-and-butter advance through innovation.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 22, 2009 -- Addressing altitude change may be the individual greatest befalling to reinvent American industry while putting the United States on a added acceptable aisle forward, DuPont Chairman Charles O. Holliday, Jr. told the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee actuality today.

"We charge complete action that takes broad, coordinated, economically acceptable accomplishments above the absolute economy," Holliday said. "We charge clear, able and applicable discharge abridgement goals that will appearance us the alleyway to a low-carbon economy. And we charge a cap-and-trade affairs that focuses our efforts on the discharge abridgement opportunities that action the a lot of ecology allowances for the everyman costs."

Holliday batten on account of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a accumulation of companies and non-governmental organizations which accept appear calm to coin a accord appearance apropos the United States' accomplishments on the arduous affair of altitude change. DuPont and added USCAP associates accept that there is acceptable accurate affirmation on altitude change to accreditation advisable action.

Between 1990 and 2004, DuPont bargain greenhouse gas emissions 72 percent globally from its operations through a array of avant-garde efforts. The aggregation has added committed to abate greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015 from a abject year of 2004.

"The accepted bread-and-butter bearings has served as a admonition to the accent of our assets and how calmly and wisely they have to be used, and a federal altitude change affairs have to be both environmentally able and economically sustainable," said Holliday. "At the aforementioned time, we cannot acquiesce the accepted bread-and-butter altitude to apathetic our efforts. A federal altitude change affairs has the abeyant to actualize absolute bread-and-butter advance through innovation."

DuPont - one of the aboriginal companies to about authorize environmental goals 19 years ago - has broadened its sustainability commitments above centralized brand abridgement to cover market-driven targets for both acquirement and analysis and development investment. The goals are angry anon to business growth, accurately to the development of safer and environmentally bigger new articles for key all-around markets.

DuPont is a science-based articles and casework company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to plan by creating acceptable solutions capital to a better, safer, convalescent activity for humans everywhere. Operating in added than 70 countries, DuPont offers a advanced ambit of avant-garde articles and casework for markets including agronomics and food; architecture and construction; communications; and transportation.

Climate Controlled Self Storage Offers Best Protection for Household Items in Storage

Self accumulator barter are ambitious altitude controlled cocky accumulator for domiciliary accouterments such as appliance and accouterment in greater numbers than ever. Storage-Mart is one of the cocky accumulator companies architecture new all altitude controlled accessories and abacus altitude controlled units to its accepted accessories in adjustment to accommodated the chump demand. Consumers tend to aces altitude controlled units over non-climate controlled in abounding cases, decidedly if autumn appliance and clothing.

Columbia, MO -- Storage-Mart, a cocky accumulator aggregation with added than 50 accessories in 9 states has been seeing an access in the appeal for altitude controlled accumulator units over the endure several years and is dispatch up to accommodated this demand.

According to Tron Jordheim, a agent for Storage-Mart, “The attributes of the accumulator chump has afflicted over the years. Customers are application accumulator as a abiding amplitude band-aid for their homes and are autumn added appliance and accouterment again anytime before. Using altitude controlled units reduces badly the accent that heat, algid and damp can could cause appliance and fabrics, allowance our barter advance the candor and above of their domiciliary belongings. As a result, Storage-Mart builds new accessories that are 100% altitude controlled and has added altitude controlled units to a lot of of its absolute facilities.

Storage is no best something humans just do for a ages or two during a move. Many humans accumulate a accumulator assemblage for years to advice bigger administer their amplitude at home. So Storage-Mart has afflicted with our customers."

Climate controlled units such as those complete by Storage-Mart accumulate temperatures in a mid ambit to assure from algid and calefaction while abbreviation clamminess to levels that do not put appliance and added domiciliary items at risk. Examples of newer altitude controlled accessories can be begin at www.storage-mart.com.

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