North America will map carbon-intensive industries

At the North American Leaders' Summit last week, a new type of atlas was unveiled. The "North American Carbon Atlas" will pinpoint carbon-intensive industries and locate underground sites for carbon capture and storage in the US, Canada and Mexico. The partnership will also explore ways to collaborate on research, development and demonstration. "It will be important for the database to follow changes from year to year," says Diana Liverman of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford according to the New Scientist. If the project is well done, it could be the basis for carbon trading, she adds