Despite economic meltdown, carbon emissions keep rising
The global financial crisis might have put the brakes to rising carbon dioxide emissions, but it only slowed them down rather than stopping them. In fact, fossil fuel-related carbon emissions rose by 2.2 per cent between 2007... [read full story]
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