"Mercury deposition and contamination is widespread and well documented, and it continues to be a public-health concern for certain sectors of the global human population in both developed and developing countries. This edited volume focuses on integrating the diverse sciences i…
Pollution : Causes, Effects and Control is the fourth edition of a best-selling introductory level book dealing with chemical and radioactive pollution in its broadest sense. The scope of the book ranges from the sources of pollutants and their environmental behaviour, to their …
State and trends of the carbon market-2004
State and trends of the carbon market 2004
"This study describes the status of the emerging carbon market, as of May 2004. The carbon market encompasses trades of greenhouse gas emission allowances (under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme), and project-based transactions whereby a buyer participates in the financing of a p…
State and trends of the carbon market 2004
"This study finds that the carbon market is growing steadily. A total of 64 million metric tones of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO[subscript 2]e) has been exchanged through projects from January to May 2004, nearly as much as during the whole year 2003 (78 million). Secondly, th…
"China's meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories--every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang's raging waters were on t…
« The conventional solvents used in chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and separation processes represent a great challenge to green chemistry because of their toxicity and flammability. Since the beginning of “the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry” in 1998, a general effort ha…
