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...would you like to get in on the action? National cap and trade may be reserved for the big players, but U.S. carbon emissions are made up of a billion individual decisions - including yours - every day: how much we drive, how much electricity we use, what we eat. Now a new website called My Emissions Exchange promises to bring the carbon market to your front yard. If you can drastically reduce the electricity you use in your home, the site will certify your personal emissions reductions and then broker those credits to companies looking to burnish their green reputations...
Reilly and Herrgesell acknowledge that the site is still in its early stages and will need refinement. Over the next two years, they're hoping to get at least 1 million members and establish the site as a clearinghouse for information on energy efficiency. The future of cap and trade will be decided in Congress, not on the Internet - but My Emissions Exchange does give a little power to the people, and that's not a bad thing. "We're realistic about the challenges ahead of us," says Herrgesell. "But I think we can make this market work...
...would still require rich, developed nations like the U.S. to make the sharpest emissions cuts, largely because they have the most well-off people and the biggest individual carbon emitters. And the study doesn't take into account the carbon that is embedded in imports and exports in global trade. But big developing nations like China - with its rising middle class - won't be let off the hook either. "We think this represents a nice path for distributing the share of the work of cutting emissions between countries," says Chakravarty. The Copenhagen negotiations will be hard fought, but the Princeton...
...necessary to understand the place and role of folk crafts in the general construction [of the market]," said Viktor Khristenko, head of the Industry and Trade Ministry, in March. As orders have started to dry up, the production of handicrafts by registered companies in the period between January and May fell 19% compared with the same period last year, dropping from $35.2 million worth of goods to $28.5 million, according to the Federal State Statistics Service. Meanwhile, the number of tourists, who make up the bulk of buyers of Russian handicrafts, has dipped drastically, with 25% fewer visitors arriving...
...Russia's expanding trade with Burma includes an agreement to sell the poverty-stricken nation a nuclear research reactor, and the regime has also been bolstering ties with North Korea, receiving arms shipments from its sister Asian pariah state, and employing North Korean engineers to build massive underground bunkers at its fortress-like capital of Naypyidaw...