Word: krupp
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...There are a whole series of things that demonstrate that people want to act and want their government to act," says Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense. Krupp and others believe that we should probably accept that it's too late to prevent CO2 concentrations from climbing to 450 p.p.m. (or 70 p.p.m. higher than where they are now). From there, however, we should be able to stabilize them and start to dial them back down...
...Fred Krupp wants to do something about the carbon dioxide that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks. But why is the president of Environmental Defense looking for solutions in tropical rain forests and Kansas cornfields? Because forests and fields pull greenhouse gases from the air. So Krupp, 52, went to Brazil to urge protection of the Amazon basin and to Kansas to promote no-till farming. Plowing fields releases CO2; if farmers plant seeds without tilling, three-quarters of a metric ton of carbon per acre could be stored every year...
...sale of permits to release specified amounts of carbon. Companies having trouble cutting emissions could buy allowances from firms that have unused permits. Or they could pay farmers to store carbon and developing nations to preserve forests. The idea comes from a concept developed by Environmental Defense when Krupp helped draft the 1990 Clean Air Act. It set up a trading system to control sulfur dioxide. Krupp believes similar financial incentives could slow global warming. "Once you put a value on carbon reductions," he says, "you make winners out of innovators. You offer a pot of gold." --By Charles Alexander...
...states. The report calls for countries to either follow Finland’s example of raising public funding to meet increased educational demand, or copy the U.S. model where universities rely heavily on private tuition. “The [European Union] universities are in crisis,” said Krupp Foundation professor of European studies, Peter A. Hall. He said that while enrollment has risen in many European universities, the increase in the student body has not been matched with higher funding. “French or German universities rely heavily on public funding as do all university systems...
...disappointed that the government has elected to continue its prosecution of our clients, even on the limited charge that remains,” Krupp said in his statement. “Drs. Zhu and Kimbara are confident that once the first facts are heard, it will be clear that they have not done anything wrong and no crime was committed...