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Efforts to manage carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by reducing emissions or sequestering carbon.

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• Carbon Mitigation Initiative - Website providing information about a joint research project of Princeton University, BP and the Ford Motor Company into impacts of climate change and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Includes research papers that can be downloaded.
  
• CO2 Capture&Storage - This website provides a collection of resources related to the capture and storage of CO2.
  
• Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) - U.S. DOE research aimed at enhancing carbon capture and long-term sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems.
  
• Business Gets Serious About Emissions - BusinessWeek Online special report about business and global warming.
  
• Carbon Capture and Storage - Carbon (dioxide) capture and storage (CCS) in geological structures is fast-emerging as a promising method for decoupling fossil fuel use and carbon emissions. This site provides information about the UKCCSC project.
  
• Algalabs - Developer of a process in which micro algae use carbon dioxide and produce both biodiesel and feedstock for animals.
  
• Planting Trees to Save Planet is Pointless, say Ecologists - This Guardian UK article discusses findings that most forests do not have an effect on global temperature.
  
• Eco Aid - Aims to reduce human induced climate change by promoting corporate, governmental and personal social responsibility through education and empowerment.
  
• Greenhouse Gas Technology Center - Investigating the performance of technologies to mitigate and monitor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  
• The GEO-SEQ Project - Describes U.S. public-private research and development on methods for capture and geologic sequestration of CO2.
  
• Carbon-Dioxide Sequestration in Geologic Media - Texas Bureau of Economic Geology describes its research initiatives on the potential to sequester carbon in saline geologic formations and abandoned oil/gas reservoirs.
  
• Environmental Synergy, Inc. - A service organization providing reforestation and carbon quantification services to corporate clients as a means to offset carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and promote sustainable forestry.
  
• Care Needed with Carbon Offsets - BBC article discusses the finding that the benefits that come from trees reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide can be outweighed by their capacity to trap heat near the ground.
  
• US EPA Methane Voluntary Programs - EPA methane and utility outreach programs are intended to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
  
• Support CO2 Free - organization that aims to make the World a better and greener place by promoting a CO2 free future and by providing guidance and help to investors and innovators.
  
• Lawrence Livermore National Labs - News Release - Models show growing more forests in temperate regions could contribute to global warming.
  
• Act on CO2 - UK Government campaign, with help and advice for consumers to help them reduce CO2 their emissions.
  
• U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory: 1990-2001 - A comprehensive assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and sinks in U.S. agriculture and forests. Provides extensive, in-depth emissions and sinks estimates for livestock, cropland, and forests, as well as energy consumption in livestock and cropland agri
  
• Sleipner CO2 project - Animation showing the separation process of CO2 and natural gas as used by Statoil prior to underground CO2 storage.
  
• MIT Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies - Background information and details of research projects.
  
• Land-Use Management for Carbon Sequestration - Study of the potential for sequestering carbon from alternative land-use management options in SubSaharan Africa developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
  
• Low Carbon Knowledge Transfer Network - Information about a KTN that acts as a national network connecting organisations such as universities and investors to form communities interested in exploiting low carbon and fuel cell technologies.
  
• The Gold Standard - An NGO-backed tool that generates premium carbon credits and promotes sustainable development. It is a source of information for all stakeholders involved in CDM/JI projects.
  
• The Royal Society: The Role of Land Carbon Sinks in Mitigating Global Climate Change - A report that highlights the considerable uncertainty in the scientific understanding of the causes, magnitude and permanence of the land carbon sink. The full report and a summary are available.
  
• DOE: Carbon Sequestration R&D - U.S. Department of Energy program of research and other efforts to develop mid- to long-term solutions for reducing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, including sequestration in oceans, geologic formations, and terrestrial ecosystems.
  
• Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership - The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership addresses CO2 emissions and seeks the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure needs for carbon capture, storage and sequestration, both terrestrial and geologic.
  
• Trends of Measured Climate Forcing Agents - Paper by Hansen and Sato (PNAS 2001;98:14778) makes the case for an increased focus on methane and aerosols in the short-term in order to mitigate climate change.
  
• The Carbon Trust - The Carbon Trust is an independent not for profit company set up by the UK Government with support from business to take the lead on low carbon technology and innovation in the UK.
  
• Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium - The MGSC will assess the potential for geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide in the deeply buried unminable coal seams, depleting oil or gas reservoirs, and brine-filled rock formations found in the Illinois Basin.
  
• What You Can Do: Go Carbon Neutral - The David Suzuki Foundation provides tips for becoming carbon neutral.
  
• CO2 Capture Project - Describes efforts by eight of the world's leading energy companies to reduce the cost of CO2 capture from combustion sources and to develop methods for safely storing carbon dioxide underground.
  
• CELB-Climate Change - Carbon offset projects in tropical forests with combined carbon, biodiversity and social benefits.
  
• ETV Greenhouse Gas Technologies - U.S. EPA and Southern Research Institute (SRI partnership provides independent verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and monitoring technologies.
  
• CO2 emissions - Listing of CO2 emissions by country compiled by the UN.
  
• How Coldplay's Green Hopes Died in the Arid Soil of India - Telegraph.co.uk article discusses the outcome of a carbon offset environmental initiative by the rock band Coldplay.
  
• The Carbon Fund - The Carbon Fund is financing and promoting the protection, restoration and enhancement of forests all over the world through carbon sequestration, an important tool in preventing global climate change.
  
• DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration - United States Department of Energy (DOE) view of techniques for storing carbon in the ocean.
  
• CarboEurope - A EU-funded research project designed to better understand, quantify and predict under current and future scenarios the carbon balance of Europe.
  
• Carbon Sequestration - Information about the US Department of Energy's portfolio of research and development programs into Carbon Sequestration.
  
• Safe Climate for Business - A website dedicated to helping business of all sizes to understand and take action on climate change.
  
• Carbon Neutral Digest - Weblog discussing matters related to carbon neutrality. Includes a rating of all carbon neutral providers, a discussion of offset projects and up to date news reports.
  
• Hydrogen Production With Carbon Sequestration - Research overview of the production of carbon sequestering fertilizer made during renewable hydrogen production.
  
• Siberia II - Project Website - Multinational study to demonstrate the viability of full carbon accounting on a regional basis using the environmental tools and systems available to us today and in the near future. Site provides news, data and other information.
  
• Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum - Information about the CSLF and its activities, including endorsed projects, papers and presentations.
  
• CO2nned - New Internationalist Magazine special issue on carbon offsets.
  
• BBC: Carbon Emissions Show Sharp Rise - The growth in global carbon dioxide emissions accelerated sharply around the year 2000, a new analysis shows.
  
• Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases - Information about research by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) into ocean sequestration of carbon dioxide.
  
• Greenspace Research - Description of a program that aims to reduce the carbon emission of buildings.
  
• GHC Protocol Initiative - Standards and guidance regarding corporate greenhouse gas accounting and reporting.
  
• CIRENE (Center of Initiative and Research on Energy and the Environment) - Information about syntheses and studies to solve problems of industrial partners regarding greenhouse gases (including taxation, permits for carbon trading, technical-economic studies, feasibility studies for capture and storage of CO2, forecasting studie
  
• Zero Emissions Research and Technology: A National Resource for Geologic Sequestration Science - ZERT is a research collaborative focused on understanding the basic science of underground (geologic) carbon dioxide storage to mitigate greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use and to develop technologies that can ensure the safety and reliability of that s
  
  

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