|
Surge in Carbon Levels Shows Vegetation Struggling to Cope |
|
Friday, 11 May 2007 |
|
(The Guardian) -- Climate change may have passed a key tipping point that could mean
temperatures rising more quickly than predicted and it being harder to
tackle global warming, research suggests.
|
|
|
Friday, 11 May 2007 |
|
(NY Times) -- Amid steadily increasing carbon emissions, and a federal government
hesitant to take the lead on climate legislation, 10 states have joined
to create the first mandatory carbon cap-and-trade program in the
United States. They aim to reduce emissions from power plants by 10
percent in 10 years.
|
|
|
The Schwarzenegger-Obama Connection |
|
Monday, 07 May 2007 |
|
(L.A. Times) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office sent out a press release today
touting a global warming plan by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat.
The presidential candidate from Illinois has introduce a national
carbon-reduction initiative based on Schwarzenegger's own efforts in California unveiled in January.
|
|
|
Global Carbon Trading Market Triples to £15bn |
|
Friday, 04 May 2007 |
|
(Guardian Unlimited) -- The global market in carbon trading tripled last year to $30bn (£15bn)
but its role in the battle against climate change could be hit by
worries about the effectiveness of unregulated carbon offset projects,
the World Bank warned yesterday.
|
|
|
UN Facing a Backlash on Emissions Action Plan |
|
Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
|
(The Observer) -- The world's leading climate change experts will this week outline
highly controversial plans to save the world from global warming. Their
proposals - which include a major expansion in nuclear power, the use
of GM crops to boost biofuel production, and reliance on unproven
technologies, including the underground storage of carbon dioxide -
will put the UN's climate group on a collision course with a host of
environmental groups.
|
|
|
Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green? |
|
Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
|
(NY TImes) -- The rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive.
|
|
|
Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol |
|
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
|
SAN FRANCISCO (NY Times) -- A New Zealand company said Monday that it had
secured financing from an investor in Silicon Valley to produce ethanol
from an untapped source — carbon monoxide gas.
|
|
|
How to Live a Greener Life |
|
Monday, 16 April 2007 |
|
(Newsweek) -- A few ways to help reduce the billions of metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions created yearly by the U.S.
|
|
|
Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough |
|
Monday, 09 April 2007 |
|
(Newsweek) -- Like many people who are scrambling for ways to
stave off climate disaster, Klaus Lackner is thinking trees. But not
the kind with green leaves and roots, and certainly not the sweet
little specimens that "carbon offset" purveyors hawk as a way to
balance out the carbon dioxide emitted when you tool around town in a
Hummer. Lackner, a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, is
helping to design a synthetic tree.
|
|
|
Detroit Decides to Help Shape, Not Resist, Regulation of Emissions |
|
Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
|
(NY Times) -- The New York International Auto Show, which opened to the public
yesterday, is a picture of an industry with a cloud over its head.
|
|
|
Smoke Alarm: EU Shows Carbon Trading Is Not Cutting Emissions |
|
Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
|
(The Guardian) -- Brussels lambasted the US and Australia yesterday for their inaction in
cutting carbon dioxide emissions and stressed Europe's leading role in
the battle against global warming. "Only EU leadership can break this
impasse on a global agreement [post-Kyoto] to overcome climate change,"
Stavros Dimas, the EU's environment commissioner, told scientists from
the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change. The body is due to
publish a report this week in Brussels on the impact of global warming.
|
|
|
Sustainable Architecture Can Help Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions |
|
Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
|
(Washington Post) -- Carbon dioxide is in the air like never before, but not just as
measurable parts per million in the earth's atmosphere. Increasingly
the subject of everyday conversation and cultural discourse, rising CO2
emissions are seen by many as no less a threat than terrorism,
uncontrolled immigration, avian flu or escalating gasoline prices.
|
|
|
European Union's Climate Change Goals Will Cost €1 Trillion |
|
Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
|
(The Guardian) -- The EU's new climate change goals will cost up to €1.1 trillion
(£747bn) to implement over the next 14 years, according to a new study.
|
|
|
UK Greenhouse Emissions Show Rise |
|
Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
|
(BBC News) -- The UK's carbon emissions rose by 1.25% last year,
according to provisional government data, but Britain remains on course
to meet its Kyoto Protocol goal.
|
|
|
New Stern Climate Warning |
|
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
|
(The Age) -- Sir Nicholas Stern, the author of the world's most comprehensive
study of the economic impact of climate change, says fresh research
into the planet's carbon sink suggests his report probably
underestimated the potential damages.
|
|
|
China Seen Topping U.S. Carbon Emissions in 2007 |
|
Friday, 23 March 2007 |
|
BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) -- China is on course to overtake
the United States this year as the world's biggest carbon
emitter, estimates based on Chinese energy data show,
potentially pressuring Beijing to take more action on climate
change.
|
|
|
Utility and Sierra Club Deal Aims to Cut Carbon Dioxide |
|
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
|
WASHINGTON (NY Times) -- A Midwest electric company and the Sierra Club
announced a deal on Monday under which the environmental group will
drop its complaints against a coal plant, and the utility, Kansas City
Power and Light, will take steps to cut carbon dioxide output by the
amount that a new plant will produce.
|
|
|
£25 Fridge Gadget Could Slash Greenhouse Emissions |
|
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
|
(Guardian Unlimited) -- It is made of wax, is barely three inches across and comes in any
colour you like, as long as it's black. And it could save more
greenhouse gas emissions than taxes on gas guzzling cars, low energy
light bulbs and wind turbines on houses combined. It is the e-cube, and
it is coming soon to a fridge near you.
|
|
|
Investors Managing $4 Trillion Call on Congress to Tackle Global Climate Change |
|
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
|
(PR-inside.com) -- For the first time, dozens of
institutional investors managing $4 trillion in assets today called on
U.S. lawmakers to enact strong federal legislation to curb the
pollution causing global climate change. Joined by a dozen leading U.S.
companies, the investor group outlined the business and economic
rationale for climate action as they called for a national policy that
reduces greenhouse gas emissions consistent with targets scientists say
are needed to avoid the dangerous impacts of global warming.
|
|
|
Green Energy Enthusiasts Are Also Betting on Fossil Fuels |
|
Friday, 16 March 2007 |
|
(NY Times) -- Silicon Valley’s technology investors have taken to the ramparts,
threatening to tear down the oil and gas industries’ dominance with
innovations that use ethanol, solar and wind.
|
|
|
In a Test of Capturing Carbon Dioxide, Perhaps a Way to Temper Global Warming |
|
Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
|
WASHINGTON (NY Times) -- American Electric Power, a major electric
utility, is planning the largest demonstration yet of capturing carbon
dioxide from a coal-fired power plant and pumping it deep underground.
|
|
|
'Binding' Carbon Targets Proposed |
|
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
|
(BBC News) -- Britain could become the first country to set legally
binding carbon reduction targets under plans unveiled by Environment
Secretary David Miliband.
|
|
|
Carmakers Go Green - on Their Terms |
|
Monday, 12 March 2007 |
|
(Guardian Unlimited) -- The car industry stepped up pressure on the EU yesterday to water down
plans for compulsory limits on CO2 emissions from all new cars as
manufacturers sought to out-do each other with a futuristic array of
new green technologies and fuels.
|
|
|
High-Earning Men Blamed over Climate Changing Emissions |
|
Monday, 12 March 2007 |
|
(Guardian Unlimited) -- Working men earning more than £40,000 a year are responsible for the
lion's share of climate change emissions from personal travel,
according to a Oxford University survey. It found that one in five
people are responsible for 61% of climate change emissions from private
transport and that most of these are well-off men.
|
|
|
EU Agrees Renewable Energy Target |
|
Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
|
(BBC News) -- European Union leaders have agreed to adopt a binding
target on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power,
officials say.
|
|
|
Climate Talks 'Key Moment' for EU |
|
Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
|
(BBC News) -- The next few days could be a "defining moment for the
EU" as its leaders consider tough new emissions targets, the EU
Commission president says.
|
|
|
Manifesto for future of European Emissions Trading launched |
|
Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
|
(egov) Business, government and the environmental lobby have today joined
forces and called on European industry and governments to work together
to secure a sound footing for the future of the carbon trading market.
The UK Manifesto on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, published today,
has been signed by over 40 businesses and NGOs and sets out how the UK
wants to see the emissions trading scheme develop after 2012. The
publication comes ahead of this week's meeting of EU heads of state in
Brussels where climate change will feature high on the agenda.
|
|
|
Academic proposes carbon credit system for farmers |
|
Monday, 05 March 2007 |
( ABC NewsOnline) -- An Australian National University ecologist says farmers should be able to earn carbon credits for preserving bushland and planting trees and auction their credits on a system like eBay.
|
|
|
In Alaska’s Far North, Two Cultures Collide |
|
Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
|
BARROW, Alaska
((NYT)— Each summer and fall, the Inupiat, natives of Alaska’s arid north
coast, take their sealskin boats and gun-fired harpoons and go whale
hunting. Kills are celebrated throughout villages as whaling captains
share their catch with relatives and neighbors. Muktuk, or raw whale
skin and blubber, is a prized delicacy.
|
|
|
Trucks Power China’s Economy, at a Suffocating Cost |
|
Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
|
GUANGZHOU, China (NYT ) — Every night, columns of hulking blue and red freight
trucks invade China’s major cities with a reverberating roar of engines
and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims headlights.
|
|
