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The ideas include: a giant sunshade in space to filter out the sun’s rays and help cool us down; forests of artificial trees that would breath in carbon dioxide and stop the green house effect and a fleet futuristic yachts that will shoot salt water into the clouds thickening them and cooling the planet.

Each project calls for construction of a covered in-ground anaerobic reactor to convert animal waste into biogas, an energy source that can be used to generate clean electricity on the sites.Eighteen of the 22 projects, planned in the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz, were developed by EcoSecurities in conjunction with Cargill and Granjas Carroll de Mexico (GCM).

Combined, the projects have the potential to generate over 131,000 Certificates of Emission Reduction (CERs – one CER represents 1 tonne) per year : :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::The CDM is a mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol which allows industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (so-called Annex 1 countries) to invest in emission reducing projects in developing countries and count them towards their Kyoto targets.British-based EcoSecurities, which develops and trades carbon credits, is pushing to boost its generation of carbon credits.

We are awaiting more details, but some elements of the document have been :China will grant subsidies to bioenergy-producing companies when international crude oil prices fall below the green alternative’s production cost, but only if the lower price lasts for a long period of time.The subsidy-guarantee will ensure the sound development of biofuels and attract more investments in the sector.Through a series of measures, unused land in mountainous areas will be made available and utilized for planting biofuel feedstocks, mainly sweet sorghum, corn and sweet potato.Technological and research developments that promise to find wide applications in the sector, such as research into cellulosic ethanol or the development of new bioconversion technologies, will also be financially supported by a myriad of fiscal and other measures.China has set itself the goal of increasing the proportion of renewable energy consumption to ten percent of the country’s total energy consumption by 2010, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

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