Carbon has a bad name.
But carbon — the element — is not the enemy. Climate change is the result of breakdowns in the carbon cycle caused by us: it is a design failure. Anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere make airborne carbon a material in the wrong place, at the wrong dose and for the wrong duration.
Rather than declare war on carbon emissions, we can work with carbon in all its forms. To enable a new relationship with carbon, I propose a new language — living, durable and fugitive — to define ways in which carbon can be used safely, productively and profitably. Aspirational and clear, it signals positive intentions, enjoining us to do more good rather than simply be less bad.
It is easy to lose one’s way in the climate conversation. Few of the terms are clearly defined or understood. Take ‘carbon neutral’. The European Union considers electricity generated by burning wood as carbon neutral — as if it releases no CO2 at all. Their carbon neutrality relies problematically on the growth and replacement of forests that will demand decades to centuries of committed management.
Such terms highlight a confusion about the qualities and value of CO2. In the United States, the gas is classified as a commodity by the Bureau of Land Management, a pollutant by the Environmental Protection Agency and as a financial instrument by the Chicago Climate Exchange.
A new language of carbon recognizes the material and quality of carbon so that we can imagine and implement new ways forward. It identifies three categories of carbon — living, durable and fugitive — and a characteristic of a subset of the three, called working carbon. It also identifies three strategies related to carbon management and climate change — carbon positive, carbon neutral and carbon negative.
Whether the recent surge in copper prices suddenly make copper terminal companies by surprise? SMM It is understood that the cost of cable companies uplift caused some corporate earnings compressed, and some intermediate processors of copper rod business has therefore been liquidated, even more shocking is that cable companies will then sell the finished product back to the copper plant. But overall, as companies adopted various countermeasures, cable companies have been hit much.
Copper prices rose birth grimace
1, the cable and then sell the finished stripping copper Enterprises:
It SMM understood that, because copper prices pulled up sharply, causing some cable companies produce finished goods inventory increase, leading cable companies will be part of the industry appears finished and then sold to scrap copper wire stripping corporate profits thus obtained more than direct sales of finished .
2, copper rod business is breach of contract rate rise
Due to the recent rally in copper cable companies make terminal under more cost pressure, especially the part of the cable manufacturer's product prices are mostly locked in advance.There are copper rods companies said that cable companies have recently when its breach of contract, an adverse effect on the part of the copper rod business. But it is understood, because the maintenance of long-term credit transactions, default minority enterprises.
3, refined copper scrap spreads widening use ratio rises
In addition, due to the recent copper prices pulled, refined copper spreads widening sharply, according to SMM statistics, November 15 the average price of refined copper spreads up to 3371 yuan / ton, for the January 2011 highs.
Section copper rod manufacturers use raw materials, used in a proportion of copper has increased, partly refined copper rod production companies, said copper rod-making enterprises increased their market share in the near future have a certain impact.