Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch? 

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Climate Crunch, the new environmental news network site will provide new and views from around the internet.  Gathering it’s content from new outlets, blogs, videos it provides a unique view of current affairs and opinions from across the world regarding the environment and climate change.
Two new environmental blogs will be launched shortly to enhance the [...]

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British consumers are likely to cut spending on expensive fair trade and organic items in response to the credit crunch amid widespread dissatisfaction over the variety of green products offered by retailers, new research has warned.
Almost half of 4,000 consumers questioned said they were unwilling or unable to pay more for environmentally sustainable food and [...]

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Congress has begun work on an economic stimulus package that could cost as much as $1 trillion and will likely include tax incentives to encourage investment in green technologies. Many people believe “green jobs” are an important part of rebuilding the economy, but not everyone is convinced.
In his push to win the presidency, Barack Obama [...]

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The Lib Dems are offering a “sense of hope and direction” for people suffering in the current economic climate, Nick Clegg has said.
On the first anniversary of his election as leader, Mr Clegg said his party had taken the lead on the economy and other key issues affecting the UK.
He is outlining plans to scrap [...]

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In these days of financial meltdown, green jobs, as they are labelled, ensure both job security and energy security. They are the portals to the new nature-dependent, climate-sustaining and pro-nature economic order. The fossil fuel, carbon emission and pollution-driven energy economy will have to give way to new way of power generation, consumption and maintenance. [...]

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For all the support that the presidential candidates are expressing for renewable energy, alternative energies like wind and solar are facing big new challenges because of the credit freeze and the plunge in oil and natural gas prices.
Shares of alternative energy companies have fallen even more sharply than the rest of the stock market in [...]

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Gordon Brown’s comments in support of the EU climate change agenda have been welcomed by environmentalists. The environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth.warned that failure to tackle climate change could lead to environmental and economic catastrophe.
Europe’s climate change plans commit the bloc to cutting its emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 and 30 [...]

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Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries’ efforts to create “green growth” industries by revamping the financial system behind them, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday.
But that would depend on governments helping poor countries — who are key to saving the planet’s ecology — tackle their [...]

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Shares in companies specializing in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, including energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, have tumbled faster than wider markets this year, indices showed.
“It would be easy to blame the credit crunch, which certainly has made it more difficult for project developers in wind and solar to raise debt finance,” said Michael Liebreich, [...]

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