June 10, 2009  
 
 
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Climate

The Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocol provides guidance for developing urban tree planting and stewardship projects that can be registered as carbon offsets. The protocol establishes eligibility rules, methods to calculate reductions, performance-monitoring instructions and procedures for reporting project information. The protocol applies to tree planting projects on urban landscapes within municipalities, educational campuses, and utility service areas.

 

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Students who are the best informed about environmental science and the geosciences are also the most realistic about the environmental difficulties facing the world over the next 20 years, new research has found. But students who are least informed are the most wildly optimistic that things will improve.

 

     
 
   
 
 

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